The Zebra 800012-480 YMCKK ribbon is designed to work with the Zebra Series 8 retransfer printer, producing full-colour plastic cards with sharp monochrome text and barcodes on both sides. The YMCKK configuration — Yellow, Magenta, Cyan, and two black resin panels — means you get rich colour imagery on the front and clean, crisp black printing on the reverse without needing a separate ribbon run.

Each roll yields 500 full-colour prints, making it a practical choice for organisations issuing cards in volume. The dual black resin panels are particularly useful where one side carries a colour photo and the other carries variable data — employee numbers, barcodes, or access codes — that needs to read reliably under a scanner.

Using genuine Zebra consumables matters here. Retransfer printing is a precise process, and third-party ribbons introduce variables that affect both print quality and printer longevity. The 800012-480 is engineered specifically for the Series 8 — the kind of pairing where compatibility isn't a nice-to-have, it's the whole point.