Card Punching System For Small Volumes At Drupa 08

Spartanics' new M510 Compact Card Punching System for plastic cards is now available worldwide.

To be seen at Drupa 2008 on the Spartanics stand in hall 11 - stand B27 - the M510 Compact Card Punching System is said to be designed for the requirements of printers, card manufacturers and other companies producing small volumes of 5,000 - 86,000 cards a day, for example The system is claimed to be suitable for producing hotel key fobs, loyalty cards, phone cards, gift cards, membership cards and other plastic cards in standard CR80 formats

The M510 Compact Plastic Card Punching System incorporates Spartanics' electro-optical registration technology.

The system is claimed to provide maximum outputs of 9,000 cards per hour produced at 50 strokes per minute.

The M510 is described as being of the size of a photocopier.

It a manually loaded and has an optional standard three-up CR80 dies, which need sharpening every one million strokes, or long-life higher priced standard three-up CR80 dies.

The latter's sharpening is need after three million strokes.

Installation, setup and training are also available at an additional cost.

The M510 is the latest addition to the Spartanics plastic card punching systems range, which also includes the M512 (for one-up, or two-up), M535 (for three-up - five-up), M560 (for six-up - 10-up) and M580 (for identity cards).

Paul Dirienzo, Spartanics director of engineering, commented: "This inexpensive plastic card punching system is geared to allow newcomers to take advantage of the highly profitable card manufacturing niches for an initial investment in the 10s of 1000s dollars range instead of the hundreds of thousands of dollars required for more sophisticated high volume card punching systems.".

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