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Print Operations
This section provides general information on media and print handling, font and language
support, and the setup of less common printer configurations.
Thermal Printing
The ZD-Series printers use heat to expose direct thermal media or heat and pressure to
melt and transfer ‘ink’ to the media. Extra care should be taken to avoid touching the
printhead which gets hot and is sensitive to electrostatic discharges.
Hot Surface Caution • The printhead becomes hot while printing. To protect from
damaging the printhead and risk of personal injury, avoid touching the printhead. Only use
the cleaning pen to perform printhead maintenance.
ESD Caution • The discharge of electrostatic energy that accumulates on the surface of
the human body or other surfaces can damage or destroy the printhead and other
electronic components used in this device. You must observe static-safe procedures when
working with the printhead or the electronic components under the top cover.
Determining Your Printer’s Configuration Settings
ZD-series printer provide a configuration report of the printer’s settings and hardware.
Operational status (darkness, speed, media type, etc.), installed printer options (network,
interface settings, cutter, etc.) and printer description information (serial number, model
name, firmware version, etc.) are all included on the configuration report.
See Test Printing with the Configuration Report to print this label.
See Managing the ZPL Printer Configuration to help interpret the configuration report and
the associated programming command and command states it is identifying in the report.