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.
One part number, and a price that sits somewhere surprising. Worth reading before you assume where it belongs in the range.
The ZT510 is $3,333. A ZT411 starts at $2,298 and a ZT421 at $3,995 — so this lands above the cheaper machine and below the wider one, which is not where its own brochure puts it. That is worth being straight about, because it changes who should buy it.
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.
The colour touch screen, first of all: this has two lines of text and a keypad. Then the media handling — there is no peel, no rewind and no cutter option here, and no 300 or 600 dpi printhead. If any of those matter, the ZT411 does them and this does not, at any price.
Both machines print a four inch label at 203 dpi 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 |
$3,333 |
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.