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New HID instant issuance printer touts seamless migration to EMV cards

April 24, 2013

HID Global, a provider of secure identity solutions, has announced its new Fargo HDPii Plus financial card printer/encoder, the successor to its HDPii desktop solution for retransfer printing of financial cards. The new device features the company's fifth generation of high definition printing technology, and enables secure instant issuance of both magnetic swipe and contact/contactless EMV cards. 

The new HDPii Plus features AES256 data encryption, resin ribbon erase functionality and inline encoding capability for both ISO magnetic swipe and EMV contact/contactless chips. For increased productivity, the user can add an optional dual card input hopper that allows for convenient automatic switching between two different card types. 

"As one of the last countries to migrate to EMV card technology, the U.S. payments infrastructure is now undergoing a rapid transition to EMV payment cards," said Alan Fontanella, vice president of product marketing, secure issuance at HID Global. "The HDPii platform changed the industry in 2007 when we launched the world's first financial retransfer printer and with the introduction of our new HDPii Plus today, HID Global maintains its leading position in providing customers with the most innovative solutions needed to help them through such important technology shifts in our industry."

Most recently adopted by one of South America's largest banks, the HDPii platform is the most widely-adopted retransfer printing solution in the world today, with more than 5,000 printer units manufactured and in use since 2008, the company said. The new HDPii Plus further expands the HID Global financial solutions portfolio, offering features that include:

• new, high durability HDP film for longer card life;
• card throughput speeds 15 percent faster than previous models;
• brighter OLED graphical display with support for multiple languages;
• enhanced capabilities included in the Fargo WorkBench v3.0 diagnostic color-assist spot color matching tool.

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