User manual

Introduction

LP 2824 Plus™ Thermal Printers

980644-001 Rev. A LP 2824 Plus™ User Guide 4/1/09

LP 2824 Plus™ Thermal Printers

The Zebra LP 2824 Plus™ model is the best in class desktop thermal printer with the widest

range of features. The LP 2824 Plus™ printer provides direct thermal printing at speeds up to

4 ips (inches per second) at a 203 dpi (dots per inch) print density, supports both ZPL and EPL

Zebra printer programming languages and a variety of interface and feature options. The LP

2824 Plus™ printer features:

• Automatic printer language detection and switching between ZPL and EPL programming

and label formats.

• OpenAccess™ design for simplified media loading.

• Ultra compact printer footprint.

• Color-coded operator controls and media guides.

• Resident scalable font, supports font download, Unicode fonts and resident bitmap fonts.

• Improved printer performance with true 4 ips (inches per second) print speed and a 32-bit

processor.

• Adaptive auto serial port cable sensing and configuration for plug-and-play integration.

• Printhead test and maintenance reporting.

• Reset Button to set the printer to factory defaults while maintaining customer parameters.

• Backwards compatible with legacy Zebra 2824 printer models.

• The 2824 Plus direct thermal printer models also include support for Line Mode printing

to support EPL1 legacy programming based printing applications.

The LP 2824 Plus™ printers offer a wide range of printer options:

• Label Dispense (Peel-Off)

• Internal 10/100 Print Server and Ethernet Interface

• General media cutter

• On-board RTC (Real Time Clock) and Full Flash memory

• Asian Language support with printer configuration options for the large Simplified and

Traditional Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character sets.

• Zebra’s ZBI 2 (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 KDU or KDU Plus, etc.) all without being attached to a

PC or network.

This users guide provides all of the information you will need to operate your printer on a daily

basis. To create label formats, refer to your programming guides or label design applications

such as Zebra Designer.

Your printer, when connected to a host computer, functions as a complete system for printing

labels and tags.

Note • Many printer settings may also be controlled by your printer’s driver or label design

software. Refer to the driver or software documentation for more information.