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As a market leader in mobile computers, barcode scanners and printers enhanced with software and services Zebra’s ZC series printers are an excellent solution to ID Card, Loyalty programs and Visitor Badging for your enterprise. This printers are a card printing solutions for the security, retail and hospitality industries, and education and finance institutions. Zebra’s award-winning design team created the ZC100 and the ZC300 series card printers to provide a seamless, user friendly experience.

Enhanced security features like a printer cover lock and reject card bin prevents card theft. Printer to host authentication firewalls and government-grade encryption features that help protect sensitive data in security sensative environments.

Offering a state of the art design with the slimmest profile and lowest clearance in its class, the ZC100 and ZC300 Series card printers can be installed in constrained spaces like under a counter or shelf. The ZC100 and ZC300 Series card printers feature an advanced card feeder that automatically adjusts to input card thickness. This effectively eliminates the error-prone process of manually adjusting for the variety of card sizes. Saloon style card output and input doors and new ribbon door design make the loading and unloading process easy.

The ZC100 and ZC300 Series card printer drivers (Print DNA)  offer a set of utilities and developer tools that make the printing experience better via boosted performance, remote manageability and easier integration. The printers also offer multiple connectivity options like Wi-Fi for simple integration.

The premium ZC350 card printer, an offshoot of the ZC300 series, offers a higher level of fast printing, smart card encoding and three new ribbons. Zebra ribbons feature built-in smart chips that automatically communicate to the device the type of media is being used and how much media is left to use. These new ribbons address security needs, robustness and allow for special effects by giving cards a high durability overlay panel. This allows the card to withstand damage, add marks to decrease counterfeit copies and metallic/3D capabilities to elevate a card’s look to fit your specific business needs.

Both the ZC300 and ZC350 card printers feature a graphical, easy-to-use color LCD with support for 10 languages. A new flipper module option enables dual-sided printing. This can be added as an upgrade.

Paired with Zebra’s CardStudio 2.0 software: a card design and issuance software package that is ideal for creating and printing high quality photo identification cards like employee badges, access control cards for facility access, membership cards, food safety labeling, event/seasonal passes and more. These printers are an elegant solution to your secure access and control needs!

Designed for high volume applications, the Fargo DTC4500e Dual Sided and DTC4500e Single Sided card printers include dual-input card hoppers and high-capacity ribbons that maximize productivity. The DTC series is modular and versatile. The DTC4500e printer offers many field upgradeable components like card lamination to produce durable, secure ID cards.

The DTC4500 professional printer is designed for large corporations and government organizations with high-volume needs. Each of these printers comes with Swift ID, that enables users to customize their ID badges. It is a plug-and-play printer. It is connected into a computer with a USB or Ethernet cable. Installing the printer drivers a user can access the application through a Web browser to design the badge. Fargo ID card printers are fully compatible with all operating systems, including Windows® 7, Windows® 8 (32 bit & 64 bit), MAC OS X 10.5/10.6/10.7/10.8 and Linux.

The Fargo DTC series of printers are also modular in design. This enables users to add functionality as their needs evolve. The options include card encoding—iCLASS, Mifare, DESFire—dual-sided printing, dual-input card hoppers, lamination capability and more.

Additional features of the FARGO DTC printer/encoders include:

• Enhanced security features, including printer password protection, fluorescent printing for cost effective and dynamic security and multiple custom holographic over-laminate options for added card durability and security
• The capability to print and inline encode technology cards in one pass through one physical connection (USB or Ethernet)
• A intuitive design that requires minimal maintenance and training, cartridge ribbon loading, color status indicators and SmartScreen graphical displays that are familiar to printer and copy machine users
• Interoperability with Genuine HID technology guaranteeing compatibility with all HID Access and ID solutions
• Three-year global warranty

Secure, versatile and powerful the DTC 4500e is packed with unique features to simplify ID card production and ensure card security. With standard printer password protection, holographic printing, Ethernet connectivity and RFID AND magnetic card encoding, the DTC4500e will to deliver secure credentials to meet your needs!

There are many solutions to protect your OCF(Original Camera Files,) provide off site backup and for the archival of your production footage. Netflix requires the use of LTO(Linear Tape Open) technology to protect your data. From their Partner Help Website:

MINIMUM EXPECTATIONS:

• 3:2:1 Principle

• Hold at least three copies of all original camera files (OCF) and audio.
• Store the copies on at least two different types of media.
  • Examples:
    • Capture Device (e.g., camera card or sound card)
    • RAID 5, 6, or 10 (or above) storage (RAID 0 is only acceptable for temporary transfer/shuttle drives, and not for backup purposes.)
    • LTO (6, 7 or 8 written in LTFS format)
    • Netflix’s Content Hub (pending Netflix approval)
• Keep at least one of these backups in a different geographical location from the others.

MLogic mTape drives are the ideal LTO storage solutions to meet Netflix’s data management requirements. They will provide the backup and verification of your data that Netflix requires of their partners. Data loss can mean losing a significant investment both in your planning and your shooting. This is including your OCF and audio throughout your workflow. The LTO Tape drives are designed to minimize data loss and costly failures during shooting.

LTO Tapes have been used in major data centers and research institutions for years. They offer not only huge storage capacity, low cost and long term storage performance. They also create “Air-Gap” data protection, phsically isolated from the network. This minimizes the risk of data damage or loss from cyber crime.

Despite the initial investment in LTO hardware, the price of the tapes are quite cheap, in comparison to using a portable hard drive to permanently store your data. You will need to use software like “myLTO” or “PreRoll Post” from Imagine Software. This is licensed software that you have to pay a yearly subscription fee to use.

The LaCie 1big Dock has two Thunderbolt 3 ports that are USB-C compatible and a docking station. It features one built-in USB 3.0 port, cinema-grade memory card slots (CFast 2.0, CFexpress and SD) and a DisplayPort 1.4 output connection, this allows direct connection to a 4K 120Hz or 8K 60Hz display. It boats 2 thunderbolt 3 ports that are USB-C compatable and a docking station. The Thunderbolt 3 ports can daisy chain up to six devices, including dual 6K or 8K displays, while a Thunderbolt adapter (sold separately) gives backwards compatibility with any generation Thunderbolt computer.

It can serve as a hub for peripherals, connecting a workstation with a single cable to reduce the need for extra dongles or adapters. The 1big Dock offers direct ingestion of content from SD cards, CompactFlash cards and USB devices.  The HDDs are 7200rpm drives with read speed up to 280MBps and write speed up to 240MBps. It uses Seagate IronWolf Pro enterprise-class hard drives. It also has a removable drawer to make it simple to swap in a new drive.

The LaCie 1big Dock can deliver up to 45W of power to a laptop or 30W when daisy-chaining compatible devices. With LaCie’s new Power Pass-Through feature even more charge for a laptop is available. Daisy-chain the laptop’s USB-C power cable to the 1big Dock and the laptop can receive up to 70W. This also frees up a USB-C port.

Available in two different types, the new 1big Dock SSD Pro is armed with a Seagate FireCuda NVMe SSD (2TB or 4TB), with Thunderbolt 3 ports, plus CFast 2.0 and CFexpress card readers. This allows for very high bitrate video, while the 1big Dock comes in 4TB, 8TB and 16TB HDD. The 1big Dock SSD Pro is “ideal for editing data-intense 6K, 8K, super slow motion, uncompressed video and VFX content”, with read speeds of up to 2800MBps, which can transfer up to 165GB worth of high-res material in 1 minute – its write speed is up to 2100MBps.

With a standard five-year limited warranty including Rescue Data Recovery Services, the 1big Dock SSD Pro is available here at (2TB) or (4TB), or get the 1big Dock (4TB), (8TB), (16TB). Own your data!

USB Flash drives are an easy, convenient way to transport data. Their major downfall is lack of security, in fact they are a downright headache if they get lost and stolen. The Aegis Secure Key 3z has you covered. It boasts hardware based 256-bit AES XTS(FPIS-140 Level 3 Security) encryption as well as being OS agnostic, meaning you can run it on ANY OS that recognizes USB mass storage.

Physically it is strong, aluminum made with a waterproof and dustproof design it isn’t bound to break or fail during normal use, it will even withstand extreme environments.It also has a polymer coated keypad that you use to enter the passcode to access the data on the device. The markings are laser etched, its internal components are coated in epoxy to ensure a lifetime of secure use. It also has an internal battery that charges every time you plug the device in. The firmware on the device is also locked to prevent tampering. 

It is simple to use, once a passcode is set it takes mere moments to unlock the drive. It auto-locks automatically after not being used, in case you get distracted. You can also program a ‘self-destruct’ passcode to erase all the data in moments as well.

For security and cross-device compatability the Secure Key 3z is a bargain. It is available in 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities. The Aegis Secure Key 3z is a well thought out device that protects your data that you need to have at your disposal in any environment.

We live in a most remarkable time. The impacts of COVID-19 are affecting the way we all live and work. AT TapeandMedia.com, as an essential business, we continue to stay open and operate in a safe work environment and exercise every safety measure out of an abundance of cation in accordance with WHO and CDC guidelines. We are shipping orders every day and work hard to ensure that our customers are continuing to receive the products that they need during these trying times. These safety measures have impacted our shipping carriers and their delivery times, we would like to inform you as top what these impacts are in order to set a proper expectation for you as to how it will affect the delivery of your order.

Below are the statements issued from our carriers, we post this in order to set a reasonable expectation with our customers so that they will understand that we are all doing the very best we can in these difficult times to deliver the products you need to you in as timely a manner as we possibly can.

As of March 24th, 2020 UPS suspended their service guarantee(UPS Money-back Guarantee.) As per their website:

• Constant monitoring of our air and ground networks to address potential sources of disruption in our air and ground networks.
• Compliance with applicable government regulations related to the containment of Coronavirus.
• Careful guidance and information being provided to our staff across the globe regarding the best ways to prevent the spread of infection, based on guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO). Please also see the FAQ below.
• Ability to track your deliveries worldwide on ups.com.
• Where available, you can sign up for the free (UPS My Choice) which enables you to provide more specific delivery instructions such as where to leave deliveries, where to redirect them and the ability to receive delivery notifications.

The US Postal Service issued this on their website:

The United States Postal Service is proud of the work our more than 600,000 employees play in processing, transporting, and delivering mail and packages for the American public. We provide a vital public service that is a part of this nation’s critical infrastructure. The Postal Service has a dedicated Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Command Response leadership team that is focusing on employee and customer safety in conjunction with operational and business continuity during this unprecedented epidemic. We continue to follow the strategies and measures recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and public health departments. The CDC has information available on its website at https://www.coronavirus.gov that provides the latest information about COVID-19.

To reduce health risks for our employees and customers and to safeguard our operational and business continuity, the Postal Service is doing the following:

• Ensuring millions of face coverings, including masks, gloves and cleaning and sanitizing products are available and distributed to more than 30,000 locations every day through our Postal Service supply chain. We also have opened up local purchasing authorities and sourcing options so that our employees can access additional supplies within the communities they serve. We have expanded our national sourcing of supplies and services to ensure that increasing demands are met.
  • Requiring that non-public facing Postal Service employees wear face coverings while at work, when proper social distancing cannot be achieved or maintained.
  • In the local and state jurisdictions where there is an ordinance for the mandatory use of face coverings, we are voluntarily aligning by requiring that our public-facing Postal Service employees use face coverings.
  • Requesting customers use face coverings while in our retail facilities located in jurisdictions that have implemented orders requiring use of face coverings by individuals within those jurisdictions.
  • Reinforcing workplace behaviors to ensure that contact among our employees and with our customers reflects the best guidance regarding healthy interactions, social distancing, and risk minimization. We have implemented measures at retail facilities and mail processing facilities to ensure appropriate social distancing, including through signage, floor tape, and “cough/sneeze” barriers. We have changed delivery procedures to eliminate the requirement that customers sign our Mobile Delivery Devices for delivery. For increased safety, employees will politely ask the customer to step back a safe distance or close the screen door/door so that they may leave the item in the mail receptacle or appropriate location by the customer door.
  • Updated our cleaning policies to ensure that all cleaning occurs in a manner consistent with CDC guidance relating to this pandemic.
  • Updated our leave policies to allow liberal use of leave and to therefore give our employees the ability to stay home whenever they feel sick, must provide dependent care, or any other qualifying factor under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. We have entered into agreements with our unions to provide 80 hours of paid leave to non-career employees for issues related to COVID-19, and have expanded the definition of sick leave for dependent care for covered employees to deal with the closures of primary and secondary schools across the country.
  • Leveraging localized continuity of operations plans that can be employed in the case of emergencies to help ensure that the nation’s postal system continues to function for the American people. With a longstanding history of quickly adapting its operational plans to changing conditions, the Postal Service maintains steady communications with mailers during natural disasters or other events that require emergency responses and advises residential customers and business mailers with regard to postal facility disruptions that may impact delivery in an affected area via its USPS Service Alerts webpage at: https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/. 

FedEx has put this statement out on their website to address the impacts to their supply chain interruptions due to Coronavirus:

FedEx service updates related to COVID-19:

• Due to the crucial role we play in moving supply chains and delivering critical relief, FedEx is considered an essential business and may continue to operate under state of emergency and shelter in place orders recently issued in the U.S.
• FedEx has suspended our money-back guarantee for all FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight and FedEx Office services effective immediately until further notice.
• We’ve suspended Signature Required for most shipments.
• To help mitigate the spread of COVID-19, we’ve updated store hours and available services for FedEx Office and other retail locations.
• Prior to shipping, check if the recipient business is open as some of them may have closed temporarily. 
• Take care of deliveries to your home with FedEx Delivery Manager

Fargo ID Card Printers 

When the discussion of what ID Card printer to buy comes up HID’s Fargo Line is still a leader. It is the first choice of the Government and corporations with controlled access and security. They have excellent print quality and have proven themselves reliable over the years.

Security

Many key features make these some of the most secure printers available. Print quality is high. This means that attempts to counterfeit your cards would be difficult to almost impossible. Any attempts to replicate your ID Cards without having the original design template, any nefarious actors will be unable to duplicate that exact look, even using a equivalent quality level ID printer. Fargo Azure software helps you use this to your advantage, using “microimages”. You see these used in currency and government IDs. The software designs an image that is extremely difficult to scan. Fargo printers can encode smart cards or magnetic stripe cards. It can utilize proximity technology in your business security system and encode all the cards on the fly. If you use RFID, most of these cards come pre-configured. The printer also has locking feeder and output bins to protect you card stock and new ID’s when they are printed from actual theft. 

Printing Volume

HID Fargo printers offer volume printing. It only takes about 24 seconds to print one card. You can complete 150 cards in just a single hour of printing. During encoding operations wile printing cards with a magnetic stripe, add a couple seconds on to each card. But overall, you can have a pile of cards ready with just a few short moments. The printer can magnetically encode smart cards or magnetic stripe cards. Utilizing proximity technology in your business security system, and encode all the cards on the fly. If you’re using RFID, most of these cards come pre-configured.

Print Quality

Fargo uses a technology known as dye sublimation to create the images. Dye sublimation is the process of vaporizing individual pigments into the clear overlay, which it then lays down on top of the card. This is good for several reasons. With most card printers, multiple passes are made over each card. Tiny alignment issues can happen as a result of the colors not lining up. This makes your print quality just seem “off.” Fargo has solved this problem using dye-sublimation.The cards can be fully laminated, making them extremely durable and wear resistant. Scratching or damage from friction impart a lot of wear on the cards and the lamination protects the image from this. Several key features make HID Fargo’s printers some of the most secure printers on the market. Print quality is high, attempts to replicate your card would result in obvious distortion. Their proprietary software can help you use this to your advantage. 

Big Data, Cloud Storage and Security are buzzwords in today’s enterprise environments. The amount of data being generated and stored is growing exponentially. LTO(Linear Tape Open) Tape’s high capacity and dependability provide users with years of security and protection at a considerably lower cost than comparable storage solutions. With Linear Tape File System(LTFS) it is easy to access, archive and protect the data that is crucial to you business operations. It delivers large storage capacity, lightening speed and makes it easy to view and share your files.

Low Cost

The cost per gigabyte for tape and disk continue to get lower. Tape has an edge over disk in total cost of ownership when floor space, energy use and equipment are all factored into calculating the cost. The cost of using LTO is less than a penny per gigabyte. Long term archiving requires thought on a multitude of factors; equipment, media, maintenance, energy cost, real estate(floor space.) These costs can be significant and it is important that capacity is maximized while minimizing overhead cost. For long term data storage LTO technology has a 577% return on investment(Based on ESG study.) That is amazing considering you can utilize the extra capital in areas of your business that need it the very most.

Security

Data is valuable, so is protecting it. Online data storage solutions are susceptible to compromise and corruption from multiple threats. It can be hacked by Black Hat actors, destroyed by natural disaster, a RAID folder can just be accidentally deleted or a system error can destroy files. Three out of four businesses have experienced a data disaster that exposed them to damage.Software gets corrupted, viruses infect computers exposing personal information. LTO solves these problems by isolating your sensitive data from the bugs and viruses that occur during continuous disc backup. It provides a true gap that protects you data from viruses and ransomware threats. It has hardware based encryption that provides tape level algorithm that has no effect on compression, performance or capacity. A WORM(Write Once Read Many) option can store data in a non-re-writable format, addressing compliance regulations. LTO is a safe option to ensure your data is protected and secure.

Sustainability

Tape technology, being largely inert, produces almost zero CO2 over the same time frame as disc. Although hidden the environmental costs of data storage are actually substantial. Running all year long three petabytes of storage can produce over 14 metric tons of CO2. With this in mind environmentally conscious companies are moving rarely accessed data to tape in order to reduce the amount of carbon emissions from their operations. LTO tape beats both could and disc in carbon footprint reduction. HDD systems use 70 times the energy as a tape system.

Dependability

Tape storage delivers a better bit error rate than disc, giving you the confidence to know you data will be there when you need it! It has a shelf life of 30 years. Once your data is written there is no need to worry about it. It WILL be there. Once it is written it is immediately verified by the “Read After Write” technology. By diversifying your storage practice(Disc-Disc-Tape) is the best you ensure you data will always be available. Even when a disaster strikes with LTO you can rest knowing your vital data is safe.

Streaming Performance

The latest generation of LTO Tape Drives can maintain a compressed data transfer rate of up to 750MB/Second this means that it can handle the most demanding applications. The IDC predicts that the amount of data will reach more than 163 zettabytes by 2025. Accessing and analyzing this data is crucial to application performance. Can tape do this? YES! It is a misconception that tape is slower than disc, in fact it is FASTER. Data transfer on tape is straightforward and with LTO 8 technology you can enjoy read/write speeds of 360 MB/Second as compared to the typical 7,200 RPM hard drive at 160MB/Second. So if performance is a consideration know that tape actually outperforms other storage technologies on the market.

Portability

Tapes are durable and portable. Far less fragile than a hard drive. They can be inexpensively transported and stored. With the operating system’s graphical file management system and directory tree, utilizing the data on an LTO cartridge is a drag and drop operation. It can be used across multiple hardware platforms.Think of LTO as “low-cost high bandwidth in a box”

LTO 8 provides 12TB per cartridge(30 TB compressed,) LTO 9 24Tb per cartridge(60TB compressed.) It is a safe, secure, reliable and fast storage solution that protects your vital data.

LaCie has a new SSD external drive for videographers and other professionals who work in the field and need a fast, rugged storage solution for their data. It is light and small enough to fit in your pocket or bag nicely and not take up too much space! It has a USB-C 3.1 Generation 1 and 2 ports, with a Thunderbolt 3 equipped computer you can maximize this drives features! 

To achieve its mind bending speed it uses a Seagate FireCuda NVMe SSD and Thunderbolt 3 interface, this rates at an impressive 2,800MBps for reads and writes! In addition to having the USB-C ports and Thunderbolt-3 connectivity; it is rugged! The LaCie drive locks out dust, water and is crush resistant. It can withstand being submerged in shallow water for 30 minutes and you don’t have to ensure the Thunderbolt-3 flap is closed over the port. It is constructed with an aluminum case and further protected with a silicon skin that gives it enough “grab” to prevent it from sliding around! Its black case is only .7″ by 2.6″ by 3.9″ making it compact and easy to fit into a jacket, shirt or vest pocket! The drive’s drop tolerance is rated at 3 meters and is designed to withstand a crushing force of 4,410 pounds(2,000kgs.) These stats put it in a league of its own! The LaCie Rugged SSD Pro also comes with a 5 year warranty.

Its the little things that make life better! The Rugged SSD has one USB Type-C Port and includes a single USB-C to USB-C cable. Both cable and port support Thunderbolt 3. Which is crucial if you plan on taking advantage of the Thunderbolt 3 speeds out in the field. There is a status indicator light next to the port so you are aware of when it is in operation. The drive comes pre-formatted to using exFAT, so it will work with both PCs and Macs. If you don’t plan on switching between OS’s you can format it as you please.

Included with the hardware is “LaCie Toolkit,” via download, the aforementioned five year warranty and five years of Rescue Data Recovery Service. After the installation when ToolKit loads you will be given the option to reformat the drive, if you defer this option you will have to do it via your OS later. The ToolKit includes backup and restore, mirroring which are both part of the Seagate Sync Plus App. Mirroring allows you to specify the folder you would like the portable drive to sync with on your computer, it is done automatically whenever you edit or move files. The Backup and Restore tools let you choose full or partial backups to run continuously, one time only, hourly, daily, weekly or monthly(Windows Only.) LaCie assumes if you use a Mac that you are utilizing Time Machine for backups.

For users of portable SSD Drives the LaCie Rugged SSD is a market leader. it is extremely fast and rugged! Available in 1TB and 2TB versions at TapeandMedia.com! Your source for the tools you need to secure and store your data!