Introduction
GT-Series™ Thermal Printers
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P1032729-003 Rev. A GT800™ Thermal Transfer Printer User Guide 9/30/2014
GT-Series™ Thermal Printers
The Zebra
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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 or 4 ips at a 300 dpi print density.
They support both ZPL™ and EPL™ Zebra 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.
• Movable Blackline Sensor: A full width movable black mark sensor and multi
position transmissive (label gap) sensor.
• 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.
• Free software and drivers to configure printer settings, design and print get printer
status, import graphics and fonts, send programming commands, update firmware,
and download files. Clone printer settings, files and update firmware with 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 printer has Simplified and Traditional Chinese fonts set available for EPL (888
legacy fonts - GB-2312 and Big 5) and ZPL (GB18030-2000 and Big 5)
programming.
• Label Dispense (Peel-Off).
• General purpose media cutter.
• 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® ZKDU, etc.) all without being attached to a
PC or network.
This guide provides information you need to operate your printer. The printer functions as a
complete system for printing when connected to a host computer. To create label formats, refer
to the programming guides or label design applications such as ZebraDesigner™.
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.
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