Zebra Technologies GX430D, GX420D manual GX Series Thermal Printers

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Introduction

GX Series Thermal Printers

GX Series Thermal Printers

The Zebra® GX models are the Best in Class™ desktop thermal printer with the widest range of features. The GX420d™ printer provides direct thermal printing at speeds up to 6 ips (inches per second) at a 203 dpi (dots per inch) print density. The GX430d™ printer provide direct thermal printing at speeds up to 4 ips at a 300 dpi print density. Both the GX420d™ and GX430d™ support both ZPL™ and EPL™ Zebra printer programming languages and a wide variety of interface and feature options.

The G-Series™ printer features:

•Automatic printer language detection and switching between ZPL and EPL programming and label formats.

•OpenAccess™ design for simplified media loading.

•The industry’s easiest ribbon loading design.

•Color-coded operator controls and media guides.

•Zebra™ Global Printing Solution – supports Microsoft Windows keyboard encoding (and ANSI), Unicode UTF-8 and UTF 16 (Unicode Transformation Formats), XML, ASCII (7 and 8 bit used by legacy programs and systems), basic single and double byte font encoding, JIS and Shift-JIS (Japanese International Standards), Hexadecimal encoding, and custom character mapping (DAT table creation, font linking, and character remapping).

•On–The –Fly OpenType and TrueType font scaling and import, Unicode, preloaded Swiss 721 Latin 1 font, one resident scalable font, and a selection of resident bitmap fonts.

•Improved printer performance: faster print speeds and a 32-bit processor.

•Adaptive auto serial port cable sensing and configuration for plug-and-play integration.

•A complete suite of free software applications and drivers to configure printer settings, design and print labels and receipts, get printer status, import graphics and fonts, send programming commands, update firmware, and download files. Clone printer settings and send graphics, files, fonts, and firmware (updates) to one or more Zebra® Ethernet and locally connected printers with ZebraNet™ Bridge.

•Printhead test and maintenance reporting enabled and customizable by the user.

•The G-Series™ direct thermal printer models also include support for Line Mode printing to support EPL1 legacy programming based printing applications.

The GX printers offer a wide range of printer options:

•Label Dispense (Peel-Off).

•Internal 10/100 Print Server and Ethernet Interface.

•Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) with user display.

•Bluetooth with user display.

•Moveable Blackline Sensor: A full width moveable black mark sensor and multi position transmissive (label gap) sensor.”

•General purpose media cutter.

•On-board RTC (Real Time Clock) and 68MB Full Flash memory (12MB Full Flash Memory prior to July 24, 2009).

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