A four inch mobile printer, which is the width a desktop or industrial machine prints. A full despatch label, a pallet label or a rack location comes out of it while you are standing at the pallet or the rack, and the battery is built for a full day of it.
The photograph is the argument. Those are rack location labels — aisle, level, space, a barcode under each — printed at the racking rather than carried out from an office on a sheet.
This and the ZQ620 are the same printer in two widths. The extra $100 buys the wider label and a battery that lasts about twice as long, and the width is the part that cannot be worked around.
Four inches is the standard 100 mm stock — an address label, a carton label, a pallet label, a rack location. If the label already comes off a ZD421 or a ZT411 at that width and you now want it printed out on the floor, this is the one that does it. The three inch machine cannot, at any setting.
Roughly double, and it is the reason this gets bought even where three inches would have done. A printer on a trolley or a forklift that runs most of the day is a different duty from one that prints forty labels at the shelf edge, and a flat battery mid-shift costs more than the difference in price.
This is the job the photograph shows, and it is the one worth understanding. Bin and rack labels are ordinarily printed in an office, carried out on a sheet, and stuck up by somebody working from a list — which is where locations end up on the wrong bay. A four inch mobile printer moves the printing to the racking, so the label is made at the place it is about to go on.
Direct thermal, like every mobile printer here. Nothing to load and nothing to replace, and the print fades with sunlight, heat and handling. A despatch label read this week is exactly right. A rack label meant to still be scanned in three years is not — that wants thermal transfer on a fixed machine, or not a printed label at all.
The Plus models take different firmware and drivers from the ZQ600s they replace. Same printer to look at and to use; Zebra redesigned the electronics to keep the line available. Worth knowing before it joins a fleet somebody already manages.
Four inches is the whole question. If nothing you print on the move is wider than a shelf ticket, the ZQ620 is $100 less and lighter to carry all day. If anything is a full despatch or pallet label, this is the only one of the two that prints it, and the bigger battery comes with it.
It is 203 dpi, which is right for barcodes and plain text. Both mobile printers are, and neither is the machine for small type or a dense 2D code on a little label.
| Zebra part number | What is in the box | Price inc GST |
|---|---|---|
| ZQ63-AAXAA04-00 | Zebra Printer ZQ630, Mobile Plus, 4", BT5, WIFI6, Linered Platen Battery |
$1,799 |
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.
Every printer on this site is held in an Australian warehouse rather than on a shelf in Sydney, and it goes from there to your door without stopping at our office. That saves a leg of freight and a day. Paid before 2pm on a business day and it generally leaves the same day.
Which is the honest half of the sentence above. A run on one model can mean a wait, and you will hear that from us when you ask rather than after you have paid.
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.