A printhead is a consumable with a long life rather than a component that lasts forever. When it goes, the printer is not finished — it needs the right head, and usually a conversation about what wore the last one out.
We supply heads for the printers we sell and for a good many we stopped selling years ago, because plenty of those are still working and a good machine is not finished just because one part is worn. Whether yours is one of those is the first thing worth working out, and it is further down this page.
Onsite where we attend, or the machine comes to us from anywhere else — rates and areas are on that page. Fitting a head is usually the smaller half of the job.
Get either wrong and the part will not fit, or it will fit and print badly. Both are printed on the machine.
Not the range. A Z4M and a ZM400 are different machines and take different heads, and both are on a plate on the back or underneath — a photograph of it settles this in one message. Sometimes the answer is better than you expect: the ZT410 and the ZT411 that replaced it take the same printhead part number, so an older ZT410 is no harder to supply than the current model.
203, 300 and 600 dpi heads are not interchangeable, and the same printer model was sold more than one way. A 300 dpi head in a printer set up for 203 prints labels that look wrong and scan worse. Most warehouse labels are 203; 300 is for small type and dense codes; 600 is for genuinely fine detail on a small label.
Ask why the last one died before ordering the next. A printhead that lasted six months rather than several years usually did not fail — it was worn out early, by a ribbon and a label stock that were never meant to meet, or by a machine printing at a darkness setting that was compensating for the wrong pairing. Replacing the head without changing that buys you another six months. We would rather ask about the labels and ribbons first.
And sometimes the honest answer is not to fit one. A printhead is often around a third of what the printer cost. On an industrial machine that is obvious arithmetic — a new head in a ZT421 or a fifteen-year-old ZM400 is a fraction of replacing it, which is exactly why those machines are still working. On an entry-level desktop printer it is the opposite, and nobody repairs those, ourselves included.
So we will ask what the printer is before quoting you a head, and if the numbers say replace we will say replace — even though the head is the thing you rang about and the thing we would rather sell you. A quote for a part that is not worth fitting is a quote that costs us the next one.
Zebra printers last a long time in a way that catches people out — a fifteen-year-old machine printing shelf labels every day is a perfectly good machine with a worn part in it.
Grouped by part rather than by printer, because that is where the useful surprises are. The ZT410 and the ZT411 that replaced it take the same head; so do the Z4M and the Z4M Plus. Every one carries a three month warranty.
| Fits | Part | Resolution | Part number | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Z4M Plus, S4M | Platen Roller | any | G77023M | Ask |
| ZT410, ZT411 | Platen Roller | any | P1058930-080 | Ask |
| 105SL | Printhead | 203 dpi | G32432-1M | Ask |
| 105SL | Printhead | 300 dpi | G32433M | Ask |
| 220xi4 | Printhead | 300 dpi | P1004239 | Ask |
| GK420d | Printhead | 203 dpi | PAZ105934037 | In stock |
| GK420t | Printhead | 203 dpi | PAZ105934038 | Ask |
| S4M | Printhead | 203 dpi | G41400M | In stock |
| S4M | Printhead | 300 dpi | G41401M | Ask |
| Z4M, Z4M Plus | Printhead | 203 dpi | G79056-1M | Low stock |
| Z4M, Z4M Plus | Printhead | 300 dpi | 79057M | Ask |
| ZM400 | Printhead | 203 dpi | 79800M | Ask |
| ZM400 | Printhead | 300 dpi | 79801M | Ask |
| ZT410, ZT411 | Printhead | 203 dpi | P1058930-009 | Ask |
| ZT410, ZT411 | Printhead | 300 dpi | P1058930-010 | Ask |
| ZT410, ZT411 | Printhead | 600 dpi | P1058930-011 | Ask |
| ZT420 | Printhead | 203 dpi | P1058930-012 | Ask |
Genuine Zebra or an OEM equivalent — and the quote will say which. We supply both. An OEM head is made by somebody other than Zebra to fit the same printer, and depending on the part and the day, one, the other, or both may be available. That is why this page carries part numbers and no prices: the quote is the point at which we can confirm what it costs, whether it is on the shelf or coming in, and whether it is Zebra-branded or OEM. Where there is a genuine choice you get both prices and you decide. What you will not get is one quietly supplied as the other.
Not the printer you are looking at? The list above is what we hold part numbers for, not the limit of what we supply — Zebra printers we stopped selling years ago are still supplied. Ask.
Not a stock photograph and not a render. Our own parts shelf in Berowra, taken on the date above — because "we carry printheads" is the sort of claim every barcode website makes, and a picture of the boxes is the cheapest way to show that this one means it.
A photograph of the model and serial plate answers the first question. What the print looks like now usually answers the second.
That is a burnt-out element and the head is done. Faint on one side, patchy, or fading over a few weeks is usually something else — and worth a phone call before you buy anything.
