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Introduction
Common Desktop Link-OS Printer Features:
• OpenAccess ™ design for simplified media loading.
• Color-coded “touch points” for operator controls and media guides.
• Enhanced user interface featuring three buttons and five status indicators.
• Easy, field installable media handling options.
• Media roll support:
• Outer Diameter (O.D.): Up to 127 mm (5 inch) and
• Inner Diameter (I.D.) roll cores:12.7 mm (0.5 inch), 25.4 mm (1 inch) and
additional core sizes with optional media core adapters.
• Movable Sensor provides compatibility with the widest range of media types:
• Compatible with full or partial width black mark media.
• Compatible with notched or slotted media.
• Multi-center position transmissivity sensor for use with label gap/web media.
• Universal Serial Bus (USB) Host Port that can be used for easy firmware
upgrades.
• Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 interface
• Modular Connectivity Slot for field installable 10/100 Ethernet (802.3 RJ-45) or
Serial (RS-232 DB-9) interface options.
• On–the–fly OpenType and TrueType font scaling and import, Unicode, resident
scalable font (Swiss 721 Latin 1 font), and a selection of resident bitmap fonts.
• Backwards compatibility focused technology eases printer replacement:
• Drop in replacement of legacy Zebra desktop printers. The printer accepts
both EPL and ZPL programming languages.
• Supports Link-OS virtual devices to interpret non-Zebra printer programming
languages.
• XML-Enabled printing—allows XML communications for barcode label printing,
eliminating license fees and print server hardware and lowering customization and
programming costs.
• 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).
• Supports printer configuration via a setup utility running on mobile devices.
• Zebra’s Print Touch (Near Field Communication - NFC) ‘tap’ to pair devices,
access printer information, and access mobile applications.
• Zebra’s Link-OS - an open platform that connects operating systems for smart
Zebra devices with powerful software apps (applications), making the devices
easy to integrate, manage and maintain from any location.