Gk series thermal printers, Gk series therm al printers – Rice Lake Zebra GK420t User Manual
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Introduction
GK Series Thermal Printers
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GK420t User Guide
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GK Series Thermal Printers
The Zebra GK model is y our best value in a basic desktop thermal printer. The GK420t 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 GK420t supports both ZPL and EPL Zebra
printer programming languages and a wide variety of interface and feature options.
The G-Series™ printer features:
• Automatic printer language detection and switching between ZPL and EPL programming
and label formats.
• OpenAccess™ design for simplified media loading.
• The industry’s easiest ribbon loading design.
• Color-coded operator controls and media guides.
• Resident scalable font, supports font download, Unicode fonts and resident bitmap fonts.
• Improved printer performance: faster print speeds, 32-bit processor, and VCSEL laser
media sensing.
• Printhead test and maintenance reporting.
The GK printers offer basic printer options:
• Label Dispense (Peel-Off)
• Internal 10/100 Print Server and Ethernet Interface
This users guide provides all of the information y ou will need to operate your printer on a daily
basis. To create label formats, refer to your programming guides or label design applications
such as Zebra Designer.
Your printer, when connected to a host computer, functions as a complete sy stem for printing
labels and tags.
Note •
Many printer settings may also be controlled by y our printer’s driver or label design
software. Refer to the driver or software documentation for more information.