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Chapter 1 The SLPA7000r Series Label Printer
The SLPA7000r Series Label Printer
The SLPA7000 Series is a family of direct thermal and thermal transfer
printers designed to print labels and tags from any MS-DOS
®
, Windows
®
, or
ASCII-based computer.
Printronix Dynamic Print Control provides exceptional print quality. A circuit
monitors the data to be printed and automatically adjusts the energy applied
to the thermal printhead for maximum performance.
The printer can communicate with the host computer via RS-232 and RS-422
serial, Centronics
®
-compatible parallel, IEEE
®
1284 compliant parallel, and
(optionally) coax/twinax, ethernet 10/100Base-T, or wireless ethernet host
connections. The interface cable needed to connect the printer to the host
device is supplied by the user.
Standard Features
• Emulations:
• Printronix LinePrinter Plus (LP+). Provides direct compatibility with
Printronix P-series printers.
• Epson FX-1050, Proprinter IIIXL, and Serial Matrix printers.
• Printronix IGP/PGL and IGP/VGL. Provides printer system
commands for text, barcodes, graphics, lines, and boxes.
• Thermal Transfer and Direct Thermal Printing: On all printers
(except -DT models, which print only in direct thermal mode)
• Bar Codes: Support for over 20 types of bar codes
• Resident Fonts: OCRA, OCRB, Courier, Letter Gothic, and
CG Triumvirate Bold Condensed
• Download: Forms, fonts, and graphics into printer memory
• High Resolution Printhead: For sharp graphics and text
• Tear-Off Mode: For positioning the label at the peel bar
• 32MB Flash memory
• 8MB DRAM memory
• Auto Label Mapping
®
: For compatibility with programs written for
Printronix line matrix printers.
• Ventless System: For operation in environments with airborne
particulate matter without compromising performance
• ZGL, TGL, IGL, and STGL Interpreters: PPI/ZGL (Zebra
TM
), PPI/TGL
(TEC), PPI/IGL (Intermec), and PPI/STGL (SATO) interpreters are
powerful integration tools that allows the SL5000r/T5000r to function in
virtually all legacy ZPL
TM
, TEC, IPL, and SGL application environments
without requiring modification to host data stream.