Andy Matko, Directeur de Magicard, a déclaré : « les professionnels reconnaissent la qualité et la conception de la Rio Pro en a tenu compte.  Elle est faite de composants de haute qualité et de composites ad hoc, lui conférant une qualité supérieure d’impression, par ailleurs renforcée par notre fonction unique de filigrane HoloKote®.  La Rio Pro est soutenue par notre garantie de trois ans, la meilleure du marché, qui inclut un service de prêt d’imprimante : notre promesse de permettre aux professionnels de continuer à imprimer.»

La Rio Pro est fournie avec un choix de caractéristiques et d’utilisateurs : les utilisateurs peuvent imprimer par lots avec le dispositif d’alimentation de 100 cartes ou l’impression main libres avec l’alimentation manuelle et son affichage clair sur quatre lignes donne des informations intelligentes à l’utilisateur et lui permet d’interagir.

La Rio Pro est disponible en version d’impression mono ou double face, avec une option supplémentaire expliquée par Mr Matko : « avec la Rio Pro, vous pouvez acheter maintenant et choisir plus tard. Vous pouvez commencer avec une Rio Pro mono face et passer à l’impression double face en quelques secondes, grâce à notre mise à jour sur place simple : passez simplement notre ruban spécial et votre imprimante est instantanément en double face.»

Les fonctions de sécurité comprennent le HoloKote breveté de Magicard, qui ajoute un filigrane à la carte pendant le cycle normal d’impression avec les consommables existants, donnant une sécurité supplémentaire sans aucun frais. Avec la Rio Pro, ce filigrane peut être un dessin de sécurité ou un logo entièrement personnalisé, livré avec une carte RFID unique couplée à l’imprimante. Les options de codage sécurisé comprennent une bande magnétique, ainsi que des technologies de cartes sans contact et intelligentes.

La Rio Pro est conçue et fabriquée au centre Ultra Electronics d’excellence pour la fabrication au Royaume-Uni et renforcée par UltraCoverPlus, la meilleure garantie du marché de trois ans.

Livrée à partir du début 2011, la Rio Pro complète la nouvelle gamme de produits de Magicard, qui comprend également le Pronto d’entrée de gamme, l’Enduro de gamme moyenne et la Prima 4  à transfert inverse, toutes lancées au cours des 2 dernières années.FIN – 404 mots

Remarques : La Rio Pro sera présentée à Cartes 2010, au Centre d’Expositions de Paris Nord Villepinte, du 7 au 9 décembre (Stand 3 E 084). Consultez le site www.magicard.com pour toute information supplémentaire.

Magicard est membre de Ultra Electronics Holdings plc., groupe international d’aérospatiale, de défense et de sécurité. Avec 4 000 employés, principalement situés au Royaume-Uni et en Amérique du nord, Ultra Electronics se consacre aux technologies de pointe dans des marches à niche, avec un grand nombre de ses produits et de ses technologies étant leaders dans leur domaine.

Une carte d’identification est simple à créér et imprimer. Elle est personnalisée selon l’indidvidu et les besoins de sécurité, d’accès et de contrôle d’une organisation. Personnalisation signifie normalement photo portrait sur la carte, nom de la personne et de l’organisation. Cette personnalisation peut s’étendre à une signature, un code barre, et d’autres formes visibles d’identification. Evidemment, beaucoup de cartes ont des moyens électroniques d’identification, tels que la carte à puce, et la carte à piste magnétique.

Ultra Electronics, le groupe spécialiste dans l’aérospatiale, la défence et la sécurité est, avec les imprimantes Magicard, l’un des pionniers de l’impression de cartes plastiques. Depuis 1993, Magicard se démarque de la concurrence en offrant des produits robustes, dotés de functionnalités de sécurité avancées, ainsi que la meilleure garantie du marché. Les imprimantes de cartes plastiques Magicard sont aujourd’hui ultilisées partout dans le monde.

Avec le système de sécurité HoloKote breveté, Magicard est la seule marque d’imprimantes de cartes plastiques qui imprime automatiquement un filigrane anti-copie sur la carte pendant le cycle “impression”, sans surcoût de consommables.

Avec les imprimantes Rio 2e et Tango 2e, un filigrane HoloKote peut être personnalisé, assurant non seulement une sécurité de carte la plus élevée, mais permettant aussi au client d’imprimer leur propre logo sur la carte. L’HoloKote personnalisé se présente sous la forme d’un clé pré-programmée que l’on insère dans l’imprimante. Cette clé sert aussi de clé de verrouillage de l’imprimante.

L’imprimante Tango 2e est la version recto-verso de la Rio 2e. Capable imprimer 80 cartes recto-verso par heure, l’imprimante Tango 2 est idéale pour des impressions de grands volumes. Ces modèles offrent tous les mêmes dispositifs d’encodage: Cartes à piste magnétiques; cartes de proximité/sans contact et cartes à puce; ports USB, interface parallèle et Ethernet. Une vitesse rapide d’impression et un moteur d’impression robuste en metal.

La meilleure garantie du marché
Les imprimantes Rio 2 et Tango 2e sont couvertes à 100% pendant 3 ans avec la garantie UltraCoverPlus. Celle–ci comprend un service de prêt gratuit d’une imprimante équivalente en cas de retour usine. Ceci permet d’assurer une continuité dans la production des cartes.

Magicard, one of the worldwide leaders in ID card printer systems and a business unit of Ultra Electronics, the security and defense group, announces the launch of the Pronto, a compact and secure single-feed colour ID card printer for instant personalization of cards. The new Pronto addresses key retail, education, hospitality and recreation customers who require high quality card personalisation and affordable visual security.

This budget friendly printer produces secure colour or monochrome cards. Its compact and efficient design boasts simple operation, first rate performance, quality printing and HoloKote visual security at no extra cost per card. A choice of 4 standard security watermark designs is selectable via the driver.
Pronto is a light weight printer (just 4.4 kg – 9.7 lbs) which makes it very portable. With its compact and aesthetic design, the Pronto ID card printer resides very well on any counter or desktop.

Thanks to its intuitive operation with a simple 3-color LED status indicator, a USB interface, and plug & play Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and Vista® compatible software drivers that provide compatibility with most applications, customers will love how easy the Pronto is to set up and use straight out of the box.

It demonstrates Magicard’s commitment to manufacturing robust printers and making secure card printing affordable.

The Pronto is now available through authorised Magicard ID card printer resellers worldwide and offers a two year warranty.

Thahir Kassim, formerly working for a partner has been appointed as Sales Manager to this new office. Thahir brings a comprehensive sales and technical expertise as well as an in-depth understanding of the local market.

To contact Magicard Dubai Office:

Thahir KassimThahir(at)magicard.com
Phone: +9 714 260 2929
Fax: +9 714 260 2931

Ultra Electronics Middle East
4WB (West Wing) Office – 652
Dubai Airport Free Zone
54974 Dubai
U.A.E.

The key benefits of HoloKote FLEX are:

■ Custom visual security without the high cost and long lead time of special holographic laminate or UV films. Your Magicard printer does the job, placing the watermark on your card using standard consumable ribbons.
■ No ongoing additional printing costs. A modest one-time set up charge gets you a custom HoloKote FLEX key within days, holding your encrypted logo. That’s it. You can then print as many cards as you want with your custom design.
■ Secure – your design is guaranteed to be unique.

“HoloKote FLEX is an enhancement of the popular HoloKote watermark security that thousands of Magicard customers have used to secure their ID cards.” said Andy Matko, Magicard Business Manager. “While the legendary HoloKote, available only on Magicard printers, uses a repeat pattern on the card, HoloKote FLEX is …. Flexible! It offers an excellent alternative to costly holographic laminates and is truly secure because your HoloKote FLEX logo cannot be copied.”

The Enduro Duo also features a 100-card detachable feeder, as well as a manual feeding mode for printing cards one-by-one or in small batches. With an attractive style and color changing LED control panel, a USB interface, Microsoft XP and Vista plug & play driver, the Magicard Enduro Duo is all around easy to use from installation to printing full colour sharp images on your ID cards. Light weight (5.5kg), the printer is ideal for mobile applications.

A single sided model simply called the “Enduro” is available with an option for an upgrade kit to enable double side printing for customer’s whose needs change in the future. Dealers and distributors can also choose to simplify their inventory by just stocking the Enduro single-sided printer, and carrying the upgrade kits.

Andy Matko, the Magicard business manager says: “This is the most exciting development in ID card printers for a decade. Users need buy only as much printer as they need to get their project launched, safe in the knowledge that they can upgrade at any time in the future. Dealers also get a great opportunity to enrich the sales or the after-sales experience for the customer by offering simple up-sell options”.

Of course, the Enduro also offers all of the usual Magicard features including a choice of four Holokote security watermarks and an optional magstripe encoder.

With a 100 card feed hopper the Enduro is capable of handling any big print job, but for special applications there is also a front panel slot for hand-feeding cards when required. With an attractive style and colour changing LCD display with buttons, a USB interface and Microsoft Vista plug & play driver, the Magicard Enduro is all round easy to use, from installation to double-sided upgrade.

Offering excellent value for money for both the printer and consumables, the new Magicard Enduro is available in the Spring of 2008.

The new Magicard Enduro ID card printer is designed to meet the demand for flexible and affordable ID card production.

To support this success, Card Systems has commissioned a new Design, Sales, and Support centre within its Waverley House facility which is the latest phase of its investment which has also included the opening of a new printer manufacturing centre there in 2005.

The new facility was opened by Douglas Caster, Chief Executive of the Ultra Group based in Greenford, Middlesex. Mr Caster commented “Security systems are a key component of our overall focus on the high technology Aerospace and Defence sector, and our Card Systems business in Weymouth has delivered excellent growth in sales to demanding international markets. It gives me great pleasure to open this outstanding new facility”

“Our Card Systems team has been developing and manufacturing ID card printers here in Weymouth for over 12 years, and it is also gratifying to be here to witness the presentation of their second Queen’s Award for Enterprise”.

Ultra was chosen to receive the Queen’s Award because of its innovation in developing a family of low cost ID Card printers which enable the computerised generation of full colour plastic identity cards or badges without specialist training and at low cost.

The award presentation itself was made by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset Mrs Valerie Pitt Rivers in a 250 seater marquee within Bennett’s Water Gardens in Chickerell, and to celebrate the award, the presentation was followed by a garden party reception and evening disco for Ultra’s staff and many invited customers and guests.

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For further information, please contact:

Ray Coles, Managing Director,
Ultra Electronics Card Systems.
Tel +44 (0) 1305 784 738 or
rcoles(at)ultra.co.uk

Valérie Douard,
Marketing-Communications Manager
Ultra Electronics Card Systems.
Tel: +44 (0) 1305 762152 or
vdouard(at)ultra.co.uk

About Ultra Electronics

Ultra Electronics Card Systems is part of the international defense, aerospace and security group Ultra Electronics, with a worldwide workforce of 3,000 employees. Card Systems has been designing and manufacturing its Magicard range of secure ID Card Printers since 1993, and is now recognized as one of the world’s leading manufacturers. The high technology Magicard printers are used in a wide variety of portrait ID and access control applications, and incorporate innovative HoloKote® anti-counterfeiting technology, developed and patented by Ultra, which puts a watermark across the printed card surface.

Please visit www.magicard.com for more information.

UltraCoverPlus empowers Magicard users to keep on producing ID badges whatever the circumstances, by offering:

• Direct Support and Guidance from the manufacturer of Magicard printers, Ultra Electronics, on any subject related to using a Magicard printer.
• Eliminates printer downtime, thanks to Magicard’s printer loaner service in the event a customer’s printer requires depot service.
• The free replacement of any defective printhead, regardless of the cause of failure.

“UltraCoverPlus has always been highly valued by both Magicard printer users and resellers, as it is backed up by the Magicard Support Team, who have an average of more that 5 years experience advising and helping our customers” said Andy Matko, Magicard Team Leader. “Extending UltraCoverPlus to 3 years is an indication of our confidence in the quality of Magicard printers, and I believe will be an important factor in users selecting Magicard ID card printers.”

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For further information, please contact:

Valérie Douard, Marketing-Communications Manager,
Ultra Electronics Card Systems.
Tel: +44 (0) 1305 762152
vdouard(at)ultra.co.uk

About Ultra Electronics

Ultra Electronics Card Systems is part of the international defense, aerospace and security group Ultra Electronics, with a worldwide workforce of 3,000 employees. Card Systems has been designing and manufacturing its Magicard range of secure ID Card Printers since 1993, and is now recognized as one of the world’s leading manufacturers. The high technology Magicard printers are used in a wide variety of portrait ID and access control applications, and incorporate innovative HoloKote® anti-counterfeiting technology, developed and patented by Ultra, which puts a watermark across the printed card surface.

Visit www.magicard.com for more information

The Magicard Tango +L provides an excellent value ‘one-stop’ solution for HSPD-12 / FIPS 201 card issuance, combining high-quality ID card printing, secure lamination, and encoding of the card biometric data in one compact package.

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Attachments: – Photo of Magicard Tango +L ID card printer and laminator – HSPD-12 / FIPS 201 stamp

Notes to Editor

For further information, please contact:
Valérie Douard, Marketing-Communications Manager,
Ultra Electronics Card Systems.
Tel: +44 (0) 1305 762152
vdouard(at)ultra.co.uk

About Ultra Electronics

Ultra Electronics Card Systems is part of the international defense, aerospace and security group Ultra Electronics, with a worldwide workforce of 3,000 employees. Card Systems has been designing and manufacturing its Magicard range of secure ID Card Printers since 1993, and is now recognized as one of the world’s leading manufacturers. The high technology Magicard printers are used in a wide variety of portrait ID and access control applications, and incorporate innovative HoloKote® anti-counterfeiting technology, developed and patented by Ultra, which puts a watermark across the printed card surface.

Please visit www.magicard.com for more information.