New Zebra Printers Are Turning Heads
New Zebra printers and what they have replaced.
by Timmy Thermal
Well, Zebra has been busy recently by adding 9 new printers. Zebra has been known for their thermal label printers for many years by offering the newest technologies.
To help you keep up-to-date I thought I would put together this quick little handy rundown of the new printers and which models they have replaced.
Here is the list:
Zebra ZT220™/ZT230™ replaced the Zebra S4M™
Zebra ZT410™ replaced the Zebra ZM400™
Zebra ZT420™ replaced the Zebra ZM600™
Zebra 105SL+™ replaced the Zebra 105SL™
Zebra 110Xi4™ replaced the Zebra 110XiIII+™
Zebra 140Xi4™ replaced the Zebra 140XiIII+™
Zebra 170Xi4™ replaced the Zebra 170XiIII+™
Zebra 220Xi4™ replaced the Zebra 220XiIII+™
Standard features for Zebra’s new printers:
- Direct-thermal or thermaltransfer (optional)
- Metal frame construction with choice of metal (ZT230™) or plastic (ZT220™) media cover
- Bi-fold media door with large clear window
- Side-loading supplies path for simplified media and ribbon loading
- Element Energy Equalizer™ (E3™) for superior print quality
- Bi-color LEDs for quick printer status
- Icon-based LCD multilingual graphical user interface and full function keypad (ZT230™)
- Simple keypad (ZT220™)
- USB 2.0 and RS-232 Serial ports
- ENERGY STAR qualified Printer Specifications Resolution
- 203 dpi/8 dots per mm / 300 dpi/12 dots per mm (optional)
- 128 MB SDRAM memory / 128 MB on-board linear Flash memory
- Maximum Print Width 4.09”/104 mm
- Maximum Print Speed 6”/152 mm per second
- Integrated RFID system is user-upgradable in the field
- Prints and encodes tags with a minimum pitch of 0.6”/16 mm
- Supports tags compatible with UHF EPC Gen 2 V1.2/ISO 18000-6C
- Compliant with Global RFID radio to support multinational deployments
- Automatically eliminate complex RFID placement guidelines with adaptive encoding technology
- Variable inlay placement supports a range of inlay positions for maximum media flexibility
- Track performance with RFID job-monitoring tools
- Support for industry standard multi-vendor chipbased serialization (MCS)
- Supports block permalocking of user memory compatible with ATA Spec 2000
- Integrated ThingMagic® RFID reader/encoder
- Thermal transfer and direct thermal
- Metal frame construction and bi-fold metal media cover with enlarged clear viewing window
- Side-loading supplies path for simplified media and ribbon loading
- Element Energy Equalizer™ (E3™) for superior print quality
- Communications: USB 2.0, high-speed, RS-232 Serial, 10/100 Ethernet, Bluetooth 2.1, USB Host
- Back-lit, multiline graphic LCD display with intuitive menu and easy-to-use keypad for quick operation
- Bi-colored status LEDs for quick printer status
- ENERGY STAR® qualified Printer Specifications Resolution
- 203 dpi/8 dots per mm / 300 dpi/12 dots per mm (optional) / 600 dpi/24 dots per mm (optional for ZT410™ only)
- 256 MB SDRAM memory / 512 MB on-board linear Flash memory
- Maximum Print Width 4.09″/104 mm (ZT410™) 6.6″/168 mm (ZT420™)
- Maximum Print Speed 14 ips/356 mm per second (ZT410™) 12 ips/305 mm per second (ZT420™)
- Thermal transfer or direct thermal
- Steel frame construction and cabinet with metal interior components
- Single-level Element Energy Equalizer™ (E3 ™)for superior print quality
- Fast 32-bit processing
- Selectable print speeds up to 8”/second
- Transmissive media sensor
- Standard 2-line, 16-character LCD control panel
- Internal real-time clock • Unicode™ compliant
- XML-Enabled printing
- 203 dpi/8 dots per mm / 300 dpi/12 dots per mm (optional)
- Standard: 6 MB SDRAM; 4 MB Flash / Optional: Up to 256 MB—PCMCIA card or CompactFlash® (CompactFlash not supported with ZebraNet Wireless Plus) 64 MB Flash memory (factory installed)
- Print Width: 4.09”/104 mm / Print Length with 203 dpi: 106”/2,692 mm (with standard memory) / Print Length with 300 dpi (optional): 65”/1,651 mm (with standard memory)
- Print Speed 8”/203 mm per second (203/300 dpi)
Zebra Xi4 Series (110Xi4™, 140Xi4™, 170Xi4™, 220Xi4™):
- Thermal transfer or direct thermal
- 32 bit 133 Mhz RISC processor
- 64 MB on-board linear Flash memory / 16 MB SDRAM memory
- Internal real-time clock
- Advanced label/media counters
- Auto calibration
- Early warning systems
- New full-function front panel and large, multilingual, back-lit LCD display with user-programmable password protection
- Clear media side door
- Thin film printhead with Element Energy Equalizer™ (E3 ™) for superior print quality
- Serial RS-232 and bi-directional parallel ports with auto detect
- Internal ZebraNet 10/100 Print Server (Ethernet)
- Dual media sensors—transmissive and reflective, selectable through software or front panel
- ENERGY STAR® qualified (140Xi4™, 170Xi4™, 220Xi4™)
For more information on all these Zebra printers changes and to learn more about your options on your printer and scanning needs, call us as (800) 643-2664 and immediately talk to one of our friendly representatives; or chat us up on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn!