The step up from the ZD220. Same four inch label and the same choice between a ribbon and none — but this one will happily do a thousand freight labels a day, which the entry-level machine will not, and it connects the way your business actually works rather than the one way it was plugged in on day one.
Six part numbers on this page, which is two questions and a choice of radio. Answer them and there is exactly one printer left.
The six versions come down to two choices, and the second is the one most often decided by accident.
Exactly the decision on the ZD220, and it matters more than anything else here. Direct thermal for labels read within weeks; thermal transfer for anything that has to still be readable next year. Get this wrong and the printer is fine but the labels are unreadable.
USB belongs to one computer. Ethernet belongs to the network, so a system can print to it rather than a person. Wireless suits a bench that moves, or a building where running a cable is the expensive part — and on this page wireless comes on the thermal transfer versions. If you want direct thermal and wireless together, ask: Zebra is mid-transition on those part numbers and we would rather quote you one that is still going to be here.
The wireless versions carry a modular connectivity slot. That is what stops today's decision being permanent — the way the printer connects can be changed later without changing the printer, which is worth having when nobody can say what the network will look like in three years.
The two wireless part numbers differ only in which radio is inside. PX02 is Wi-Fi 6 — 802.11ax with Bluetooth 5.3 in the table below. PW02 is Wi-Fi 5 — 802.11ac with Bluetooth 4. Same printer otherwise. The newer radio is the cheaper of the two, $911 against $925, so unless you have a reason to match older access points the answer is the Wi-Fi 6 version. That is the sort of thing a part number will not tell you and we will.
If one PC prints the labels and always will, buy the ZD220. It does the same four inch label for a hundred dollars less and we would rather sell you that than something you are not using. This printer earns the difference when a second person needs to print, when a system does it instead of a person, or when the printer has to keep working through a change nobody has planned yet.
| Zebra part number | What is in the box | Price inc GST |
|---|---|---|
| ZD4A042-D0PM00EZ | Zebra ZD421d - 203 dpi Direct Thermal printer - USB USB Cable Power supply & power cord |
$612 |
| ZD4A042-D0PE00EZ | Zebra ZD421d - 203 dpi Direct Thermal printer - USB & Ethernet USB Cable Power supply & power cord |
$765 |
| ZD4A042-30PM00EZ | Zebra ZD421t - 203 dpi Thermal Transfer printer - USB USB Cable Power supply & power cord |
$716 |
| ZD4A042-30PE00EZ | Zebra ZD421t - 203 dpi Thermal Transfer printer - USB & Ethernet USB Cable Power supply & power cord |
$875 |
| ZD4A042-30PX02EZ | Zebra ZD421t - 203 dpi Thermal Transfer printer - USB & WLAN & Modular Connectivity Slot, 802.11ax, BT5.3 USB Cable Power supply & power cord |
$911 |
| ZD4A042-30PW02EZ | Zebra ZD421t - 203 dpi Thermal Transfer printer - USB & WLAN & Modular Connectivity Slot, 802.11ac, BT4 USB Cable Power supply & power cord |
$925 |
2 years, 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.