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Magicard 300 ID Card Printer Overview The Magicard 300 is a direct-to-card ID card printer built for organisations printing up to 10,000 plastic cards a year. Schools, colleges, membership bodies and medium-sized businesses use it to produce full-colour photo ID cards and staff badges in-house, with security features that protect against counterfeiting built in as standard. Specifications Specification Detail Print technologyDirect-to-card dye sublimation, monochrome thermal, rewritable Resolution300 x 300 dpi Colour print speed160 cards/hour (23 sec/card, single-sided) Monochrome print speed720 cards/hour (5 sec/card, single-sided) Input hopper100 cards Output stacker70 cards Card sizesCR80, CR79 Card thickness20 to 50 mil ConnectivityUSB 2.0, Ethernet (10/100) OS compatibilityWindows 11, 10 (32/64-bit); Mac OS 10.10.x, 10.7.x Ribbon typesYMCKO, YMCKOK SecurityHoloKote® watermark, Digital Shredding Dimensions242 mm H × 215 mm W × 408 mm D Weight4.98 kg Warranty3-year MagiCover Limited Warranty (50,000 card / 250,000 panel printhead coverage); optional 1-year extension What's Included: Magicard 300 Printer Power Supply USB Cable Card Hopper (Output) Driver Installation Print quality and speed that suit a working card programme The Magicard 300 prints at 300 x 300 dpi using colour dye sublimation, which means skin tones in photos and corporate logo colours reproduce accurately. A full-colour single-sided card takes 23 seconds, giving you 160 cards per hour on colour runs. Monochrome jobs run considerably faster at 720 cards per hour, making it practical for large batches of text-only or single-colour membership cards and visitor passes. The 100-card input hopper keeps the printer fed during batch runs without needing attention, and the 70-card output stacker collects finished cards neatly. A hand-feed slot handles one-off prints and rewritable card jobs without disturbing the loaded hopper. Card security: HoloKote® and Digital Shredding The Magicard 300 includes two built-in security layers to protect your data and your physical ID cards. HoloKote® prints a transparent watermark across the surface of every card during the normal print cycle, using the overlay panel of your YMCKO or YMCKOK ribbon so no extra consumables are needed. The printer comes with three standard watermark designs, and you can add custom designs based on your organisation's own logo or security artwork. The watermark is visible when the card is tilted in the light, making duplicated or doctored cards easy to spot. Digital Shredding addresses a less obvious risk: personal data held in printer memory after a job completes. Once the Magicard 300 has used that data to print, it fragments and disperses it so that it cannot be recovered. For organisations subject to UK GDPR obligations around personal data, this is a pract..