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44895L Rev. 3 3/12/04 S400/S600 Maintenance Manual Page 1-1
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The Zebra Stripe S400 and S600 Thermal Printers are versatile label and ticket printers
designed to print high-quality bar codes, various sizes and styles of alphanumeric characters,
and graphics in either the thermal transfer or direct thermal mode. The Zebra Stripe printers
have the flexibility to meet a wide variety of applications. Zebra Programming Language II
(ZPL II) allows the programmer to format the printed material. ZPL II is transparent to protocol
converters and allows the Zebra Stripe printers to be easily integrated with most systems and
host mainframes.
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Tear-Off Mode. When the media is in the rest (idle) position, the webbing between labels is
over the tear-off/peel-off plate. To print a label, the printer first backfeeds the media until the
start of the label is directly under the printhead, then prints the entire label. The operator then
tears off the label, and a new label can be printed.
Peel-Off Mode. When the media is in the rest (idle) position, the start of the label to be
printed is slightly in front of the printhead. To print a label, the printer first backfeeds the
media until the start of the label is directly under the printhead, then prints the entire label.
In this mode, once the label is printed, the media passes over the tear-off/peel-off plate at a
sharp angle. The liner is peeled away from the label and winds around the liner rewind
spindle. The media feeds forward until most of the label hangs loose from the liner. The
label-available sensor detects this label and pauses printing until the operator removes the
label, then the next label prints.
The liner rewind spindle holds one half of the liner from a standard size media roll. The
rewind spindle full sensor detects when the spindle is full, then pauses.
Cutter Mode. When the media is in the rest (idle) position, the start of the label to be printed
is directly under the printhead. The printer prints the entire label and automatically cuts the
label after it is printed. The cutter catch tray catches the completed labels.
The cutter automatically cycles through one cutting motion when the printer’s power is turned
On (l). When printing labels, cutter activation is determined by a command sent to the printer
by the host computer from either ZPL II or from a different software driver.
External Rewind Mode. Some applications call for the media to be rewound onto a core as
the labels are printed. The Stripe printer does not have an internal media rewind capability.
The liner rewind spindle is not designed to rewind label stock. An external rewinder is
required for this application. An external rewinder is not available from Zebra Technologies.
When the media is in the rest (idle) position, the start of the label to be printed is directly
under the printhead. After the label is printed, the media feeds forward until the start of the
next label is under the printhead. The media never backfeeds in this mode. When the printer
completes a batch of labels, printing stops. The speed and tension of the rewind operation is
strictly a function of the external rewind unit.