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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.
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•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.
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•Zebra™ Global Printing Solution – supports Microsoft Windows keyboard encoding (and ANSI), Unicode
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•Improved printer performance: faster print speeds and a
•Adaptive auto serial port cable sensing and configuration for
•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.
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The GX printers offer a wide range of printer options:
•Label Dispense
•Internal 10/100 Print Server and Ethernet Interface.
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•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.
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| GX420d™ / GX430d™ User Guide | 8/4/10 |