Design and print virtually any card 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. If you can dream it, you can print it—single- or dual-sided, color, black and white or with special color effects. You can even embed security marks on the fly—a first for a printer in this price point. Add a magnetic stripe or create a contact or contactless card. 

No matter how complex your cards are, the ZC300 makes it easy—Zebra’s Industrial Design team has elegantly engineered the ZC300 to address and eliminate virtually all pain points associated with card printing. And with a groundbreaking fits-everywhere design, you can get secure card printing wherever you need it. 

• ZC31-000C000AP00 – 1 Side ID Card printer 
• ZC32-000C000AP00 – Dual Side ID Card printer 

The Simplest Card Printer on the Planet 

• Highly Graphical LED/LCD Interface 
• A New Ingenious Card Feeder Handles Varying Card Thickness on-the-Fly 
• Painless Plug-and-Play Deployment 
• Groundbreaking New Driver With a Graphical User Interface 
• Revolutionary New Hopper Design 
• Fool-Proof Ribbon Changing 

Specifications 

Standard Features 

• 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
• GraphicalcolorLCD 
• 3Tricolorprinter status indicator lights 
• Kensington® secure lock slot
• Print Touch NFC tag for online printer help and

documentation access 

• Printer host authentication
• Data encryption
• Three-year limited warranty on printer and printhead

Printing Specifications 

• Dye-sublimation thermal transfer direct to card print method
• Full-coloror 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.