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Evolis Zenius Card Printer

Description:

User-friendly, compact and cost-effective solution

The Zenius printer is designed for single-sided printing of any type of plastic cards.

Zenius generates color or monochrome cards, individually or in small runs, with top quality results.

Eco-design

As part of our eco-design system aimed at reducing the environmental footprint of our products, Evolis:

  • uses recycled materials in the manufacture of our printers and consumables whenever possible,
  • designs compact and lightweight printers to reduce CO2 emissions from transportation and packaging,
  • reduces the power consumption of its printers through a very economical hibernation mode.


Features:

  • Direct-to-card dye-sublimation/Resin thermal transfer
  • Single-sided printing, edge-to-edge
  • 300 dpi print head (11.8 dots/mm)
  • 16 million colors
  • 16MB memory (RAM), 32 MB for the Expert version
  • Colors available: fire red & grey brown

 

Printing performances

  • Color (YMCKO): 120 - 150 cards/hour1
  • Monochrome: 400 - 500 cards/hour

 

Additional encoding modules

  • Available modules on the Expert version:

    • Magnetic stripe encoder ISO 7811 HiCo/LoCo, JIS2
    • Smart contact station ISO 7816-2
    • Contact smart card encoder - PC/SC, EMV 2000-1
    • Contactless smart card encoder - ISO 14443A, B, ISO15693, Mifare, DesFire, HID iCLASS
    • Other specific encoders upon request
  • Internal USB ports
  • Options can be combined
  • Factory-installed or installed on-site

 

Interfaces

  • USB (1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0), cable supplied
  • Ethernet TCP-IP 10BaseT, 100BaseT (Traffic Led) on the Expert version
 

Safety

  • Support for Kensington® security lock

  • Data encryption for magnetic encoding

 

Display

  • Printer LEDs
  • Graphical notifications from the printer2: cleaning alerts, empty/low level ribbon alert, etc.

 

Card management and specifications

  • Automatic or manual feeding
  • Feeder capacity: 50 cards (0.76 mm - 30 mil)
  • Output hopper capacity: 20 cards (0.76 mm - 30 mil)
  • Card thickness: 0.25 to 0.76 mm (10 to 30 mil), gauge adjustment
  • Card types:
    • PVC cards
    • Composite PVC cards
    • PET cards
    • ABS cards1
    • Special varnished cards1
  • Card format: ISO CR80 - ISO 7810 (53.98 mm x 85.60 mm)
Evolis Zenius card printer