BIXOLON XD3-40d 4-inch Direct Thermal Desktop Label Printer, 203 dpi, 127 mm/s, USB, Serial & Ethernet, Black

The BIXOLON XD3-40d is a 4-inch desktop label printer that prints by direct thermal at undefined dpi and up to 127 mm/s (5 ips), made for shipping and courier labels, warehouse and stock labels, and retail product or shelf labels.

It connects over USB 2.0, RS-232 serial, Ethernet 10/100. 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.

• XD3-40d label printer
• External power supply unit and power cable
• USB cable
• No labels — media is ordered separately

• Labels from 15–118 mm wide on rolls up to 127 mm outside diameter — standard 100 × 150 mm (4 × 6 in) shipping labels fit.
• At up to 127 mm/s (5 ips) a 150 mm long label prints in roughly 1.2 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 118 mm or rolls larger than 127 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.