Primacy Card Printer: Bar Code Thermal Printers

Precise image quality, versatile, extremely reliable

Primacy is a high-end printer that is easy-to-use, flexible and fast.

When loaded with the Evolis cutting-edge encoding technologies, Primacy turns into the ideal solution to issue cards.

Primacy supports any requirement in card printing and encoding, in medium to large runs . This is the perfect option to deliver:

•transportation passes

•payment cards

•identification badges

• as well as multi-feature cards:student cardsfor example

Primacy is the quickest, most powerful and highest-performance office card printer in its category

Powerful

Primacy is perfect for production runs:

• Print up to 225 cards/hour in colour, 850 cards/hour in monochrome

• Start a run of 100 cards : no need to reload cards thanks to the 100-card capacity of both feeder and output hopper

• The 250-card capacity of the colour ribbon cassette (YMCKO) saves your time by reducing the frequency with which the ribbon needs to be changed

General features

• Single-sided or dual-sided printing module, edge to edge printing

• Color dye sublimation , monochrome thermal transfer

• 300 dpi print head (11.8 dots/mm)

• 16MB Memory (RAM)

Printing performances

• Single side :

Color (YMCKO) : 190 - 225 cards /hour1

Monochrome : 600 - 850 cards /hour

• Dual side (YMCKO-K) : 140 cards /hour

Card management and specifications

• Feeder capacity: 100 cards (0.76 mm - 30 mil)

• Output hopper capacity: 100 cards (0.76 mm - 30 mil)

• Reject tray: 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 cards for monochrome printing only)

• Types of cards: Types of cards : All PVC, Composite PVC cards, PET, RPET, ABS1 and special varnished1 cards

• Card format ISO CR80 - ISO 7810 (53.98mm 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

Interfaces

• USB 1.1 (supports 2.0)

• Ethernet TCP-IP 10BaseT, 100BaseT (Traffic Led)

• Optional 802.11b/g wireless connection2

Display

• Printer LEDs

• Graphical notifications3 from the printer: Empty input hopper alert, cleaning alerts, empty/low level ribbon alert

Software

• Delivered with Evolis Premium Suite® for Windows:

Printer driver

Evolis Print Center for printer management and settings

Printer Manager for bi-directional graphical notification4

Compatible with Windows™: XP SP3 32/64 ; Vista 32/64, W7 32/64, W8 32/645

• Delivered with eMedia CS Card Designer, Standard Edition, unlimited version (supports WindowsTM 8, 7 and Vista)

• Delivered with a driver for Mac OS X (from 10.5 onwards)

• Other OS: Linux upon request

Warranty

Two years limited depot warranty (North America and EU only). Elsewhere 1 year limited warranty.