Product profile

PD42
EasyCoder® Printer

• Best performance and The EasyCoder PD42 is a dependable and environment – the printer will adapt.
quality in its class versatile printer suitable for medium The EasyCoder PD42 keeps your options
duty applications in manufacturing, open and protects your investment.
• Metal chassis and covers, transportation and warehousing
proven mechanics environments. With all-metal chassis The EasyCoder PD42 can print demanding
and covers, proven printing mechanics crisp variable-data labels continuously
• User friendly design, simple and powerful electronics, it provides at 150 mm/s (6 ips). It takes industry
one-button operation the sturdiness and performance standard 200-mm (8-in) rolls of labels
your business depends on. and 450 m (18 000 in) of ribbon, reducing
• XML-capable to support downtime for loading media to a minimum.
ERP environments The EasyCoder PD42 is the first Intermec
printer to feature a monochrome, graphical The printer accepts a wide range of paper
• Multi-lingual capability, adapts display, which allows users to set up, types in different thicknesses, as well as
to host environment changes configure and fine tune printing parameters both ink-in and ink-out ribbon. In addition
without having to send commands the EasyCoder PD42 offers many Smart
• Support for downloaded through the host, saving time. The display Printing™ features normally found only
Unicode fonts working in concert with the status lights in high-performance printers. By adding
provides the user specific feedback if Intermec’s LabelShop® Pro and XMLLabel™,
the printer is in an off-line state. the EasyCoder PD42 will be fully
provisioned for XML printing environments.
The ability to use any Intermec printer
language and emulate other printer Support for Unicode fonts and Intermec
protocols makes the EasyCoder PD42 Ready-to-Work™ indicator are standard –
both fully compatible with other Intermec all at an affordable and competitive price.
equipment and a cost-effective “drop- Networking is an increasingly important
in” printer replacement in almost any user requirement but still a rare feature
non-Intermec firmware environment. in this printer class. The EasyCoder PD42
offers EasyLAN™ high-speed, multi-
Using Fingerprint™ programming language, channel Ethernet as a standard choice.
the EasyCoder PD42 can change with the
application. There’s no need to replace the An open and accessible design
printer when you upgrade your software makes media loading quick and easy,
and the print head can easily be
replaced without using any tools.
Application Sensors Character Sets
Direct Thermal and Thermal Transfer label, • Adjustable Gap, Blackmark and Punched Hole 15 TrueDoc™ scalable fonts including 12 UNICODE (1
ticket and tag printing. sensors WGL4 including Latin, Baltic, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish
• Out-of-Media sensor characters ), 1 symbol, 1 OCR-A, 1 OCR-B. Font cache
Physical Characteristics • Out-of-Ribbon sensor for maximum performance. ATF font support. Asian,
Length: 453 mm (17.8 in) • Label Taken sensor Hebrew and Arabic fonts available as option.
Height: 273 mm (10.8 in)
Width: 270 mm (10.6 in) Interfaces Graphics
Weight: 13 kg (28.7 lbs) Standard: Supports PCX file format, traditional BT201 Intelhex
• Serial RS-232 format and High-Speed Image Buffer printing
Print Specifications • USB v. 2.0 full speed
Max. Width: 104 mm (4.09 in) at 203 dpi • Parallel or EasyLAN Ethernet Memory
105.7 mm (4.16 in) at 300 dpi (depending on configuration) Standard: 8MB Flash memory 16MB SDRAM
Max. Length: 1520 mm (59.8 in) at 203 dpi • USB Device v.2.0 full speed (1 Compact Flash slot)
1028 mm (40.5 in) at 300 dpi • USB Host Type A connector Optional: Up to1GB CompactFlash (type 1) memory
Optional:
Print Speed • Parallel IEEE 1284 or Keypad Control Panel
50-150 mm/s (2-6 ips) at 203 dpi • EasyLAN integrated Ethernet: RJ-45 connector for Keypad Control Panel and LCD console
50-100 mm/s (2-4 ips) at 300 dpi 10BaseT or 100baseTX One Print/Pause button
Supported Protocols: TCP/IP-suite (TCP,UDP, ICMP, Four LED indicators: Power; Data Transfer; Error/
Print Direction IGMP, etc.), LPR/LPD, FTP, BOOTP, DHCP, HTTP, Warining; Ready-to-Work
Prints smooth text, any size bar codes and SNMP, SMTP, SNMP-MIB II supported (over UDP/IP), Monochrome graphical display, 160 x 160 pixels
graphics in all four orthogonal directions. private enterprise MIB included
Power Supply
Print Resolution Software Voltage Range: 100-240 VAC ±10% auto switch
• 8 dots/mm (203 dpi) • InterDriver™ Windows printer drivers with Frequency Range: 45-65 Hz
• 12 dots/mm (300 dpi, option) ActiveX Controls
• Intermec LabelShop® START label design Operating Environment
Label/Ticket/Tag and print package Temperature: +5°- 40°C (+40°- 104°F)
Width: 25-118 mm (1.00-4.64 in) • PrintSet for printer configuration Humidity: 20-85% non-condensing free air
25-114 mm (1.00-4.48 in with cutter) • IPNM (Intermec Printer Network Manager)
Thickness: 60-250 µm (2.3 to 9.8 mil) for administration of network connected Regulatory Approvals
Style: Roll-fed, die-cut, continuous or fanfold labels, printers. FCC, UL, cUL, CE, NOM
tags or tickets
Label Roll max. diameter: 213 mm (8.35 in) Bar Code Symbologies Field Installable Accessories
190 mm (7.5 in) with internal rewinder (full roll of 1-dimensional: Codabar, Code 11, Code 39, Code 39 full Internal Rewinder, Cutter, CompactFlash Memory
liner/backing paper) ASCII, Code 39 w. checksum, Code 93, Code 128, Code Cards, Parallel Interface, Real-time clock
Label Roll Core: 37.5 or 75 mm (1.5 or 3 in) 128 Subset A-C, DUN-14/16, EAN-8, EAN-13, EAN-128,
Media Type: Direct Thermal or Thermal Transfer EAN-128 Subset A-C, Five-Character Supplemental
Media: Roll-fed, Fanfold and Continuous. Code, Industrial 2 of 5, Industrial 2 of 5 w. checksum,
Interleaved 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5 w. checksum,
Ribbon Interleaved 2 of 5 A, Matrix 2 of 5, Postnet, Straight 2
Max. Ribbon Length: 450 m (18 000 in) of 5, Two-Character Supplemental Code, UCC-128 Serial
Ribbon Roll Core Diam: 25,4 mm (1.0 in) Shipping Container Code, UPC-5 digits Add-On Code,
Ribbon Width: 30-110 mm (1.18-4.33 in) UPC-A, UPC-D1 to D5, UPC-E, UPC Shipping Container
Winding Direction: Ink-in or Ink-out Code, RSS, Planrt, Plessey
2-dimensional: Code 16K, Code 49, Data Matrix,
MaxiCode, MSI(modified Plessey), PDF 417, QR Code,
MicroPDF417, EAN.UCC Composite

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