Identification card printer

An identification card printer comprising:

• a card cartridge including a housing having an interior cavity that is sized to accommodate a stack of cards, a pair of opposing side walls, a top, a base, a front wall, a back wall opposite the front wall, and a card output slot, the base having first and second apertures that form a card access;
• a cartridge receiver adapted to receive the card cartridge;
• and
• a card transport mechanism including a pair of feed rollers, portions of which extend into the cartridge receiver and through the card access of the card cartridge when the card cartridge is seated on the cartridge receiver, the feed rollers defining a card transport plane.