Zebra GC420t direct thermal and thermal transfer printer
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Direct thermal and thermal transfer printer
Affordability Meets High-Quality Zebra’s feature-rich, competitively priced GC420™ desktop printer brings Zebra quality, durability and reliable performance to many low- to medium-volume, direct thermal and thermal transfer printing applications.
Compact Design Filled with Powerful Features.
The GC420 printer’s compact, space-saving design contains a powerful 32-bit processor for fast label throughput, and 8 MB Flash memory for increased storage of fonts and graphics. The GC420 supports media widths up to 4.25” for standard desktop applications. It also includes both EPL2™ and powerful ZPL II® programming languages—making it easy to integrate with other Zebra printers. Peeler/dispenser option extends the GC420 printer’s versatility to meet an even greater variety of applications.
Ideal for these applications:
- Government - documents management, evidence tracking
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Healthcare - laboratory specimen and blood bank labeling
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Retail - price labeling and receipt printing
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Manufacturing - light-industrial work-in-process, product and shipping labeling
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Transportation & Logistics - boarding tickets, bag tags, parking passes
Standard features
- 32 bit RISC processor
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Programming languages: EZPL (ZPL, ZPL II and EPL2)
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Triple connectivity: USB, parallel and serial
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Print methods: Direct thermal and thermal transfer, printing of barcodes, text and graphics.
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OpenACCESS™ for easy media and ribbon loading
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Microsoft® Windows® drivers
Resolution
- 203 dpi/8 dots per mm
Memory
- 8 MB Flash, 8 MB SDRAM (standard)
Print width
- 104 mm
Print length
- 990 mm
Print speed
- 102 mm per second maximum
Media sensors
- Transmissive and reflective sensors
Media characteristics
- Media width 25.4mm to 108mm
- Media length 9.6 mm to 990mm
- Maximum media roll size 127 mm O.D on a 25.4 mm, 38mm ID core
- Media thickness 0.08 mm to 0.18 mm
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Media types:
- Roll-fed or fan fold
- Label stock (die cut or continous, direct thermal)
- Tag stock (die cut or continous, direct thermal)
- Receipt paper (continous, direct thermal)
- Wristband stock (direct thermal)
Operating characteristics
- Operating Temperature: 40° F/5° C to 105° F/ 41° C
- Storage/Transport Environment:-40° F/-40° C to 140° F/60° C
- Operating humidity: 10% to 90% non-condensing RH
- Storage humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing RH
- TUV-R NRTL, TUV-R CB, NOM, KCC, CE, FCC Class-B
Physical characteristics
- Width: 201 mm
- Height: 170 mm
- Depth: 208 mm
- Weight: 1.4 kg
- Peel – a front-mount, passive-peel with no take-up spindle
- Peel – a front-mount, passive-peel with liner take-up spindle (factory-fitonly)
- Cutter – a front-mount guillotine cutter
- Real-time clock (RTC)
- Keyboard Display Unit (KDU)
- ZebraDesigner™ Pro—An intuitive, easy-to-use software program for creating complex label designs (option)
- ZebraDesigner—Offers basic features for simple label design
- ZebraDesigner Driver—The most powerful driver available from Zebra
Communication and interface capabilities
- Centronics® parallel (36 pin) connector ports
- RS-232 Serial interface
- USB V1.1 interface, bi-directional
Firmware
- ZPL II® - Zebra Programming Language provides sophisticated label formatting and printer control.
- EPL2™—Eltron Programming Language with Line Mode simplifies label formatting and enables format compatibility with legacy applications
Barcode symbologies
- Bar Code Ratios: 2:1 (non-rotated) and 3:1
- Linear Bar Codes: Code 11, Code 39, Code 93, Code 128A, B & C (User selectable/Auto), UCC/EAN-128, Code 128, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, EAN-13, EAN-14, UPC-A and UPC-E with EAN 2 or 5 digit extensions, UPC-E with 2 and 5 add on, Plessey, POSTNET, Standard 2 of 5, Industrial 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, LOGMARS, MSI, Codabar, and GS1 DataBar™ (formerly RSS), Postnet (5, 9, 11 & 13 digit) Japanese Postnet, Plessey (MSI-1), MSI-3, German Post Code, RSS-14 (limited, truncated, stacked).
- 2-Dimensional: PDF417 (MicroPDF-417 and MacroPDF-417), Code 49, Maxicode, Codablock, Data Matrix, QR code, and Aztec
Fonts and graphics
- 16 resident expandable ZPL fonts
- One resident scalable ZPL font
- 5 resident expandable EPL2 fonts
- Supports user-defined fonts and graphics - including custom logos
Electrical specifications
- Auto-ranging external power supply with C7 type connector
- Output: 20 VDC, 2.5A
- Input: 100-240 VAC, 50-60 Hz
Please Note: specifications and options vary according to printer model and are subject to change without prior notice.
