Network You ID Card Printer!

Ethernet Networks and ID Card Printers

Your ID card printer is a valuable resource, and it may not make sense to tie it to a single workstation. Putting your ID card printer on you local area network (LAN) can make it accessible not only to other users in your building but anyone in your company, even if they are working miles away! Many of our printers have the capability to connect to a LAN as a node on the network without the need to be connected to a PC. (You will still need the software on a PC to create the designs and send print jobs to the printer.)

Some of the card printers offered by Oak Tree Data have the capability to connect to LANs built right in; others require that an additional device called a print server be installed. Almost always this is done by the factory when the printer is built, so you need to know if you be networking your printer before you order it. At present, only the Ethernet protocol is supported; token ring and Mac networks are not available.

ID Card Printers with Built-In Ethernet

Evolis printers offer Ethernet capability as a standard in their Pebble and Dualys printers.

Datacard offers Ethernet standard on their SP55 and SP75 printers.

ID Card Printers with the Ethernet Option

Fargo has print servers as an factory option for the DTC-550 and HDP-600 printers.

Datacard offers Ethernet as a factory option on their SP35 printer.