Advantages: Reliable, high quality outputs Disadvantages: 30 seconds per badge, a little noisy
===Background===
We have used Magicard badge printers for approximately 5 years now to produce ID badges for staff and students alike. We started off with a couple of the original white RIo printers and upgraded to the Rio 2 model 3 years ago. Since then we have bought 7 of these devices for our various campuses and print out on average 10, 000 cards per year. As well as standard printing, there are various other clever functions these printers ... ...After numerous telephone conversations with Magicard support, it transpires that the only print server that is compatible with the Magicard printer is the Dlink DPU-300 (also reviewd my me a couple of months ago). Once we purchased this print server, it was simply a case of plugging upto 2 Magicards into it via the parallel port (USB wouldnt work as the Magicards use something called NUSB which is not standard - this is not a problem for one to one ...
craggybuk 05.09.2007 (31.08.2009)
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