ZD888 Direct Thermal Desktop Printer User Guide

Common Desktop Printer Features

Zebra desktop printers are designed for ease of use.

Feature	Description
OpenAccess design	To simplify media loading.
Color-coded touch points for operator controls and media guides	To make it easy to use the printer.
Single control ( FEED ) button and a single, multicolor status indicator	To make it easy to use the printer.
Zebra’s printer operating system (OS	An open platform with software tools needed to integrate, manage, and maintain the printer.
Media roll support	Outer Diameter (O.D.): Up to 127 mm (5 in.) Inner Diameter (I.D.) roll cores: 12.7 mm (0.5 in.), 25.4 mm (1 in.), and an optional 38.1 mm (1.5 in.) media-core adapter set
Half-width movable media sensor	Compatibility with a wide range of media types: Full and partial width black mark media and notched/slotted media—the printer can be set to center to the left side of media for printing. Label gap/web media—the printer features a center-position transmissivity sensor.
Font support	On-the-fly OpenType and TrueType font scaling and import Unicode Resident scalable font (Swiss 721 Latin 1 font) A selection of resident bitmap fonts
Backwards-compatibility focused technology	Eases printer replacement. Drop-in replacement of legacy Zebra desktop printers. Accepts both EPL and ZPL programming language instructions.
Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 interface	For convenient connectivity.
Factory-installed network models	Support printer configuration using a setup utility running on mobile devices.
XML-enabled printing	Used for barcode label printing to lower or eliminate license fees and print server hardware requirements (thereby reducing customization and programming costs).
Zebra global printing solution	Supports the following: Microsoft Windows keyboard encoding (and ANSI), Unicode UTF-8 and UTF-16 (Unicode Transformation Formats) XML ASCII (7-bit and 8-bit used by legacy programs and systems), basic single- and double-byte font encoding JIS and Shift-JIS (Japanese International Standards) Hexadecimal encoding Custom character mapping (DAT table creation, font linking, and character remapping) For China only: Printers have the Simplified Chinese SimSun font pre-installed.
Minimum of 50 MB of internal ( E:\ ) printer memory	To store forms, fonts, and graphics.