BIXOLON SLP-DX223 2-inch Direct Thermal Desktop Label Printer, 300 dpi, 101 mm/s, USB & Ethernet, Dark Grey

The BIXOLON SLP-DX223 is a 2-inch desktop label printer that prints by direct thermal at 300 dpi and up to 101.6 mm/s (4 ips), made for product, price and small shelf labels, specimen and asset labels, and narrow receipts up to about 60 mm wide.

It connects over USB 2.0, Ethernet. Its BPL-Z and BPL-E emulations accept ZPL II and EPL label formats, so most labels created for Zebra printers print without rework. It is a compact, single-user or workgroup printer for counters, packing benches, back offices and small warehouses rather than a 24/7 industrial line printer.

In practice it sits between a PC or POS terminal and a roll of labels: you design labels in label software such as BarTender, or print them straight from your ERP, WMS, e-shop back office or courier portal. Label size, gap and darkness are set once in the driver or by a quick media calibration, and after that every print lands in the same place on the label.

• SLP-DX223 label printer
• AC/DC power adapter and power cord
• USB cable
• No labels — media is ordered separately

• Labels from 15–60 mm wide on rolls up to 130 mm outside diameter — typical 25 to 58 mm product labels and 58 mm receipt rolls fit; 100 mm shipping labels do not.
• At up to 101.6 mm/s (4 ips) a 50 mm long label prints in roughly 0.5 seconds, so batches of a few hundred labels are a matter of minutes.
• On the network (Ethernet) several PCs can print to it, so one printer can serve a packing bench or an office.
• No ribbon to buy or change: running cost is the labels only, and loading a new roll takes seconds.

• Media wider than 60 mm or rolls larger than 130 mm outside diameter.
• Ribbons and thermal transfer-only labels — this model has no ribbon mechanism.
• Colour printing, photos or ordinary A4 office printing — it prints one colour (black) on label media.