Zebra Technologies GX430t Communicating with the Printer, Universal Serial Bus USB Communications

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Getting Started

Hooking Up the Printer and Computer

Communicating with the Printer

Begin installing the Zebra Windows Driver and then turn on the printer. If the operating system automatically starts a ‘Add new hardware’ wizard, then close the wizard and continue installing the driver.

Universal Serial Bus (USB) Communications

The printer is a terminal device when using a universal serial bus interface. You can refer to the Universal Serial Bus Specification for details regarding this interface. Scanners, scales or other data input devices must use the serial port to send data to the printer.

USB and Parallel Port Printer Detection and Windows® operating systems

Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows 98 Second Edition (USB only) operating systems support the USB and bidirectional parallel port communications with printers. The Zebra Windows Driver supports your printer in these operating systems.

These operating systems automatically detect the printer when connected via the USB interface. The operating system automatically starts a “Add new hardware’ wizard when connecting the printer for the first time to the PC. Close the wizard. Install the Zebra Windows Driver found on the user’s CD or for the latest driver go to www.zebra.com. Select the USB or parallel port and then media size (closest match). Click on the ‘Print test page’ button to verify a successful installation.

The Windows operating system will detect and re-link a previously installed printer if it is reconnected to the USB interface or power is turned on after the PC has finished its restart of the operating system. Ignore the new device detected warnings and close the Task bar prompts. Wait several seconds for the operating system to match the printer to the driver software. The warnings will quit and the printer now should be ready to begin printing.

Serial Port and Windows® operating systems

The Windows operating system default settings for the serial port communication closely match the printer’s defaults settings with one exception; the data Flow Control settings. The Windows default data Flow Control setting is NONE. The G-Series printer requires data Flow Control set to Hardware.

Note • The G-Series printer does not support Windows Serial Port Plug and Play (PnP) device detection at this time.

980612-001 Rev. A GX420t / GX430t User Guide 12/14/07