Evolis Avansia is a retransfer card printer that offers very high quality plastic card production. Designed for rigorous use, Avansia is extremely robust and provides high security card issuance. It is ideal for organizations that need to produce the highest quality personalized plastic ID cards in medium and large quantities. Avansia is ideal for creating:

• Corporate ID cards
• Secure access badges
• Student cards
• Payment cards
• Loyalty cards / gift cards
• National ID cards
• Driver’s licenses 

Key features of the Evolis Avansia printer include:

• Exceptionally fast output prints up to 140 single-sided color cards per hour
• High resolution 600 dpi – double the print quality of most card printers on the market – creates crisp, high-definition images, micro text and watermarks
• Avansia produces true over-the-edge card prints, guaranteeing that your edges print perfectly since the film fully covers the card
• 3-Year standard warranty and life time warranty on the print head 
• Prints on all types of cards including uneven card surfaces, such as smart contact and contactless cards – standard dye sublimation for PVC cards and retransfer for ABS, Polycarbonate (PC) and most of the PET cards
• Configure and combine all types of data encoding options: magnetic stripe, and contact & contactless smart cards – Please contact an ID Expert at 877-868-0012 for Smart Card encoding options
• High capacity card hoppers (250 cards), print ribbons and transfer film produce cards with no interruption, even in critical environments (dust, heat...)
• High capacity printer ribbons and transfer films 
• Secure print environment with an easy-to-use RFID electronic key that prevents any attempt to use the printer.
• Standard built-in card flattener delivers perfect results.

Retransfer Printing Technology
Retransfer printers print onto a flexible, transparent film that is thermally bonded to the card - offering a high level of fraud protection. In contrast, traditional dye sublimation card printers use a printhead that prints through a ribbon directly onto the card. 

Using the retransfer printing process, the Evolis Avansia uses a standard full color dye film (YMCK) to print an image onto a clear retransfer film in a "reverse image." The image is then laminated onto the plastic card surface. Your printed card is highly protected from scratching and fading by the clear film layer. Retransfer technology also delivers vivid printing with over-the-edge coverage for a wide range of plastic card applications.

The retransfer printing process produces higher image quality and allows true edge-to-edge printing, even on uneven surfaces such as smart cards. It also eliminates the white border left by even the best dye sublimation printers. These traditional card printers must leave a white border because printing out to the edge would damage the printhead.

Finally, cards printed using the retransfer printing technology are more durable and abrasion-resistant cards and offers higher fraud protection, since the film is inherently tamper-evident.