EDIsecure® C3000 PassPrinter for e-Passports

Six-colour high secure inkjet printer for machine readable passports

The C3000 is a six-colour high secure inkjet printer for machine readable passports based on innovative print technology by HP. Passport booklets with up to 100 pages can be processed.
Each single page can get its individual print. Versatile including many standard features the C3000 fits perfectly into passport office environments.

High Security
With its high speed USB 2.0 connection the C3000 can be connected to a document reader via PC. In this combination basic data can be automatically copied from a former passport or ID document. Printing is possible after successful verification of traveler‘s former document or legally issued application form, only.

UV Colours
Outstanding with the C3000 is its ability of printing invisible UV colours to the visible colours simultaneously. This advantage features enhanced security on personalization and passport issuing. The C3000 offers a wide range of UV colours, visible under UV light wave range of 254 or 365 nm only. Various ink/print combinations like visible and invisible UV colour ghost image, printed data page in UV colours, full colour UV ghost photo et cetera, are possible.

Visible Inks: cyan, magenta, yellow, black (others on request)
Invisible Inks: UV blue or UV red (others on request)
Infrared Ink: on request

Printing system – designed to save ink and money
Some printer manufacturers claim that systems with tri-colour cartridges waste ink as the whole cartridge needs to be replaced when a particular colour runs out; whereas in individual-cartridge systems only the ink that has run out needs to be replaced.
In fact, efficient ink usage is not about the type of cartridge (individual or tri-colour) but rather about the design and performance of the printing system.
To demonstrate the point, HP commissioned independent research. The research shows that tested against comparable HP tri-colour-cartridge printers, competing-brand printers with individual ink cartridges used twice as much ink to print the same number of pages! With their efficient design, HP printers print up to twice as many high-quality pages using the same amount of ink as competing printers with individual ink cartridges. Clearly, printers with individual ink cartridges for each colour are not inherently more efficient than printers with tri-colour cartridges.

Specifications

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS AND FEATURES

• RFID Reader and Writer - the C3000 comes with RFID Reader and Writer to read and write data to a RFID chip according to the ICAO recommendations.
• Camera System - The Camera System enables to print holder's data to a pre-printer form (layout alighment). Cambera can retrieve information like passport number from the document (OCR).

Downloads

• Download EDIsecure® C3000 datasheet