User guide

Introduction

GT-Series™ Thermal Printers

P1032729-001 GT-Series™ User Guide 1/5/2011

GT-Series™ Thermal Printers

The Zebra

GT-Series™ printer models are the best value in a desktop thermal printer. The

GT-Series™ printer provides thermal transfer and direct thermal printing at speeds up to 5 ips

(inches per second) at a 203 dpi (dots per inch) print density. The GT-Series™ supports both

ZPL™ and EPL™ Zebra printer programming languages and a wide variety of interface and

feature options.

GT-Series™ printers feature:

• Automatic printer language detection and switching between ZPL and EPL

programming and label formats.

• The industry’s easiest ribbon loading design able to use 300m and 74m transfer

ribbons in a single printer without special adapters.

• 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, Hexadecimal encoding, and custom character maps (DAT table

creation, font linking, and character remapping).

• Improved printer performance: faster print speeds and a 32-bit processor.

• A complete suite of free software applications and drivers to configure printer

settings, design and print labels and receipts, get printer status, import graphics and

fonts, send programming commands, update firmware, and download files. Clone

printer settings and send graphics, files, fonts, and firmware (updates) to one or more

Zebra® Ethernet and locally connected printers with ZebraNet™ Bridge.

• Maintenance reporting enabled and customizable by the user.

The GT-Series™ printers offer these basic printer options:

• The GT800™ printer model has an On-board Simplified and Traditional Chinese font

set available for EPL (888 legacy fonts - GB-2312 and Big 5) and ZPL (GB18030-

2000 and Big 5) programming.

• Label Dispense (Peel-Off).

• Internal 10/100 Print Server and Ethernet Interface.

• 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® KDU or KDU Plus™, etc.) all without being

attached to a PC or network.

This users guide provides all the information you need to operate your printer. To create label

formats, refer to your programming guides or label design applications such as

ZebraDesigner™.

Your printer, when connected to a host computer, functions as a complete system for printing

labels and tags.

Note • Many printer settings may also be controlled by your printer’s driver or label design

software. Refer to the driver or software documentation for more information.