An all-metal four inch industrial printer with sealed buttons, built for somewhere the air is not clean. It prints the same labels as the ZT411 onto the same stock, on a plainer machine with a hard-wired gigabit connection.
Two part numbers, which is one question: how small does the print have to be?
Sealed dome buttons and an all-metal body built to keep dust, dirt and moisture out of the electronics, and gigabit Ethernet rather than the ordinary sort. This is a printer for a place the printer should not really be — a shed, a yard office, a line that gets hosed down, somewhere the air carries timber dust or flour or concrete.
203 dpi reads across a dock and covers most warehouse work. 300 dpi is for small type or a dense 2D code on a crowded label. Beyond that there is nothing to specify: no peel, no rewind, no cutter, no 600 dpi. If you need any of those the ZT411 does them and this does not, at any price.
There is no colour touch screen here — two lines of text and a keypad — and both machines print the same label onto the same stock. If the printer sits in a clean warehouse on a normal network, buy the ZT411 and keep the difference. If it sits somewhere you would not leave a laptop, buy this.
It runs both kinds of label. Like every industrial machine, this one does direct thermal and thermal transfer both — load a ribbon or do not. Which stock goes in it is decided by how long the label has to survive, and that is settled on the labels page, not here. Connectivity is serial, USB, Bluetooth and gigabit Ethernet in the one machine, which is unusual this far down a range and is the other reason people end up on it: an old serial device and a modern network, without an adapter in between.
| Zebra part number | What is in the box | Price inc GST |
|---|---|---|
| ZT51042-T0P0000Z | Zebra ZT510 TT 4" 203DPI, Industrial, BTLE, USB, Serial, Gigabit Ethernet, Multi, Tear Off USB Cable Power cord |
$2,799 |
| ZT51043-T0P0000Z | Zebra ZT510 TT 4" 300DPI, Industrial, BTLE, USB, Serial, Gigabit Ethernet, Multi, Tear Off USB Cable Power cord |
$3,499 |
1 year, return to base — the unit comes back to us for repair or replacement rather than somebody coming out to you. Warranty runs by model rather than by price, so it is worth checking against whatever else you are comparing.
Our distributor does not publish a stock figure for this printer — it is one to check rather than assume. Ring or email and we will have an answer the same day, usually within the hour. We would far rather tell you it is three weeks away than take an order we cannot fill.
What is on this page is what you pay when it is available. Checking stock does not change the number, and it is not the opening of a negotiation.
That is genuinely all we need. You get a written quote back with freight worked out to your actual address, because a printer to Parramatta and one to Port Hedland are not the same delivery and we would rather not pretend otherwise. A new account pays before it ships, and the clock starts when the payment confirms.
If you have a written quote from somebody else on the same part number, we will match it. No haggling required, and no need to pretend you have not been looking.
Tell us what you are printing, and onto what. Thirty-five years of these conversations says the answer is usually simpler, and cheaper, than it looks from the inside.