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.
Zenius is ideal for instant issuance of single sided cards:
- Employee badges
- Access control badges
- Membership cards
- Loyalty cards / gift cards
- Transit passes
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.
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
| Ribbons | Ribbon capacities |
|---|---|
| YMCKO | 200 prints / roll |
| ½ YMCKO | 400 prints / roll |
| KO | 600 prints / roll |
| Black monochrome ribbon | 2000 prints / roll |
| Other monochrome ribbons | 1000 prints / roll |
| Hologram varnish | 400 prints / roll |
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 (7.68ââ x 8.07ââ x 12.4ââ)
- 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.
