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In short: Compatible printer ribbons are the ribbons made for your printer's model family. Ribbons from another brand will not fit and ribbons for another model from the same brand often will not either. Find the make and model on the printer label, match it in the tables below and then choose the panel set you need. Some ribbons are region coded a..

In short: The Magicard 300 is a UK-built ID card printer for schools, colleges and medium sized organisations printing up to 10,000 cards a year, with a 100 card hopper, an optional dual-sided model and Magicard's HoloKote watermark. Two Evolis ID card printers are the closest alternatives. The Zenius 2 is a compact single-sided printer for smaller..

In short: To choose an ID card printer, work through six questions: how many cards you print, whether you need both sides, whether the cards carry a chip or stripe that must be encoded, which security features you need, what software you will design in and what each card will cost to run. Entry level direct to card printers suit small on-demand run..

In short: Plastic ID cards are blank PVC cards in the standard CR80 credit card size that you print with photos, names and logos to make staff badges, student cards and membership cards. The right card depends on what the card has to do: plain white PVC for everyday photo ID, a coloured or metallic finish to tell groups apart, a magnetic stripe or ..

In short: PAC cards are the access control cards and key tokens that open doors on a PAC system: present the card to a PAC reader and the door releases. There are two families. KeyPAC is the low frequency 125kHz proximity line, while PAC OpsTM is the 13.56MHz MIFARE and DESFire line. PAC has changed its part codes over the years, so the safest way ..

In short: Net2 access control for GP surgeries and clinics links every staff card or fob to a user record. Access levels keep treatment rooms, records rooms and other staff-only areas closed to people who should not be there. Locums and agency staff can be given tokens with start and end dates. A lost token is barred at every door the moment it is ..

In short: Paxton Net2 for schools gives each member of staff and each student a card or fob linked to a user record. Access levels then decide which doors they can open and at what times. Staff cards can double as printed photo ID. Visitors and supply staff can be given tokens that expire automatically, while a lost card is barred from every door i..

In short: You can print Paxton Net2 cards yourself on a direct to card ID card printer. Paxton confirms that dye sublimation ID card printers which print direct to plastic work with Net2 ISO cards. Net2 Lite offers a fixed card layout with a background image and four custom text fields. Net2 Pro adds the Net2 Card Designer for full templates with l..

In short: To deal with a lost Net2 token, open the user's record in Net2, go to the Tokens tab, select the missing card or fob and click Lost token. It is barred from every door at once and any attempt to use it is logged as a Lost Token event. Then enrol a replacement on the same user record, which keeps their existing access level. If the old tok..

In short: To enrol Net2 cards and fobs, plug a Net2 desktop reader into the PC that runs Net2, then restart the Net2 server. Present a new card or fob to the reader and Net2 opens the Add User form with the token number already filled in. Type the person's name, choose an access level and click Add user. The token works at the doors that access lev..

In short: Paxton's Net2 PC requirements call for a 64-bit edition of Windows 10, Windows 11 or Windows Server 2016 to 2025, with at least 8 GB of RAM, an 80 GB drive and a screen of at least 1280 x 720. Windows 11 also needs four cores and TPM 2.0. Paxton bases these figures on a Windows installation dedicated to Net2, recommends a local machine ov..

In short: Switch2 tokens work on Paxton's standalone Switch2 and Compact systems, so there is no PC and no software. They arrive in packs where every user card or keyfob is paired with a shadow card, plus an enrolment card that switches the whole pack on at each reader. Lost tokens are barred by presenting the matching shadow card. Settings such as..