Markem-Imaje - Kennesaw, GA
Manufacturer, Custom Manufacturer, Service Company
ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 certified manufacturer of thermal printers for plastic cards. Thermal printers are available in various models with 5 mm/second to 1,800 mm/second speed, 53 mm x 150 mm print area, color touch screen user interface controllers, 1 mm gap between prints, real time digital coding, USB ports & 8 dots/minute print resolution & diagnostics & password protection.
www.markem-imaje.com/international/us/us-us...

GCC America, Inc. - Walnut, CA
Distributor, Manufacturer
Manufacturer of thermal printers for plastic cards. Specifications include 45 sec/YMCKO printing speed, feeder capacity up to 50 cards, 300 dpi printing resolution, 18 degrees C to 30 degrees C operating temperature, 20% to 65% operating humidity, 100/240 Volt, 50/60 Hz power supply and color dye sublimation & monochrome thermal transfer printing methods. Card printers are available with customization software, ribbon cartridge, smart card couplers & optional ribbons, cleaning rollers & empty cartridges. Printers can be used for printing various types of magnetic stripe & contact smart chip cards, parking permits, badges, miniature diplomas, promotional book marks & tags.
Brand Names: GCC, LaserPro, StellarJET
www.gccworld.com/product.php?MODEL=New%20Ca...

Direct Color Systems - Rocky Hill, CT
Manufacturer, Custom Manufacturer
Manufacturer of standard & custom full-color badge & plate printers developed to deliver full-color or single-color printing of badges, ad specialties, IDs & plates onto pre-cut blanks. Made in the USA.
Brand Names: Direct Color Systems
www.directcolorsystems.com/millennium-print...

ID Card Group - West Sacramento, CA
Distributor, Custom Manufacturer
Distributor of thermal printers & thermal transfer printers. Features include plastic card printers that produce single-color or full-color ID cards with optional security over-lamination. Production capabilities range from basic single-feed ID card printers with manual data input to sophisticated high-volume batch printers that pull info from several databases. Types of thermal printers include single-sided, double-sided, high-volume & high-security.
Brand Names: Nisca
printers.idcardgroup.com

Dartronics, Inc. - Perth Amboy, NJ
Distributor, Manufacturer, Custom Manufacturer, Manufacturers' Rep, Service Company
Distributor of glass, metal & plastic thermal printers including plastic card & PVC card thermal printers. Printers also include high resolution inkjet printers with XAAR® & HP® technologies & small character CIJ printers. Ribbons, thermal transfer labels, direct thermal labels & inks & make-up fluids are also available. Customized inkjet printing includes automatic printing on assembly parts. Print head repair services include visual inspection, exterior cleaning, removal, evaluation & ultrasonic cleaning of CP/OP & restrictor plate, filter replacement & tubing inspection & replacement. Service warranty of 30 days available.
Brand Names: Hitachi
www.dartronics.com/a-shelf_talkers.shtml

Practical Automation, Inc. - Milford, CT
Manufacturer, Custom Manufacturer
Custom manufacturer of plastic card thermal printers including kiosk printers & ticket printers. Kiosk printers are available in wide & standard formats, support multiple paper output configurations, resolution up to 300 DPI, printing speeds up to 3.1 in. per second & are Windows® compatible. Ticket printers are available with adjustable printer widths from 2 to 4 in., printing speeds up 10 in. per second, resolutions up to 300 DPI & include automatic cutters & 512K of flash memory. Full support & service available.
www.practicalautomation.com/

Western Graphix - Torrance, CA
Distributor, Service Company
Distributor of thermal identification plastic card printers including PVC card printers. System printers have the capacity to print 2-sided identification cards, colorful badges with logos, bar codes, encoded mag stripes, smart card chips & digitized signatures. Poster printers to print 23 in. W & colorful posters from 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. paper are also available. Markets include small businesses, government facilities, law enforcement, healthcare, education, transportation, membership organizations, professional associations & health clubs.

ID Galaxy - Bloomington, MN
Distributor
Distributor of plastic card thermal printers. Card printers can print high resolution texts, logos, pictures, signatures & barcodes. Resolutions are available up to 300 dpi (11.8 dots/mm) with print speeds of up to one card every 4 seconds. Options include magnetic encoding, smart card encoding & contactless card personalization. Printers are available compatible with Windows™ or Mac OS X. Printers are available with capabilities including monochrome printing, color printing, single sided & double sided card printing.
Brand Names: Evolis, Zebra

CIM USA, Inc. - Miami, FL
Distributor, Manufacturer
Manufacturer of thermal printers for personalizing identification plastic cards. Available with 300 DPI printing resolution & can print pictures, texts, graphics, barcodes & logos. Printers can operate stand alone or in in-line configuration with other modules & are suitable for printing visitor employee badges & membership & loyalty cards. Various applications include banks, credit institutions, insurance companies, casinos, government offices, clubs, organizations, libraries, schools, retail outlets & local authorities.
Brand Names: CIM

General Scanning Thermal Printers - Billerica, MA
Manufacturer, Custom Manufacturer
An ISO 9001:2000 certified manufacturer of thermal printers. Offers a line of 50,100, & 200 mm thermal chart recorders that address the needs of medical instrumentation & test & measurement OEMs. Fully-integratable or stand-alone configurations, these are real-time chart recorders (up to 50-100 mm/second chart speeds, depending on format). On-board algorithms for multi-channel wave smoothing, background grids, fonts for alphanumeric information, & graphic capability are standard.

Ez Publishing - Sacramento, CA
Manufacturer, Custom Manufacturer, Service Company
Assistance with printing needs available

GSI Group-Precision Motion Division - Bedford, MA
Manufacturer, Custom Manufacturer
ISO 9001:2000 certified manufacturer of standard & custom thermal printers including plastic card thermal printers. Features include small & lightweight design, modular construction, multiple mechanical configurations, available as a print engine, complete panel-mounted or flat-bed unit & ability to print up to six overlapping traces each with annotation & proprietary waveform-smoothing. Specifications include chart speed from 1 mm per hour to 100 mm per second, paper dia. from 50 mm to 200 mm, 246 alphanumeric character set & resolution up to 800 dpi. Services include application consulting, CAD/CAM, technical consultation, OEM design support, rapid prototyping & repairs. Markets served include aerospace, automotive, energy, electronics, medical, pharmaceuticals & consumer goods industries.

509 Technologies - Greensboro, NC
Manufacturer
Design & manufacturer of special high speed magnetic card processing systems including high speed thermal printers. Custom card personalization processing systems with 1 or 2 thermal print stations. Complete system that will feed, thermal print (one side), flip station for printing on opposite side of card, high speed vision verification, encode, read, verify & match information on pre-magnetic striped cards. Secondary SQL server can be used to monitor card shrink wrapping & labeling accuracy. Job completion reports will be available via a network TCP/IP intranet. System elements include card feeding systems, thermal print personalization systems, high speed vision verification, magnetic encoding & verification assembly, card collection, batching & rejection, batching, boxing & labeling. Engineered components to specific requirements.

Lamination Service, Inc. - Memphis, TN
Distributor, Manufacturer, Custom Manufacturer, Service Company
Manufacturer & distributor of plastic card thermal printers as well as a full line of identification systems & supplies, including ID card software & total ID system integration, PVC cards, printers & ribbons. Custom ID card design & printing available with multiple security applications, access control, repair for major ID card printer brands. Manufacturer of lamination pouches & roll lamination, thermal lamination, collating, perfect binding, folding & eyeleting. Promotional products including corporate apparel; wide format digital printing.