Printronix manual T4204 Label Printer, Conventions, Features, Printer Control

Chapter 1 The T4204 Label Printer

Conventions

Throughout this manual, keys and possible key settings or positions are printed in UPPERCASE type.

In most cases, messages displayed in the liquid crystal display (LCD) are shown in the following format:

PRINTER CONTROL

Print Speed

The T4204 Label Printer

The T4204 is a high quality, direct thermal and thermal transfer printer specifically designed for printing labels and tags, from any MS-DOS®, Windows®, or ASCII based compatible computer.

Features

•Thermal transfer and direct thermal printing.

•Supports over 20 types of bar codes.

•Download forms, fonts and graphics to printer memory.

•High resolution print head for sharp graphics and text.

•Built-in label rewinder for batch processing or label Peel-Off operation.

•Label Taken Sensor for detecting removal of labels in Peel-Off or Tear- Off modes.

•Peel-Off mode for peeling off labels one at a time, before printing the next label.

•Tear-Off mode for positioning the label at the tear off position and detecting its removal before printing the next label.

•Tear-Off Strip mode for automatically positioning the last label of the print job at the tear off position when the print buffer is empty.

•4MB DRAM memory.

•4MB Flash memory.

Printronix Dynamic Print Control provides exceptional print quality. A circuit monitors the data to be printed and automatically adjusts the energy applied to the thermal printhead for maximum performance.

The printer can be connected to communicate with the host via RS-232 and RS-422 serial, Centronics®-compatible parallel, IEEE®1284 compliant parallel, and, optionally, coax/twinax host connections or Ethernet® 10Base-T, or 10/100 Base-T. The interface cable needed to connect the printer to the host device must be supplied by the user.

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