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Intermec PC43t Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Guide
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Intermec PC43t Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Guide
Most desktop label printers speak one command language, and that language is whatever the manufacturer that built them decided on. If you...
Sep 18, 2026
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TSC TTP-345 300dpi Thermal Transfer Printer Guide
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TSC TTP-345 300dpi Thermal Transfer Printer Guide
Resolution is the one specification that genuinely separates label printers, and it is also the one people buy without working out whethe...
Sep 18, 2026
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Zebra S4M Industrial Label Printer: Specs and Guide
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Zebra S4M Industrial Label Printer: Specs and Guide
Almost every label printer that gets returned as unsuitable was bought on the wrong number. Someone counted the labels the busiest day pr...
Sep 18, 2026
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Zebra G-Series Desktop Label Printers: GC vs GK vs GX
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Zebra G-Series Desktop Label Printers: GC vs GK vs GX
Zebra's G-series desktop names look like random part codes, but they are not. GC420t, GK420d, GX420t and GX430t each describe a build tie...
Sep 18, 2026
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Datamax-O-Neil M-4210 Industrial Printer: Specs and Guide
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Datamax-O-Neil M-4210 Industrial Printer: Specs and Guide
Thermal printer brands are unusually long-lived. A printer built under one name can sit on a production line for fifteen years, outlastin...
Sep 18, 2026
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Honeywell PX4ie Industrial Label Printer: Specs and Guide
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Honeywell PX4ie Industrial Label Printer: Specs and Guide
Most industrial label printers are bought on print width, resolution and speed, and those three numbers are the ones that appear on every...
Sep 18, 2026
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Zebra 140Xi4 5-Inch Industrial Label Printer Guide
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Zebra 140Xi4 5-Inch Industrial Label Printer Guide
Four inches is not a print width. It is a convention. Carrier shipping labels are four inches wide, warehouse management systems assume f...
Sep 18, 2026
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Zebra ZP506 FedEx Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Guide
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Zebra ZP506 FedEx Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Guide
A surprising share of the cheap desktop label printers on the used market never started life as a purchase. They were placed on a shipper...
Sep 18, 2026
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Zebra R110Xi4 RFID Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
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Zebra R110Xi4 RFID Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
A label printer either prints or it does not, and you can see which from across the room. An RFID printer-encoder is different. It can pr...
Sep 18, 2026
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Brady BBP11 Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
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Brady BBP11 Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
Most label printers are bought to print labels that get thrown away. Shipping labels, pick labels, date labels: printed in the morning, g...
Sep 18, 2026
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CognitiveTPG DLXi Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Guide
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CognitiveTPG DLXi Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Guide
There is a question that comes up every time a CognitiveTPG DLXi appears on a quote. It prints a 2-inch label at 203 dpi and weighs 4.5 l...
Sep 18, 2026
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Datamax E-4205A Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
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Datamax E-4205A Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
When a label printer is replaced, the printer is rarely the difficult part. The difficult part is everything attached to it: the label fo...
Sep 18, 2026
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