Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Zebra GK420D Direct Thermal Printer Review

By James Oliver


The Zebra GK420D is hands down the best printer in the Zebra G-Series. It delivers the best in class so far as speed and performance. This model is feature-rich, trustworthy, durable, and flexible to fit almost any low to mid volume printing application and budget. Check out some of the many uses for the Zebra GK420D thermal printer:

- Price marking
- Gift registry
- Voucher and receipt printing
- Pharmacy prescription labeling
- Specimen labeling
- Patient tracking
- Light business work in process and product labeling
- Visitor ID
- Evidence tracking
- Parking passes
- Boarding passes
- Bag tags
- Ski lift tickets and more

You can print broader labels and more with compact desktop label printers that fit all your wants. These versatile direct thermal label printers are excellent for all of your applications.

The Zebra GK420D monochrome desktop direct thermal label printer comes fitted out with Ethernet and USB ports, prints 5" per second in black at 203 dpi, and can be used to print labels, tags, bills, or other media up to 4.09" wide. Direct heat printers use heat instead of ink and are often smaller, quieter, faster, and more energy efficient than dot-matrix printers. The GK420d has a maximum print speed of 5" per second at 203 dpi (dots per inch) and prints labels up to 39" long. The 32-bit processor combined with the 8 MB of SDRAM memory and 4 MB of flash memory offers fast first label printing with intensive media graphics. The Ethernet port enables the printer to be connected to a wired PC network (Ethernet cord sold singly). A USB port and an included USB cable provide connectivity to a PC or another machine. EPL and ZPL coding languages are standard.

The GK420d printer's double-walled casing is made from ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene), which helps resist impact. An open-access design facilitates media loading. A reflective sensor allows the printer to spot the openings, holes, notches, or black marks between labels to print the labels correctly. A transmissive sensor enables it to detect when a roll of media has run out. The auto-detectable power adapter can accept AC power between 100 and 240 volts. This printer is appropriate for use with black bar, black mark, continuing, continual invoice, die-cut, fanfold, gap, nicked, punctured, receipt, roll-fed, tag, or tag stock media (all sold singly). The maximum outside diameter for rolls is 5".




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