Magicard ID card printers are some of the best in the industry. The quality of materials used and the technology inside ensure that they grow with you as your needs for ID evolve and last for years of use.
The Pronto is Magicard's entry-point ID card printer, built for small businesses and beginners printing lower volumes. If you're printing enough cards that hand-feeding becomes a bottleneck, the Magicard Pronto100 offers an automatic feeder and faster speeds for a bit more outlay. Both are great choices; it genuinely comes down to your volume and budget, and our team can help you decide which one fits.
If you need printing straight out of the box, we recommend our Magicard Pronto ID card printer bundle. It offers the free design software that comes with all of our ID card printers, as well as the consumables specifically designed to enhance your card production.
This bundle includes:
Every Pronto includes HoloKote® security as standard. HoloKote is a printed watermark that helps prevent card duplication. You can choose from four predefined watermark designs directly from the printer driver. For extra visual security, pair it with HoloPatch® ID cards, which have a highlighted section for the watermark that becomes a reflective gold seal, making a cloned or tampered card obvious at a glance.
We supply a diverse range of ribbons such as full colour, monochrome and specialist, all high-quality and genuine ribbons built for the printer.
Print your designs onto high-quality cards for the best results. We supply a range of blank cards (CR80 - ISO/IEC 7810:2003) that are perfect for use with your card printer. Choose from our broad range of plastic cards to suit your needs, or opt for one of our more sustainable card solutions.
We recommend cleaning your ID card printer when replacing the printer ribbon to keep the printer performing at its best and to prevent any build-up of dust and debris. Check out all of our accessories such as maintenance kits, which are perfect for increasing your printer's lifespan. We also offer a printhead for the Pronto if you ever need a new one.
Using our own current prices: a full-colour card runs at roughly £0.33 each (a 300-print colour ribbon at £62.25 works out to about £0.21 a card, plus around £0.12 a card for a standard blank PVC card). A monochrome card is closer to £0.14 each (a 1,000-print black ribbon at £16.95 is under 2p a card, plus the same £0.12 for the card itself).If you're printing photo ID cards, the Pronto is excellent value for money and the ideal printer for small businesses looking for professional quality cards on a budget.
The printer itself takes 35 seconds per full-colour card, but that's the print cycle, not the whole job. Hand-feeding adds loading and removal time on top. Realistically, one person working steadily could get through somewhere around 60-80 cards in a focused hour of continuous printing. In practice, most buyers at this level aren't running the printer for a continuous hour; they're printing a handful of cards as new starters, or visitors come in through the day, which is exactly the volume this printer is built for.
Neither the Pronto nor the Pronto 100 supports MIFARE, HID, or any contactless/contact chip encoding. The Pronto's only encoding option is a magnetic stripe upgrade. If you need MIFARE or HID smart card encoding, the Magicard 300 is the entry point in the range that actually offers it and is available in single-sided and double-sided options.
The Pronto isn't locked to one piece of software, it works through a standard Windows or Mac print driver, so most ID card design tools will run it. We provide CardExchange Go with every printer purchase on ID Card Centre, which is an excellent card printing software that is easy to use and has loads of features to grow into. CardExchange Premium, EasyBadge, and cardPresso software are all genuinely compatible options too, so if you need more than what Go can provide straight out of the box, you have a lot of options.
Magicard's own warranty covers the printhead for 50,000 cards or 250,000 panels, whichever comes first; that's the manufacturer's own real-world benchmark for expected life under normal use with genuine consumables.
Structurally, the Pronto is a really simple machine to operate. It's as simple as setting it to print in the software, manually feeding in a card and removing the card once it's complete. If you've never printed ID cards before, it's one of the most straightforward machines to use and if you have plenty of experience, you'll enjoy the no-nonsense printing too. It does the job without you needing to reread the manual each and every time you're ready to press print.
The Magicard Pronto is covered by a 2-year MagiCover Limited Warranty against workmanship defects and component failure, with an optional 1-year extension, backed by Magicard's UK-based support team. Our UK-based team is also here to support you from before you buy to years after, if you have any further questions.
