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IDP Smart 51 Plastic ID Card Printer
- Smart 51 single or dual side printing
- Printer onto CR80 blank cards (credit card size)
- Print cost including card: 22p per card single side print or 27p dual
- 5 year warranty (3 years on printer head)
- 300dpi with edge-to-edge printing
- Input hopper 100 cards / 200 cards with cover open
- Output stacker 40 cards (100 card option available)
- Print speed seconds per card: single side, colour 17 & mono 5 / Dual 22 (YMCKOK ribbon)
- Click here to view the Smart 51 brochure.

Smart 51 is the latest card printer offering from IDP and is aimed at medium to high card printing volumes, so if you're planning to issue over 1000 printed plastic cards per year then this printer will be suitable. Prints edge to edge colour professional looking photo membership cards, staff ID cards, loyalty cards.
It's an impressive dye-sublimation printer, printing10% faster than the previous Smart 50 model. IDP's enhanced FINE™ Imaging Technology ensures a high quality print in glorious colour and ideal if you are planning to print barcodes or QR codes.
The printer is designed to fit neatly on an office desk. Dimensions are: width 16.5 cm, length 39 cm and height 21 cm.
IDP have created a fast printer, the Smart 51 will print one single sided colour card every 17 seconds and a monochrome every 5 seconds, so in an average day you could easily rattle off around 1400 colour cards or 5000 monochrome. If you are looking to print both sides of the card then the dual side YMCKOK ribbon will print colour front and black reverse at 22 seconds per card.
The output stacker will holds 40 cards, a100 card stacker is available so please give us a call if you require this. The input hopper holds an impressive 200 cards with the lid open and 100 with it closed.
When ordering there are many options allowing you to tailor the printer and consumable order to your specific needs. We make ordering easy, then send you everything in one delivery!
Note: no ribbon is supplied with the printer so please order one.
Click here to view the Smart 51 brochure.
The Smart 51 printer comes supplied with Easybadge Lite card printing software, developed to increase the speed and ease of plastic card printing. It's the only card printing software that combines with an App to enable the easy collection of data on the move. This means that lugging a camera and laptop around becomes a thing of the past. The App allows you to capture photos and data then sync with the main database.
Easybadge can be downloaded onto a PC and all andriod devices. It is not currently compatible with a Mac but the App can be downloaded onto an iPhone (not an iPad). So why not download the App from the App Store today and trial it for free!
Easybadge Lite stores up to 100 records in the database, after that a record is deleted as another is stored. If you need to store more then please upgrade to Easybadge Professional when ordering. If you use a Mac please order Cardpresso.
You can download EasyBadge software to trial for free here:
https://www.easybadge.com/download
To view the full range of Smart printers please click here.
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