Help with choosing a decent ID card printer

[mikkydoos]

Hi all,

 

Looking for a new ID card printer for a large secondary school.

 

Ideally we want speed, cartridge load, ability to print from multiple machines, decent bundled software....   or does anyone have recommendations of decent 3rd party software.

Don't need encoding as cards are purchased pre-encoded.

 

Any recommendations guys ???

 

 

Cheers in advance   

Edited April 11 by mikkydoos

[6Foot2]

Thread on a similar topic from November 2023:

 

Link: ID Card Printers - What Do You Use? - How do you do....it? - EduGeek.net

[Bromcom_ML]

When I was in a school, I always used Digital ID, https://www.digitalid.co.uk/ for our ID card supplies.

 

Great advice, fast, and well-priced. I used an Evolis Primacy, and the system was set up to read the card number of the card which was printed, and feed it back in to AD and various other systems for full integration (ask me more if you're interested on what I had set up). The caddy could handle a good stack of cards, so could be left churning away on the new intakes.

[robk]

I can second Digital ID as a good supplier, had several printers from them over the years!

[localzuk]

I used Evolis Primacy machines in my last place. And we have an Evolis Zenius here. Reliable machines!

 

Can't comment on the software though - in both places, we used custom software.

[PotNoodleTech]

I've got Evolis primacy here and the machines are OK but the software is pretty garbage not easy to use for NON IT peeps.

 

I wouldnt buy another one.

[Simcfc73]

I've got the EasyBadge 3.0 from DigitalID printer with the Easybadge software. 

 

Never had any issues and the quality is fine.

 

 

[FragglePete]

Datacard SD260 card printer here - had it quite a few years now and chugs along quite nicely.

 

We generate our templates in things like InDesign and mail merge, along with a photoshop template we use.  No fancy card printing software in use.  

 

Pete