Evolis Zenius Card Printer

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.

• 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)