Printronix T5000 - The T5000 Series Label Printer; Standard Features

Standard Features
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The T5000 Series Label Printer
NOTE: As used in this manual, the terms “T5000” and “printer” refer to all
models within the T5000 series.
The T5000 series consists of a family of high quality, direct thermal and
thermal transfer printers specifically designed for printing labels and tags from
any MS-DOS
®
,Windows
®
, ASCII, or EBCDIC (with the Coax/Twinax option)
based compatible computer.
The T5000 series is comprised of the products detailed in Table 1.
* Direct Thermal only 4 inch models (no ribbon transfer support)
Standard Features
• Your thermal printer has the standard LinePrinter Plus
®
(LP+) emulation
which provides direct compatibility with Printronix P-series printers. In
addition, the printer has co-resident IGP
®
/PGL
®
and IGP/VGL emulations
which provide printer system commands for text, barcodes, graphics,
lines, and boxes.
• Direct thermal printing and thermal transfer (thermal transfer not
supported on 4 inch DT models).
• Standard interfaces:
• Serial: RS-232 and RS-422
• Parallel: Centronics
®
-compatible parallel, IEEE
®
1284 compliant
parallel
NOTE: The interface cable needed to connect the printer to the host device is
supplied by the user.
• Supports over 20 types of bar codes.
Table 1. The T5000 Series
Model
Max Print
Speed (ips)
Printing
Density (dpi)
Max Print
Width (inches)
T5204 10 203 4.1
T5204-DT* 10 203 4.1
T5304 8 300 4.1
T5304-DT* 8 300 4.1
T5206 10 203 6.6
T5306 8 300 6.6
T5208 8 203 8.5
T5308 6 300 8.5