Zebra GX420t/430t configuration
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We use a number of Zebra 420t430t printers for charting. On occasion they need to be replaced and it seems we are at that stage of things.
I normally only need to program the network and print quality, however I have recently unboxed two printers that are not printing with the expected font/size.
I have cycled through all the settings using the Zebra Setup Utility but the replacement still has a smaller font/size.
Does anyone have experience with this model of label printer?
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@gjacobse said in Zebra GX420t/430t configuration:
We use a number of Zebra 420t430t printers for charting. On occasion they need to be replaced and it seems we are at that stage of things.
I normally only need to program the network and print quality, however I have recently unboxed two printers that are not printing with the expected font/size.
I have cycled through all the settings using the Zebra Setup Utility but the replacement still has a smaller font/size.
Does anyone have experience with this model of label printer?
Does it print with different sizes when it's printing from the application as well?I'm asking because normally there is information in the print data that is sent to the printer what font and what size to use.Otherwise it might just be a difference between firmware versions.Another difference could be that you have different models. 200 dpi print heads and 300 dpi print heads.
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OK, I for sure think your GX420T printer is 200 dpi and the GX430T is 300 dpi.
Zebra printers uses ZPL and works with dots, like pixels. So if you just take the same print data and send it both to a 200 and a 300 dpi printer, you get different size prints. Your 300 dpi printout will be 2/3rds the size of the 200 dpi printout.
The print driver or print application need to recalculate the print data it sends, from inches to dots, depending on what dpi your printer has.
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OK, I checked now and the GX420T and GX430T is the same printer but with different dpi print heads.
If you can tell the application that prints to print differently depending on which printer you are printing to, everything will be fine.
If you can't, you have to replace those two GX430T printers with GX420T models.
Or put another way - if you want to have printers that are drop-in replacements for each other, you need to buy just GX420T printers (or other 203 dpi models).