Primacy Card Printer

Gain time and improve your productivity

Enhanced productivity

Primacy is perfect for printing large runs because it personalizes color cards in record time: up to 225 cards per hour for single-sided printing and 140 cards per hour for dual-sided. You save time and increase productivity.

 Professional printing

Primacy printers feature 300 dpi photographic resolution and edge to edge printing for optimum print quality. Your cards convey a professional image of your organization.

 Ease of use

• The card feeder and output tray are directly accessible on the front of the printer, so you can check the cards as they come out.
• With the Evolis Premium Suite® software you can receive notifications and easily control the printer from your computer.
• Evolis High Trust® ribbons are easy to install and automatically recognized by the printer.

 

High capacity

The large capacity card feeder and output tray hold 100 cards - so you don’t have to refill the printer as often. Primacy offers high capacity in a compact footprint.

 A long term vision

 Scalability

You can upgrade your printer according to your needs by adding magnetic stripe, contact or contactless chip encoders.
The printer can be factory configured for dual sided printing, or the function can be activated on site.

 Lasting investment

Primacy benefits from Evolis’ experience and proven quality control to ensure optimum performance and perfect results. We back up our strong commitment to quality with our 3-year standard warranty.

General features

• Direct-to-card Dye-sublimation/Resin Thermal Transfer
• Single or dual-sided printing, edge-to-edge
• Standard 300 x 300 dpi resolution
• Customizable 300 x 600 dpi resolution or 300 x 1200 dpi resolution (monochrome printing only)
• 32 MB memory (RAM) standard – optional 64 MB

 Printing performances

• Single side:
  • Color (YMCKO): 190 - 225 cards/hour¹
  • Monochrome: 600 - 850 cards/hour
• Dual side:
  • Color (YMCKO-K): 140 cards/hour

 Optional features

• Colors available: fire red & brilliant blue
• Upgrade kit for dual-sided printing
• USB encoding over IP through additional USB Net Server module, upon request
• Locking system
• Wireless range: wireless connection 802.11b/g

 Additional encoding modules

• Available modules:
  • 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, UHF encoder: ETSI (EN 302 208) or FCC (part 15.247) standard compliance: EPC C1 Gen2 / ISO18000-6C
  • Other specific encoders upon request

• Internal USB or IP ports
• Options can be combined
• Factory installed or installed on-site

 Interfaces

• USB (1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0)
• Ethernet TCP-IP 10BaseT, 100BaseT (Traffic Led)
• 802.11b/g wireless connection on the Wireless range

• Feeder capacity: 100 cards (0.76 mm - 30 mil)
• Output hopper capacity: 100 cards (0.76 mm - 30 mil)
• Reject tray capacity: 30 cards (0.76 mm - 30 mil) 
• Card thickness: 0.25 to 1.25 mm (10 to 50 mil), gauge adjustment (0.25mm / 10 mil only for monochrome printing)
• 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^®: XP SP3 32/64, Vista 32/64, W7 32/64, W8 32/64
• Delivered with cardPresso XXS for designing and editing badges:
  •  Internal database (unlimited records)
  • Operating systems:
    - Windows®: XP SP3 32/64, Vista 32/64, W7 32/64, W8 32/64
    - 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 integration into 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

 Power

• Power supply: 100-240 Volts AC, 50-60 Hz, 1.8 A
• Printer : 24 Volts DC, 2,71 A

 Operating environment

• Min/max operating temperature: 15° / 30° C (59° / 86° F)
• Humidity: 20% to 65% non-condensing
• Min/max storage temperature: -5° / +70° C (23° / 158° F)
• Storage humidity: 20% to 70% non-condensing
• Operating ventilation: open air

 Sound (evaluated according to the ISO 7779 standard)

Sound pressure in assistant position LpAm (color mode YMCKO):

• When operating: 48dB (A)
• In sleep mode: background noise level

 Packaging content

• Printer
• CD-ROM with printer drivers, user manuals
• Cleaning kit
• USB cable
• Reject tray
• Power supply and cord

 Warranty

• 3-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.

Simplex card printers

Duplex card printers

Options

* 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.

Accessories for card printer