DATACARD® SD160™ CARD PRINTER

ENTRY-LEVEL Launch Your ID Card Program — Quickly, Simply and Affordably

HIGH PERFORMANCE The Datacard® SD160™ card printer delivers the perfect mix of affordability, security and
Highly flexible and versatile — and simplicity to get your ID card issuance program started. An extension of our proven Datacard®
packed with performance enhancing SD Series, this economical ID card printer provides the right combination of technologies
features — the Datacard® SD160™
you need to efficiently print high-quality cards for less. Featuring rewritable printing, inline
card printer is the affordable way
magnetic stripe encoding, a unique ultraviolet (UV) printing security feature and intuitive
to print cards for many types of
operation, the versatile SD160 card printer empowers you to meet a wide range of ID issuance
applications, including:
applications requirements — while protecting your bottom line.

• Corporate IDs
Affordable cost, long-term value. The smart choice for producing a wide variety of high-
• Healthcare IDs
quality photo ID cards or badges at a lower cost-per-card, this unique, economical system can
• Student, visitor or staff IDs
be scaled up as your needs and requirements grow.
• Retail, hospitality and
loyalty cards
Proven reliability. Our enhanced technology platform offers absolute dependability, backed
• Local government IDs by our 24-month warranty. Print and personalize outstanding color and monochrome cards
• Visitor IDs
with high-quality, full-color or single-color photos, graphics and text.

Ultimate versatility and flexibility. The SD160 card printer offers full-color, monochrome
or rewritable printing with single-pass efficiency — plus inline encoding. You can encode
magnetic stripes for physical or logical access control and machine readable authentication, as
well as rewrite cards instantly, without the time and cost of reissuance.

Economical Security. Unlike comparably priced card printers, this system includes a UV ink
option that prints an invisible layer of covert security. Add more layers of security by printing
logos, graphics, photos, signature and other information to protect your people, places and
processes.
 DATACARD® SD160™ CARD PRINTER

• One-sided (simplex) card printing

• Color, monochrome and rewritable printing
• Reloadable supply cartridges with drop-in
cleaning roller
• Automatic 100-card input hopper and 25-card
ouput hopper standard with optional 200-card input
hopper and 100-card output hopper
• SDK support for third-party application development
• Intuitive LCD panel with soft-touch controls
• Optional magnetic stripe encoding
• Standard USB connectivity
• Low-yield print ribbons: YMCKT, 250 image; ymcKT,
UV ink offers an invisible
650 image; UV ribbon option: YMCKFT, 300 image
layer of extra security.

Datacard® SD160™ Card Printer Datacard® SD260™ Card Printer

Cards Per Hour (up-to) – Color Single-Sided 150 200
Cards Per Hour (up-to) - Monochrome Single-Sided 500 830
Rewritable Card Printing Yes No
Magnetic Stripe Encoding (optional) Yes Yes
Contact Smart Card Encoding (optional) No Yes
Contactless Smart Card Encoding (optional) No Yes
Printer and Printhead Warranty 24 months 30 months
Connectivity USB USB & Ethernet
XPS Driver Yes Yes
Printer Driver SDK Yes Yes
Low Yield Ribbons Yes No

SD160 Printer Standard Features and Specifications

Print technology Direct-to-card dye-sublimation/resin thermal transfer

Print capabilities One-sided, edge-to-edge printing

Edge-to-edge rewritable, full-color and monochrome printing
Alphanumeric text, logos and digitized signatures; 1D/2D bar code images
Printer pooling/sharing
Print resolution 300 dots per inch, 256 shades per color panel
High-quality mode: 300 x 600 dots per inch; enhanced text, bar code and graphics printing
300 x 1200 dots per inch; enhanced text and bar code printing
Print speed** Full-color printing: up to 150 cards per hour, one-sided (YMCKT*)
Monochrome: up to 500 cards per hour, one-sided (black HQ*)
Rewritable printing up to 14 seconds per card
Build a complete card issuance
Card capacity Automatic feed: 100-card input for 0.030 in. (0.76 mm) cards; 25-card output standard
Exception slot manual feed: 1-card input solution with Entrust Datacard
Physical dimensions L 15.4 in. x W 6.9 in. x H 8.8 in. (39.1 cm x 17.5 cm x 22.4 cm) Datacard® SD160™ card printers work
with Datacard® software, certified
Weight 8.1 lbs (3.7 kg)
supplies and global services to give you
Connectivity Bidirectional USB 2.0
a complete ID issuance solution that
Warranties 36-month standard depot warranty; 36-month printhead warranty (no pass restrictions); L.C. warranty delivers exceptional results.
details can be found in the printer documentation kit

SD160 Printer Options

Magnetic stripe Field upgradable
encoding ISO 7811 three-track option (high- and low-coercivity)
JIS Type II single-track option
Support for standard and custom data formats
End-user Extended 100-card output hopper, 200-card input hopper Corporate Headquarters
upgradable options KL-style lock for printer
Phone: +1 952 933 1223
www.datacard.com
info@entrustdatacard.com

Datacard and SD160 are trademarks, registered trademarks and/or service marks of Entrust Datacard Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Names and logos on cards
are fictitious. Any similarity to actual names, trademarks or tradenames is coincidental. ©2015 Entrust Datacard Corporation. All rights reserved. Specifications subject to change without notice.
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