Zebra ZC300 Double Sided Card Printer

Overview

Groundbreaking Simplicity
With plug-and-play deployment, instant card feeder adjustment, intuitive icons and a graphical user interface, the ZC300 Series is easy to integrate, use and manage. Ribbon changing is virtually fool-proof, and a revolutionary hopper design makes loading and unloading cards easier than ever.

Boundless Card Design Options
The ZC300 Series is loaded with advanced card production features. Print what you want, when you want, from just about anywhere – single or dual-sided edge-to-edge monochrome and color cards, with new ribbons that offer specialty colors and special effects.

Fits Everywhere Design
Even though the ZC300 Series is built for business, it has the consumer good looks required to fit in customer facing areas–from the corporate office to the university to the retail store. And the printer cover lock provides security by preventing theft of card stock and rejected cards.

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.

Specification

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

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 recyclable cartridge.
Ribbon Description Cartridge Image Count
YMCKO* 200
YMCKO* 300
YMCKOK* 200
½ YMCKO* 400
½ 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


*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

*Note: Spot color or monochrome printing recommended only on >20 mil thick cards and CR79 cards.

Operating Characteristics
Operating Temp. 59º F to 95º F/15º C to 35º C
Storage Temp. 23º F to 158º F/-5º C to 70º C
Operating Humidity 20% to 80% non-condensing
Media Storage — Temperature: 41º F to 77º F/5º C to 25º 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
Dimensions Single Sided
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
Dual Sided
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

Single Sided
8.8 lbs (4.0kg)
Dual Sided
9.7 lbs (4.4 kg)

Communications and Interface Capabilities
USB 2.0
Standard
Built-in 10/100 Ethernet Standard
802.11ac 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)1

Printer Drivers
Microsoft Windows Certified

Windows Server 2008 (32 and 64 bit),
Windows 7 (32 bit and 64 bit)
Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
(32 bit and 64 bit compatible)
Windows Server 2012 (64 bit)
Windows 10 (32 bit and 64 bit)
Windows Server 2016

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 16..X (64 Bit)
Apple MAC OS X 10.13.X (64 bit)
Please see www.zebra.com for an up-to-date listing of supported systems.

Additional Optional Features

Card flipper for dual-sided printing1
10 card reject bin is standard with dual-sided printers
Lockable enclosure1

Footnotes
Field upgradeable options

Specifications subject to change without notice.