What if you could...

• Help protect confidential documents by releasing print jobs only to the right user?
• Enhance the security of networked printers by easily and accurately authenticating users?
• Support a wide variety of proximity cards with one common reader?
• Meet HIPAA requirements for log-on readers?

Solution at a glance

Help protect your company's confidential information and control printing access by requiring users to authenticate at your imaging and printing devices with your existing proximity cards. In the past, the wide variety of proximity cards on the market made it expensive and cumbersome to support authentication via cards, HP Common Proximity Card Readers offer support for multiple card formats in a single card reader.

Improve productivity

Simplify login at the printer or MFP by tapping an ID badge to transmit credentials.
-HP Proximity Card Readers merge security with convenience for end users.

Accurate authentication

Enhance accuracy and accountability with a card reader designed to eliminate errors associated with individual identification at the device. When used as log-on readers, HP Proximity Card Readers even meet HIPAA requirements in the healthcare field.

Wide-ranging, versatile support

HP Proximity Card Readers, which support both HP and select Non-HP devices, communicate to the host through USB or CF using the MFP 24 protocol. HP Universal USB Proximity Card Reader and HP Common CF Proximity Card Reader are engineered to work with many protocols-and HP offers four additional proximity card readers to offer specialized support for specific classes or cards.

HP Common Proximity Card Readers are dual band card readers, capable of reading 125 kHz and 13.56 MHz frequencies simultaneously. They can read two different card configurations, including frequency, card type and data formatting.

HP Universal Proximity Card Readers are capable of easily configuring the reader's beeper volume and can read four different card configurations simultaneously. This card reader has a built-in SIM slot that can be used for additional card types.

• With its card reading capability this card reader access device provides access control and security assurance
• The proximity technology delivers powerful and heightened security with convenience, affordability and reliability
• Suitable for controlling print job authentication security