Evolis Card Printer

– Evolis designs, manufactures and markets plastic card printers, using the latest computer, mechanical and electronic technology.
– Our philosophy is to design multi-use printers suitable for all plastic card applications and data encoding.
– With its thermal transfer and colour sublimation technology, our plastic card solutions personalise and print any student cards, leisure membership cards, company badges, access controls, customer loyalty cards...


Evolis ID card printer

What is a card printer and why Evolis?

Evolis is a manufacturer of card printers, one of the world leaders in its sector: the printing and personalization of PVC plastic cards and badges. Its Evolis Badgy, Evolis Zenius and Evolis Primacy Simplex or Duplex printers are among the best-selling badge printers. But what is the origin of Evolis Card Printer and what are its printers for?

Evolis Badgy 200

Evolis Badgy is the inexpensive mini badge printer for printing your PVC cards

Evolis Badgy 200 is the mini badge printer from Evolis Card Printer. An innovative printer which offers a small footprint and which is also the cheapest Evolis badge printer. Badgy provides access to the Evolis range with a lower investment than Zenius, Primacy Simplex or Primacy Duplex. With its recommended retail price of € 749 excl. Tax, the Badgy200 printer prints your cards instantly easily and quickly.

Evolis Zenius

Evolis Zenius entry level Pro printer in the Evolis color PVC card printing range

Evolis Zenius is compact, easy to use, with a nice presentation. A high quality print card printer at an unbeatable price. Evolis Zenius is the ideal solution for single side printing on PVC cards with a high quality in color or black. Evolis Zenius Expert encodes your magnetic or smart cards (smart card, MIFARE card etc ...).

Evolis Primacy

Evolis Primacy is a high-end PVC card printer

Evolis Primacy is an ID card printer that combines great looking prints and simple-to-use interface never known before. It replaces the Evolis Pebble single sided and Evolis Dualys double-sided printers. Depending on its configuration, it allows single-sided or double-sided printing and encoding of magnetic and RFID badges at the best price. Evolis Primacy provides a fast card printing speed and allows real versatility for all your personnalization needs on plastic cards.

Evolis Edikio: price tags in card format

Revolutionize your shopwindow with innovative price tags in PVC card format

Evolis Edikio is the new solution to enhance your business image, by changing the label creation. Forget the paper labels problem that involve poor presentation, updating prices difficulty, and complicated readability... Get your card format price tags and easily present all the elements required by the norm or useful to the consumer: price, presence of allergen, origin of the product... We offer you the price tags printer, ideal for hotel, bakery, florist, caterer, buffet, fishmonger ...

Evolis Quantum

Evolis Quantum means industrial card printing with the flexibility of an office printer

The Quantum PVC card printer is designed for issuing and encoding identification badges in industrial volume. It personalizes plastic cards on the front and back, in color or monochrome, and encodes them in a single pass. A powerful and easy-to-use PVC card printing system that for badge printing volumes greater than the capacity offered by Evolis Primacy and Evolis Zenius printers.

Evolis Kiosk

Evolis Kiosk is a printing and encoding system for issuance of PVC cards on demand in ATMs

Evolis Kiosk is a plastic card printer encoder designed specifically to be integrated into kiosks or ATMs, and be able to deliver instantly any printed and encoded cards on demand. Evolis Kiosk offers impeccable quality since its badge printing engine is based on that of its sisters Evolis Zenius and Evolis Primacy.

Evolis Tattoo2 Rewrite

Monochrome printer to personalize rewritable cards

Small revolution with the Evolis Tattoo Rewrite printer: now it is possible to reprint the same ID card up to 500 times! Deleting and re-printing the same PVC card allows it to be assigned to the next customer or visitor, with the corresponding ease, savings and environmental protection. The rewrite card is the ideal identification badge for all applications where the duration of use of a card is very short (visitor management, customer loyalty, transport tickets).

YMCKO 5 panel colour ribbon 200 cards

Evolis R3011 ribbon for color printing on Pebble or Dualys printer

The Evolis R3011 ribbon has long been the flagship ribbon for the Evolis range of consumables: it is compatible with Evolis Pebble, Evolis Dualys and Evolis Quantum. The Evolis R3011 ribbon prints 200 badges in color single-sided. Permanent stock and the best price from A3M, wholesaler of Evolis card printers.

1/2 YMCKO half-panel colour ribbon 400 cards

Great savings with the Evolis half-panel colour printing ribbon

Evolis R5H004NAA ribbons for Zenius and Primacy printers and Evolis R3013 (for old Pebble and Dualys printers) are half-panel color ribbons. This type of ribbon offers significant cost savings for personalization of colored cards with photo. Ideal for personalizing badges and personal identification cards, membership cards with photos, membership cards, business cards.

6 panel YMCKOK ribbon 200 cards

The Evolis R3314 ribbon ribbon prints your cards front in color and back in black

The Evolis R6F003EAA ribbon for Primacy printers as well as the Evolis R3314 ribbon for older Evolis Dualys, Evolis Quantum and Evolis Securion printers are 6-panel YMCKOK ribbons. This type of ribbon is designed to print cards in color on the front side and in black on the backside. At the base identical to the standard YMCKO ribbon, it has an additional black resin panel. This sixth panel is generally used for printing double-sided cards for printing black text on the back of the PVC card.

Black ribbon for personalisation

Evolis black ribbon to personalize ID cards with black texts and barcodes

The Evolis black thermal transfer ribbon is used to personalize plastic cards with text elements, numbering, 1D, 2D or QR Code barcode. The Evolis black ribbon is easy to use, economical and highly resistant to scratching.

Monochrome ribbons

Ink ribbon for monochrome printing on Evolis PVC card printers

Monochrome Evolis High Trust ® ribbons allow you to quickly and cheaply personalize pre-printed plastic cards or white cards. Monochrome ribbons allow you to print only one color per print. It is possible to pass the card twice through the printer, for example, by changing the ribbon color in the meantime, to obtain a card printed in two colors. The range of Evolis monochrome ribbons can be used with the Evolis Zenius printer and Evolis Primacy printer ( Simplex and Duplex ).

Discontinued products

Evolis Tattoo 2

Contact us to purchase printing ribbons for your Evolis Tattoo printer or if you are looking to buy a used Tattoo printer.

Evolis Tattoo was for several years the cheap printer of Evolis. Its production was stopped in favor of the Badgy printer, but if you have a Tattoo printer contact us to buy your printing ribbons. You might also be interested in buying a second-hand Evolis Tattoo printer since its price is now very low. Tattoo2 personalizes your white cards or preprinted cards. Recommended for printing up to 500 cards per year, Tattoo2 prints images, texts, barcodes easily.

Evolis Pebble 4

Buy the ribbons for your Evolis Pebble printer at the best price in permanent stock. We also offer second-hand Pebble printers

Evolis Pebble is the printer that revolutionized the PVC card printer market. Replaced by the Primacy Simplex printer, it was at the origin of the success of the manufacturer Evolis and today still many of our customers use a Pebble printer to print their PVC cards and we continue to sell the whole range of ribbons for Evolis Pebble. We also have used Pebble printers and spare parts. Evolis Pebble is the ideal printer for printing and encoding identification cards by its ease, reliability and printing quality.

Evolis Dualys 3

Evolis Dualys, the color printer for printing PVC cards and double-sided identification badges: ribbons and cards are still available at A3M

The Evolis Dualys printer was the big sister of the Pebble printer and was developed for printing full color plastic cards on both sides in large volumes. Replaced by the Primacy Duplex printer in 2011, we continue the sale of consumables for Dualys printer such as the printing ribbon and the white card, as well as its spare parts (print head and cleaning roller Evolis Dualys is a real PVC badge printing and encoding system.

Evolis Securion

The Evolis Securion printer secures your badges. It personalizes your cards and laminates them, makes them tamper-proof with the application of a hologram.

The Evolis Securion ID card printer was discontinued in 2015 and replaced in the Evolis range by its Primacy Lamination printer. A3M still offers the purchase of its color ribbon and black ribbon as well as its spare parts. Evolis Securion meets the security needs of badges. It personalizes your PVC cards on both sides and laminates them with a hologram thanks to its integrated laminating module.