Card Printer Service

After investing in a card printer, it is important to have the support you need in the event technical issues arise. Although we recommend that you have your card printer serviced on a yearly basis for basic product sustainability. There are other options available.

AB&R Depot Service Agreements

Organizations can reduce the cost of printer downtime, due to lost productivity and unbudgeted repair costs by selecting an AB&R Card Depot service agreement.

Depot service agreements for card printers allow organizations to:

1. Plan and budget annual service needs
• Downtime repair charges are at a minimum or non-existent with your AB&R service agreement that locks in your repair price and guarantees your repair time.
• POs cost between $40 and $98 to create, manage, and fulfill, plus the cost of the PO and time taken by administration to produce the P.O.

2. Reduce the time & materials charges associated with out-of-service printers and increase up-time with your AB&R service agreement.

Hot Swap

Printer downtime can also be reduced by adding on a Hot Swap Loaner to your AB&R service agreement, which provides overnight shipment of a loaner printer while your card printer is being repaired.

Technical Support

American Barcode and RFID also offers in-house telephone technical support assistance with your card printer technical needs. Our toll free service department phone number is 877-456-3141.

Hot Spare Repair

This option provides a loaner ("spare") printer to be shipped over-night priority delivery from AB&R the same business day, if the client request is received before 12:00 noon Arizona time, M-F. Once the "spare" unit is received simply return the failed unit to AB&R for repair. Once your card printer is repaired, we ship it back to you then you return the loaner to us. Simple, fast and effective!

AB&R Time & Materials Depot Repair

AB&R offers our non-contract time & materials depot repair service for those clients who have plenty of spares on hand and can wait up to ten business days for repair. Our time & materials depot repair rate is $129.00 per hour (one hour minimum) plus parts and shipping. Simply call our toll free service dept. at 877-456-3141 to get an RMA for repair of your card printer.