ID06 Zenius Card Printer

The next-generation printer for rewritable cards
  • Printing:Single-sided
  • Encoding:Magnetic stripes, Smart contact, Smart contactless
  • Card lifespan:1-3 years
  • Number of cards per year:Between 500 and 5,000
  • Card security level:High

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 (ErP Directive 2009) through a very economical hibernation mode.

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General 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 High Trust® ribbons

To maximize the quality and durability of printed cards, the lifespan of the print head and the overall printer reliability, use Evolis High Trust® ribbons.

  • Automatic identification and setting
  • Delivered in a drop-in cassette for easy handling
  • Ribbon saver for monochrome printing

 

Software

  • Delivered with Evolis Premium Suite® for Windows®:
    • Printer driver
    • Evolis Print Center for printer administration and settings
    • Evolis Printer Manager for graphical notification3
    • 24/7 online support
    • Compatible with Windows® (32/64 bits): XP SP3, Vista,W7, W8, W10
  • Delivered with cardPresso XXS Lite for designing and editing badges:
    • Internal database up to 50 records
    • Windows® (from XP onwards) and Mac OS X
  • Delivered with a driver for Mac OS X (from 10.5 onwards)
  • Linux OS upon request
  • Evolis Premium SDK for remote supervision of the printer, while facilitating and speeding up integrationinto IT systems

 

Eco-friendly design, certifications and statement of compliance

  • Standby, sleep modes & reduced energy consumption
  • CE, FCC, IEC, VCCI, CCC, KC, BIS, EAC
  • RoHS

 

Size and weight

  • Size (H x W x D): 195 x 205 x 315 mm (7.68’’ x 8.07’’ x 12.4’’)
  • Weight: 3.3kg (7.3lbs)

 

 

Warranty

  • 2-year warranty (printer and printhead)4
  • Warranty extension available as an option

 

1 Under specific conditions / 2 Depends on the Windows® version  / 3 Requires the .net 4.0 client profile version / 4 Warranty subject to observance of specific conditions and use of Evolis High Trust® ribbons.

Card printers

Product Code Color Product Description
ZN1U0000RS Fire Red Zenius Classic
Classic printer without option, USB
ZN1U0000TS Grey Brown Zenius Classic
Classic printer without option, USB
ZN1H0000RS Fire Red Zenius Expert
Expert printer without option, USB & Ethernet
ZN1H0000TS Grey Brown Zenius Expert
Expert printer without option, USB & Ethernet
ZN1HB000RS Fire Red Zenius Expert Mag ISO
Printer with Mag ISO Dual HiCo/LoCo 3-track magnetic stripe encoder, USB & Ethernet
ZN1H0T00RS Fire Red Zenius Expert Smart
Printer with GEMPC USB-TR Smart Card Encoder, USB & Ethernet
ZN1H00HSRS Fire Red Zenius Expert Contactless
Printer Contactless with SpringCard Crazy Writer HSP encoding module, USB & Ethernet
ZN1H0HLBRS Fire Red Zenius Expert Smart & Contactless
Printer with Evolis Elyctis Dual Smart Card and Contactless Encoder, USB & Ethernet
ZN1H0VVCRS Fire Red Zenius Expert Smart & Contactless
Printer with HID veriCLASS Dual Smart Card and Contactless Encoder, USB & Ethernet
ZN1H0CCMRS Fire Red Zenius Expert Smart & Contactless
Printer with Omnikey 5121 Cardman Smart Card and Contactless Encoder, USB & Ethernet

Options for Zenius Expert only

* For these encoding options, it is necessary to order the encoder’s mounting plate kit to finalize the installation of the options, only one plate per printer. 

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