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CardFive can print cards in plastic, teslin, normal or special papers (like photo paper for example).
Its development has been done with plastic cards in mind, a major attention has been given to plastic card specific printers.
Some plastic card printers manufacturers and links to their web sites : Fargo, Eltron-Privilege, Digicard, APPrint, Datacard, MagicCard, Nisca, Atlantech.
CardFive explores in most of these cases all the printers functionality, like managing the encoders, handling the special ribbons as necessary, smoothing color gradients, optimizing the download speed and controlling errors, based on printers response. That's what we call DCL (Direct command language), in which we do not recur to Windows Printer drivers but rather access and dialog to the printer directly.
On the other hand, CardFive also handles card printing via Windows drivers. This is particularly adapted when managing page printers like Inkjet or Laser printers. Then, CardFive divides cards along the page as possible and prints a page containing many cards. Printing via Windows Drivers is also suitable for plastic card specific printers in which there is no DCL available. In this case, we still manage encoders by issuing special commands to the driver.
Basically, CardFive can print in any printer but major advantages exist on printers which we have been developing DCL's.

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