NBS imagemaster IMX2 & IMX2+ ID Card Printers Brochure

The New Generation of High-Speed Plastic Card Printing

The fastest high-quality printer on the market today, the ImageMaster¿ IMX2 monochrome thermal printer allows you to personalize cards for customers, clients and employees, with outstanding speed and reliability.

Depending on card layout, the single-sided IMX2 prints up to 1800 cards per hour, and the dual-sided IMX2+ prints up to 800 cards per hour. Designed to produce large quantities of cards reliably, consistently and without problems, ImageMaster IMX2 printers are ideal for membership, loyalty and telephone card applications in bureau, gaming and leisure environments.

ImageMaster IMX2 printers offer many unique capabilities and options. They deliver cost-saving features such as the ability to automatically use the minimum amount of ribbon needed to personalize a card. Compatible with a variety of card thickness and types, these printers boast the optional ability to handle clear cards, encode magnetic stripe cards and personalize smart cards. The printers feature a sophisticated cleaning system to maintain a high printing standard, and add-ons include a carousel for multiple card types. A full range of different color ribbons is supplied by NBS, and cost-saving narrow ribbons are also available if required.

ImageMaster IMX2 printers support IP and Ethernet connectivity. By eliminating the need for print servers and interface boxes, the printers provide an extremely low cost of ownership. They come complete with NBS

GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Fast, monochrome printing¿up to 1800 single-sided cards, or up to 800 double-sided cards per hour, depending on card layout
• 300 dots per inch (11.8 dots per mm) resolution
• Supports both internally generated layouts using ASCII text fields from host computer, or full Microsoft Windows® compatibility with Windows XP and Windows 2000 drivers
• Keyboard for manual data entry
• Supplied with NBS Conquest® software, a user-friendly, Windows card design and production application, ideal for batch issuance
• Two-line, 40-character LCD
• Password protection in operator and supervisor modes
• Auto-feed input hopper (200-card capacity)
• Auto-unload stacker (200-card capacity)
• Two production counters, one resettable
• Automatic card cleaning mechanism with user configurable cleaning interval
• Reject tray (15 card capacity)
• Generates the following bar codes in layout mode:
• EAN 13 & 8, UPC-A, Code 39, Codabar, Code 128, Code 2 of 5
• Shipped with the following default fonts for layout mode:
  • Swiss Regular: 6, 8, 10, 14, 18, 24 pt
  • Swiss Italics: 6, 8, 10, 14 pt
  • OCRA: 10, 12 pt
  • Dutch Bold: 6, 8, 10, 18, 24 pt Any True-Type font can be downloaded from Microsoft Windows to support customized fonts
• PC Dash Board software for use in downloading additional fonts and images -also used for flash loading of firmware for easy updates
• Ability to run the machine via telnet to allow for remote trouble-shooting and machine configuration
• Choice of printing modes. High quality, for bar codes & graphics; high speed, for text
• Full range of monochrome color ribbons (full and half widths) available

OPTIONAL FEATURES

• Flipper for dual-sided printing (IMX2+ model). Allows cards to be stacked either face up or face down
• Magnetic encoding: 3 track, Dual Coercivity, ISO 7811, Bit to Bit (binary), Bally¿s, JIS-A, double-density encoding
• Smart Card ISO 7816 personalization
• Carousel: 6 input hoppers, each containing 100 cards 0.030¿ (0.76 mm) cards only
• Clear card kit (requires magnetic encoder to be fitted
• Thin card kit for for 0.015¿ (0.38mm) and 0.020¿ (0.51 mm) cards

All specifications are subject to change without notice. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.

1 - LCD Display 2 - Switch Panel 3 - Reject Tray 4 - Printhead 5 - Output Hopper	6 - Printing Foil 7 - Cleaning Tape 8 - Input Hopper 9 - Flipper with Magnetic Encoder

Patented integrated flipper and magnetic
stripe encoder

300 dpi printhead

Optional 6-hopper carousel