Primacy card printer

The fast and versatile card printer

Printing:

Single-sided,

Encoding:

Magnetic stripes, Smart contact, Smart contactless

Card lifespan:

1-3 years

Number of cards per year:

More than 30,000

Card security level:

High

Extremely fast, powerful and efficient

The Primacy printer is extremely fast, powerful and efficient. Using advanced encoding technologies, this desktop printer is the best solution for issuing personalized cards, from the most simple to the most secure.

Primacy is available in single and dual-sided versions and is the ideal choice for printing and encoding cards in medium and large runs.

Primacy is ideal for instant issuance of:

• Employee badges
• Access control badges
• Transit passes
• Payment cards
• Healthcare cards
• Student cards
• Event 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 (ErP Directive 2009) through a very economical hibernation mode.

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.

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.

Professional printing

Primacy features 300 dpi photographic resolution and edge to edge printing for optimum print quality.
Thanks to an enhanced graphical processing, you get a faithful depiction of the images in high definition and more precise monochrome texts.

Ease of use

• The card feeder and hopper can be directly accessed on the front, so you can keep an eye on the printing.
• The Evolis High Trust® print ribbons are easy to install and automatically recognized by the printer.
• The printer adapts to how you use it:
  • From your computer: the Evolis Premium Suite® software lets you easily control the printer thanks to notifications on your screen.
  • From the printer: you can interact with the printer in real time using the optional LCD screen. This is ideal for over-the-counter uses (bank cards, travel cards, casino cards, loyalty cards, gift cards, and many more).

 

A long term vision

Scalability

You can upgrade your printer with magnetic stripe, contact or contactless chip encoders whenever you want.

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-sided printing, edge-to-edge
• Standard 300 x 300 dpi resolution
• Customizable 300 x 600 dpi resolution (color and monochrome printing) or 300 x 1200 dpi resolution (monochrome printing only)
• 32 MB memory (RAM) standard - optional 64 MB1

Printing performances¹

• Single side:
  • Color (YMCKO): 190 - 225 cards/hour
  • Monochrome: 800 - 1000 cards/hour

Interfaces

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

Cards management and specifications

• Feeder capacity: 100 cards (0.76 mm – 30 mil)
• Output hopper capacity: 100 cards (0.76 mm – 30 mil)
• Reject tray/output hopper capacity at the back: 50 cards (0.76 mm – 30 mil)
• Card thickness: 0.25 to 1.25 mm (10 to 50 mil), gauge adjustment (0.25 mm - 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)

Optional features

• Colors available: fire red & brilliant blue
• Upgrade kit for dual-sided printing
• Open output hopper for collecting cards one by one
• USB encoding over IP through additional USB Net Server module, upon request
• Locking system¹
• Wireless range: wireless connection 802.11b/g
• Color touch screen

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 (standard compliance: EPC C1 Gen2 / ISO18000-6C ETSI EN 302 208 or FCC part 15.247)
  • Other specific encoders upon request
• Internal USB or IP ports
• Options can be combined
• Factory-installed or installed on site

Safety

• Support for Kensington® security lock
• Data encryption for magnetic encoding¹
• Locking system as an option¹

Display

• Printer LEDs
• Color touch screen as an option
• Graphical notifications from the printer²: cleaning alerts, empty/low level ribbon and card alerts, etc.

Evolis High Trust^® Ribbon

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 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 for designing and editing badges:
  • Internal database (unlimited records)
  • Windows® (from XP onwards) and Mac OS X
• Delivered with a driver for Mac OS X (from 10.6 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, ICES, VCCI, CCC, KC, BIS, EAC
• RoHS

Size and weight

• Size (H x W x D):
  • 247 x 205 x 381 mm (9.72’’ x 8.07’’ x 14.99’’)
  • With reject tray/output hopper at the back:
  • 247 x 205 x 487 mm (9.72’’ x 8.07’’ x 19.17’’)

• Weight: 4.02 kg (8.86 lbs)
  • With reject tray/output hopper at the back:
  • 4.11 kg (9.06 lbs)

Production Pack Includes:

1x YMCKO ribbon

100 blank white cards

Cardpresso card design software XXS edition

Starter Cleaning Kit