Stephen, The Zebra models are fine, we changed from Datamax to Zebra about 4 years ago because of the differential in cost purchase cost.
The only thing to be aware of on the Zebra's is NOT to run the label at the full throughput (about 9" per second) and to trim it down to about 6" per second. The reason being that the heads just wear out too quickly and the astronomical cost of the replacement head is nearly as much as the actual printer new. Check out the spare part costs and make the client aware of this. We have found through painful experience (i.e. financial) that this triples the effective life of the printer and everyone is happy if they never know the speed that the printer will really run at! The other thing is to ditch the native Zebra drivers for the printer and use the "Seagull" drivers (Google "Seagull Zebra") as the native ones are complete rubbish. There are lots of options in the driver that can increase the thermal head life/print quality and these are not present in the native drivers. Other than that, they are reliable and good workhorses. We have 15 of them here at work going 24/7 doing pallet labels which is way more than the usage that you would be putting them through I guess. Dave Crozier -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: 26 August 2009 18:19 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Roll label printers, any issues with one in your past? I have to put a 13 inch label on a legal envelope from a java system. I am looking at paper labels and resin media. I need the image to stick to the label !!! this is going to be used in a court environment by the keeper of the records. Any ideas on other machines? Looking at : Zebra : 105SL Direct Thermal-Thermal Transfer Barcode Printer (300 dpi, 6MB DRAM, 4MB Flash, ZPL, 120VAC-NA, Internal ZebraNet 10/100 PrintServer) $ 2000 DataMax: I-4308 Direct Thermal-Thermal Transfer Printer (300 dpi, 4.1 Inch Print Width, 8 ips Print Speed, Serial, Parallel and Ethernet Interfaces) $ 1500 -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer SQL Server DBA Web and Winform Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/3ad68c5854b84540b963eb9a1db6a...@develop ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
