Zebra launches retransfer printers

Kolkata, Dec 7 : Zebra Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: ZBRA), a printing and automatic identification solutions provider, Monday announced the launch of Zebra ZXP Series 8 printers with smart card encoding facility.

The retransfer printer offers a host of options for smart card encoding and networking making it ideal for applications such as high security ID cards, driver's licenses, gift cards and financial cards. The Zebra ZXP Series 8 produces photo-quality cards at nearly twice the speed of other retransfer printers currently on the market, said a company release.

"Industry adoption of retransfer printing has been slow, in part, because of slow print speeds and high costs," said Ram Ramaprasad, director of product management for Zebra Technologies. "Zebra developed the ZXP Series 8 printer to respond to the industry's need for an on-demand retransfer printer capable of delivering higher print speeds at lower costs without sacrificing the image quality. Zebra also developed the ZMotif software platform, to make application integration easier than ever."

The printer is available in single- and dual-sided printing configurations with a full portfolio of magnetic encoding, smart card encoding, single-and dual-sided lamination, and connectivity options.