Introduction
ZD500 Series™ Thermal Printers
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P1062653-002 Rev. A ZD500 Series™ Thermal Transfer Printer User’s Guide 1/16/2014
The ZD500 Series™ printer features:
• A user display and control panel for easier installation and direct access feature
controls typically found only in premium printers.
• OpenAccess™ design for simplified media loading.
• Color-coded operator controls and media guides.
• 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, JIS and Shift-JIS (Japanese International Standards), Hexadecimal
encoding, and custom character mapping (DAT table creation, font linking, and
character remapping).
• On–The –Fly OpenType and TrueType font scaling and import, Unicode, resident
scalable font, and a selection of resident bitmap fonts.
• XML-Enabled printing—allows XML communications for bar code label printing,
eliminating license fees and print server hardware and lowering customization and
programming costs.
• Movable Sensor: A full width movable black mark or notch sensor, and multi center
position transmissive (label gap/web) sensor.
• 56 MB of user accessible flash memory for storing forms, fonts, and graphics.
• USB 2.0, Serial RS-232 and bi-directional parallel ports.
• Internal ZebraNet10/100 Print Server—supports 10Base-T, 100Base-TX and fast
Ethernet 10/100 auto-switching networks.
• On-board RTC (Real Time Clock).
• Printhead maintenance reporting enabled and customizable by the user.
The ZD500 Series™ printer options:
• Internal UHF RFID Encoder (See the RFID Programmimg Guide 3 for details)
• Label Dispense (Peel-Off Liner and Present Label for Operator).
• General purpose media cutter.
• Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n)
• Bluetooth 3.0
• Pre-loaded Swiss 721 Latin 1 font (for EU zone printers). Font is available for
download.
• Asian Language support with printer configuration options for the large Simplified
and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character sets. Printers sold in China
have the Simplified Chinese SimSun font pre-installed.
• 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.
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