Tips for Your Magicard Printer

Magicard ID card printers provide qualty, colorful card printing. At times, it is helpful to have an instruction manual or a guide to assist you with small issues that you need to resolve for continued card printing.

Following are tips and videos that may be helpful for you and your Magicard printer.

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Magicard Printer - How to Fit the Holokote Watermark on a Magicard Rio or Tango

Magicard ID card printers provide additional card printing security levels with the HoloKote watermark. This Magicard video illustrates how to fit the HoloKote watermark on Magicard ID card printers.

1. Ensure the printer is switched off. 2. Insert the HoloKote key. 3. Switch the printer back on. A steady green light indicates you can [...]

Magicard Printer - Replacing the Printhead

Magicard printers can often be serviced by the user. Magicard has developed a number of videos to illustrate how to keep your printer in top running condition. The following video illustrates how to replace a printhead in a Magicard ID card printer.

1. Switch off the printer and unplug the power lead. 2. Open [...]

Magicard Printer - Replacing the Cleaning Roller

The following video from Magicard demonstrates how to replace the cleaning roller in your Magicard ID card printer.

1. The printer comes with a cleaning roller which should be replaced when you change the print ribbon. 2. Remove the cleaning cassette. 3. Remove the used roller from the cassette. 4. Detach the protective cover [...]

Magicard Printer - How to Clean the Printhead

Magicard printers provide printed identification cards for both small organization and large card printing needs, such as a government issued ID card or financial cards from banks. Following is a video provided by Magicard to display how to clean the printer’s printhead.

This process is important to keep the internal printing mechanisms free from dirt, [...]

Datacard Prima 4 Reverse Transfer Printer

Beginning today, the id badge printer available for laminated card applications from Magicard is the Prima 4. This printer provides the capabilities of the Tango +L printer and laminator with a high quality reverse transfer printing feature.

The Magicard Tango +L integrated printer and laminator will no longer be available although those who have [...]

Magicard HoloKote Video

This video from Magicard demonstrates the Magicard HoloKote tool available on Magicard ID card printers. The HoloKote tool provides a custom key for your HoloKote enabled card printer model.

The custom key is a memory card device. The key holds your custom HoloKote watermark logo and is also able to lock some models of [...]

Magicard Opera

The Magicard Opera Printer is a good value all-in-one solution for color ID card printing. Easy to set up and use, the cards are hand fed for easy single sided hand fed printing.

HoloKote options provide security against card forgery. The design in the HoloKote is the waves pattern. Magstripe encoding is optional.

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Magicard Rio 2e ID card printer – Loading cards

Loading PVC cards into an id card printer can sometimes be confusing. Magnetic strips, signature strips and other card functions make placing the card in the hopper correctly important. This free video was released by Magicard on July 8 demonstrating how to load PVC cards into the Magicard Rio 2e ID card printer.

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