Speed and versatility

The Primacy printer is ultrafast, powerful, and efficient. Using advanced encoding technologies, this office printer is the ideal solution for printing personalized cards, from the simplest to the most secure.

Available as single or double-sided, Primacy especially meets card printing and encoding needs for medium and large runs.

Primacy is ideal for producing:

• Transport tickets
• Payment cards
• National ID cards
• Student cards
• Employee badges

Eco-design

As part of its eco-design approach which aims to reduce the environmental footprint of its products, Evolis:

• Prioritizes the use of recycled materials in the manufacturing of its printers and consumables,
• Designs compact and light printers to reduce CO2 emissions related to transport and packaging,
• Reduces the electrical consumption of its printers with a highly efficient prolonged standby mode.

GENERAL FEATURES

• Direct-to-card dye-sublimation/Resin thermal transfer
• Single-sided printing, edge-to-edge, upgrade kit for

dual-sided printing as an option

• 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
• Dual-sided Card Lamination Module (CLM) as an option
• Colors available: fire red & brilliant blue

PRINTING PERFORMANCES

• Single side:

- Color (YMCKO): 190 - 225 cards/hour

- Monochrome: 800 - 1000 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)
• Open output hopper as an option for collecting cards one

by one

• 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)

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

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 ports
• USB encoding over IP through additional USB Net Server

module, upon request

• 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 display as an option
• Graphical notifications from the printer2

: cleaning alerts,

empty/low level ribbon and card alerts, etc

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

List of ribbons available on www.evolis.com

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)