User Manual

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Introduction
This section introduces the Zebra® ZD200 Series 4-inch desktop direct thermal label printers. The
overview includes the printer’s features and options, and what ships with your new printer.
This document covers the following ZD-series desktop printer models: ZD220 and ZD230
• ZD200 Series Direct Thermal Printer — www.zebra.com/zd200d-info
4-inch Desktop Thermal Printers
The Zebra® 4-inch Desktop printers are compact label printers with essential features and options.
The ZD200 direct thermal printers can support:
• ZD220 model has a print speed of 101.6 mm/sec (4 ips - inches per second).
• ZD230 model has a maximum print speed of 152.4 mm/s (6 ips - inches per second) and
101.6 mm/sec (4 ips - inches per second) default speed.
• ZD200 models have a 203 dpi (dots per inch print density).
• ZPL ™ and EPL Zebra printer programming languages.
Common Desktop Printer Features:
• OpenAccess ™ design for simplified media loading.
• Color-coded “touch points” for operator controls and media guides.
• Simple single control button and single multi colored status indicator.
• Zebra’s printer operating system — an open platform with software tools needed to integrate,
manage, and maintain the printer.
• 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 an optional
1.5 inch (38.1 mm) media core adapter set.
• Half width Movable Media Sensor provides compatibility with a wide range of media types:
• Compatible with full or partial width black mark media - center to left side of media.
• Compatible with notched or slotted media - center to left side of media.
• Center position transmissivity sensor for use with label gap/web media.
• 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.