ZEBRA 5049 High Speed Performance Ribbons

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Thermal Transfer Ribbons

Zebra's premium thermal transfer ribbon is a high speed wax ink formulation that produces high quality normal and rotated bar codes at speeds up to 12/ips. This ribbon produces a crisp black image with excellent high speed performance and outstanding visible light and infrared scannability. Designed primarily for paper stocks, it also prints on Tyvek^®, a spunbonded olefin.

Suggested Applications

• General purpose, high density bar code and text printing on paper label stocks

• Especially recommended for printing rotated (ladder) bar codes, high resolution graphics and fine text characters

• Quality thermal transfer printing at speeds up to 12" per second

• Printing on Tyvek^®

Part Numbers

The following part numbers are for use with all Zebra printers except the portable and desktop lines.

Note: All the above ribbons are 1,476 feet (450m) in length.

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