Zebra Technologies ZD500 The ZD500 Series printer features:, The ZD500 Series printer options:

Introduction

ZD500 Series™ Thermal Printers

P1062653-002 Rev. A ZD500 Series™ Thermal Transfer Printer User’s Guide 1/16/2014

The ZD500 Series™ printer features:

• A user display and control panel for easier installation and direct access feature

controls typically found only in premium printers.

• OpenAccess™ design for simplified media loading.

• 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, resident

scalable font, and a selection of resident bitmap fonts.

• XML-Enabled printing—allows XML communications for bar code label printing,

eliminating license fees and print server hardware and lowering customization and

programming costs.

• Movable Sensor: A full width movable black mark or notch sensor, and multi center

position transmissive (label gap/web) sensor.

• 56 MB of user accessible flash memory for storing forms, fonts, and graphics.

• USB 2.0, Serial RS-232 and bi-directional parallel ports.

• Internal ZebraNet10/100 Print Server—supports 10Base-T, 100Base-TX and fast

Ethernet 10/100 auto-switching networks.

• On-board RTC (Real Time Clock).

• Printhead maintenance reporting enabled and customizable by the user.

The ZD500 Series™ printer options:

• Internal UHF RFID Encoder (See the RFID Programmimg Guide 3 for details)

• Label Dispense (Peel-Off Liner and Present Label for Operator).

• General purpose media cutter.

• Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n)

• Bluetooth 3.0

• Pre-loaded Swiss 721 Latin 1 font (for EU zone printers). Font is available for

download.

• Asian Language support with printer configuration options for the large Simplified

and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character sets. Printers sold in China

have the Simplified Chinese SimSun font pre-installed.

• Zebra® ZBI 2.0™ (Zebra BASIC Interpreter) programming language. ZBI allows you

to create custom printer operations that can automate processes, use peripherals (i.e.

scanners, scales, keyboards, Zebra® ZKDU™, etc.) all without being attached to a PC

or network.