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Flexible and Secure Card printing with Ground-Breaking Simplicity No matter what type of card you need to print — from identity and access to membership, event and credit/debit cards — the ZC300 will help you do it better, faster and easier. Elegant engineering eliminates virtually all pain points associated with card printing. The result is push-button simplicity no matter what you are printing — single or dual-sided magnetic stripe or contactless cards, in color or black and white. And with a ground-breaking fits-everywhere design, you can get secure card printing wherever you need it. The ZC300 Series — card printing made simple.
Highly graphical LED/LCD interface The ZC300 offers highly-intuitive well-tested icons, animations and text-based messages in your own language, allowing any user to easily understand what the printer needs and how to perform virtually any function — including how to clear a printer jam, fix a ribbon, load a ribbon or cards and more.
Painless plug-and-play deployment The ZC300 is designed to work right out of the box. There’s no time-consuming complicated set-up — just plug it in and start reaping the benefits the day your printer arrives.
Groundbreaking new driver with a graphical user interface The intuitive interface in the newly-designed driver makes it easier than ever to print cards. Settings are grouped logically into tabs where they are easily accessible with a click. A visual display of your card makes printing simple monochrome and complex color cards equally easy, allowing you to instantly see how your card looks and how setting changes impact card design — eliminating the time and cost to repeatedly print test cards.
A new ingenious card feeder handles varying card thickness on-the-fly The card feeder instantly adjusts to the thickness of each card — no more guessing and adjusting for different card stocks.
Revolutionary new hopper design The completely re-designed hopper makes loading and unloading cards easier than ever. With saloon-style output doors, there’s nothing to open — just grab one card or a whole stack of cards. And the input and output hoppers have the same capacity, reducing the need to refill and empty the hoppers.
Fool-proof ribbon changing Changing a ribbon has never been so simple and uncomplicated — no instructions required. The newly designed ribbon door latch unlocks and opens in one motion. The unique door-handle style grip leaves no question about how to remove or insert the ribbon. The snug-fit design has no play or adjacent open areas, so there’s never a question about whether the ribbon is installed correctly and in the proper place. And with embedded smartchips, you always know when to change the ribbon.
• 300 dpi (11.8 dots/mm) print resolution • 2 GB flash memory • Image size: 1006 x 640 pixels • Auto calibration of ribbon • USB 2.0 and Ethernet 10/100 connectivity • 100 card capacity auto-adjusting input hopper (30 mil) • 100 card capacity output hopper (30 mil) • Manual card feeding capability with LED bezel • Graphical color LCD • 3 Tricolor printer status indicator lights • Kensington. secure lock slot • Print Touch NFC tag for online printer help and documentation access • Printer host authentication • Data encryption • Two-year unlimited warranty on printer and printhead
Printing Specifications
• Dye-sublimation thermal transfer direct to card print method • Full-color or monochrome printing • Single and dual-sided printing • Edge-to-edge printing on standard CR-80 media Printing throughput (cards per hour) based on batch printing with USB connectivity. Times may vary depending on the computer configuration. • 900 cards/hour single sided monochrome • 200 cards/hour single-sided YMCKO • 140 cards/hour dual-sided YMCKOK • 450 cards/hour dual sided monochrome
Media Specifications
Supplies Specifications: NOTE: The ZC300 printer is designed to work only with Zebra genuine ribbons. Ribbons are included in a simple-to-load cartridge. Ribbon Description Cartridge Image Count YMCKO* 200 YMCKO* 300 YMCKOK* 200 . YMCKO* 400 . YMCKOKO* 250 KrO* 700 KdO* 700 Black Monochrome* 2000 Black Monochrome 1500 White Monochrome* 1500 Red Monochrome 1500 Blue Monochrome 1500 Gold Monochrome 1500 Silver Monochrome 1500 Ribbon availability may vary by region. • *Zebra intelligent technology automatically detects and authenticates ribbon • Cleaning roller is included with each ribbon • Two available cleaning kit options: your choice of two (2) or five (5) isopropyl alcohol cleaning cards (1,000 images/card) Card Compatibility: NOTE: For optimum print quality and printer performance, use of Genuine Zebra supplies is recommended. • Card Thickness: 10-40 mil • Card Size: CR80 ISO 7810 ID-1 format, CR79 • Card Material: PVC and PVC composite • Adhesive back and writable back cards • Spot color or monochrome printing only on < 20 mil thick cards and CR79 cards
Operating Characteristics
Environmental Operating Temperature: 59. F to 95. F/15. C to 35. C Storage Temperature: 23. F to 158. F/-5. C to 70. C Operating Humidity: 20% to 80% non-condensing Storage Humidity: 20% to 90% non-condensing Media Storage: — Temperature: 41. F to 77. F/5. C to 25. C — Humidity: 35% to 65% non-condensing Electrical • Auto-switching single-phase AC power • Operating range: 90-132VAC and 190-264VAC RMS • Frequency range: 47-63 Hz • FCC Class A
Physical Characteristics
SINGLE SIDED Dimensions 10.2 in. H x 6.2 in. W x 15.1 in. D 258 mm H x 157 mm W x 383 mm D Weight 8.8 lbs (4.0kg) DUAL SIDED Dimensions 10.2 in. H x 6.2 in. W x 18.4 in. D 258 mm H x 157 mm W x 468 mm D Weight 9.7 lbs (4.4 kg)
Communications and Interface Capabilities
USB 2.0 — Standard Built-in 10/100 Ethernet — Standard 802.11ac with MFi — Optional
Encoding Options and Specifications
• Magnetic stripe encoder — ISO 7811 (new and pre-encoded; tracks 1, 2, and 3; high and low coercivity; stripe down and stripe up with duals-sided printers) * • Third party contactless encoder integration kit* *Field upgradeable options
Printer Drivers
Microsoft Windows Certified Windows Server. 2003 (32 bit) Windows Server 2008 (32 and 64 bit), Windows 7 (32 bit and 64 bit) Windows 8 and Win 8 Pro (32 bit and 64 bit compatible) Windows Server 2012 (64 bit) Windows 10 (32 bit and 64 bit) Windows drivers include: • Color coded printer status indicators for the operator • Black panel extraction and controls for specialty ribbon panels with image preview • Configuration utility to limit access by operators to change image quality and printer settings • Advanced printer configuration, security settings and diagnostics capabilities Linux Ubuntu Apple iOS 10.2
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