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Part #: PF-11S Persona© C30e Card Printer/Encoder Single Side ID Card Printer System Entry Level ID Card Printer Price Includes: Persona C30e single-sided printer, Asure ID Express Software, USB digital camera (1.3 megapixels), full-color ribbon cartridge (250 images), 100 UltraCard PVC cards, 1 pack of cleaning rollers (3 per pack), USB cable and 1 Year Asure ID Protect No shopping cart available for this product. Please call Security Imaging at 1-877-369-7033 if interested in placing an order.

Easy-loading ribbon cartridge

The Persona© C30e takes the hassle out of handling printer supplies. Its easy-loading ribbon cartridge combines the printer ribbon and card-cleaning roller into one disposable unit. Just slide in the cartridge, close the door and you re done. No feeding or tearing ribbon rolls, no fumbling with separate cleaning rollers.

2 Year Warranty

Relax with the peace-of-mind that comes from the Persona© C30e two-year warranty. If anything should go wrong, the warranty includes depot service at the factory.

About Direct-to-Card Printing


Direct-to-Card (DTC©) printing is the most common technology used by desktop card printer/encoders to transfer images directly onto a plastic ID card. DTC technology prints images by heating a print ribbon beneath a thermal printhead, resulting in the transfer of color from the ribbon to a blank card.


Sharp edges, deep blacks and the full spectrum of colors_DTC technology uses two printing methods to achieve its incredible image quality:

Dye-sublimation prints smooth, continuous-tone images that look truly photographic. A dye-based ribbon is partitioned by multiple color panels, which are grouped in a repeating series of colors along the ribbon s length.

A printhead containing hundreds of thermal elements heats the dyes, which vaporize and diffuse into the card surface. By combining colors and varying the heat used to transfer them, dye-sublimation is capable of producing up to 16.7 million colors.


Resin thermal transfer uses a single-color ribbon to print sharp black text and crisp bar codes, which can be read by both infrared and visible-light scanners. While this process uses the same thermal printhead as dye-sublimation, solid dots of color are transferred rather than a combination of colors.