There are specialty printers for large volume bankcards, for example. There are high-volume thermal printers. Now identification card printer makers are adding popular inkjet printers to the mix.
For example, Joe Wright, director of product marketing for hardware at Fargo Electronics, Eden Prairie, Minn., reports that his firm has worked with Hewlett-Packard, the printer maker, to transform a desktop printer into a central card-issuance printer. The line has card cartridges to handle either 50 or 100 blank cards for printing.