Description
The Magicard Pronto 3649-0001 is a compact, single-sided direct-to-card ID card printer designed for low-volume, on-demand badge issuance. Its simple hand-fed operation makes it an excellent choice for organizations that need to print individual employee IDs, membership cards, student badges, visitor credentials, access control cards and other personalized CR80 ID cards without investing in a larger batch-printing system. The Pronto combines full-color and monochrome printing, edge-to-edge card coverage, rewritable card capability and Magicard's built-in HoloKote® visual security watermark.
The Magicard Pronto is designed around simplicity. Instead of using an automatic input hopper, cards are inserted individually into the printer, making it especially convenient for organizations that print badges only when they are needed.
This one-card-at-a-time workflow is ideal for front desks, small offices, membership organizations, churches, schools, security departments and other environments where only a modest number of cards are issued each day.
- Single-sided direct-to-card printing
- Full-color dye-sublimation printing
- Monochrome thermal printing
- Rewritable card capability
- Hand-fed card loading
- Edge-to-edge card printing
- Built-in HoloKote® security watermark
- USB connectivity
- Compact desktop footprint
- Designed for standard CR80 / ISO ID-1 cards
One of the strongest features of the Magicard Pronto is HoloKote®, Magicard's patented visual security technology. HoloKote places a visible watermark pattern across the card surface during the normal printing process, providing an additional visual authentication feature without requiring a separate laminator.
The Pronto includes four standard HoloKote watermark designs that can be selected through the printer driver. When used with compatible HoloPatch® cards, the watermark can be made even more visible for quick card verification.
The Pronto produces professional photo IDs with full-color graphics, photographs, logos, text, barcodes and other cardholder information. Magicard specifies a full-color print speed of approximately 35 seconds per card, or roughly 100 color cards per hour.
Monochrome cards can be produced significantly faster, making the printer suitable for simple visitor passes, membership cards and other text- or barcode-focused credentials.
- Employee photo ID badges
- Access control credentials
- Visitor badges
- Membership cards
- Student and faculty IDs
- Healthcare identification badges
- Church and organization member cards
- Loyalty cards
- Contractor credentials
- Low-volume on-demand badge issuance
| Manufacturer | Magicard |
| Part Number | 3649-0001 |
| Print Method | Direct-to-card dye sublimation / thermal transfer |
| Print Sides | Single-sided |
| Card Feed | Manual / hand-fed |
| Color Print Speed | Approximately 35 seconds per card / up to 100 cards per hour |
| Monochrome Print Speed | Up to approximately 500 cards per hour |
| Card Thickness | 20–40 mil / 0.51–1.02 mm |
| Card Size | CR80 / ISO ID-1 |
| Connectivity | USB |
| Security | Four selectable HoloKote® watermark designs |
| Dimensions | Approx. 8.4 W x 9.1 H x 10.6 D in. |
| Weight | Approx. 9.7 lb. |
A hand-fed printer makes sense when cards are issued individually rather than in large batches. There is no card hopper to load or manage; simply insert a card when a badge needs to be produced. For organizations issuing a few cards at a time, this keeps the printer compact, simple and easy to operate.
If your organization routinely prints larger batches of cards, a current Magicard model with an automatic card feeder may be a better fit.
Part number 3649-0001 is the standard single-sided Magicard Pronto printer. This model does not include magnetic-stripe or smart-card encoding. Magicard identifies 3649-0002 as the magnetic-stripe version and 3649-0003 as the smart-card version. The original Pronto platform is now classified by Magicard as a legacy printer model.
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