Honeywell PX4ie 4-Inch Industrial Thermal Transfer Label Printer 203 dpi Ethernet Rewinder Self-Strip Label Taken Sensor PX4E010000005120

End of life. Honeywell has placed the PX4ie at end of life and names PX45A00000020200 as the successor to this exact configuration in its own channel text. Barcode Printer Shop does not currently stock a Honeywell industrial printer successor. Honeywell publishes no discontinuation date and no service-end date for the PX4ie: its product pages have been withdrawn and the model does not appear on Honeywell's discontinued-products list, so no date is stated here rather than one being estimated. Remaining PX4E010000005120 stock is sold for fleet matching, replacement units and validated workflows where requalifying a new model is not practical.

Key Features

• Media option 5 is fitted: a rewinder, enhanced self-strip and the label taken sensor, so it peels labels off the liner, rewinds the liner and holds each label until the operator takes it.
• Nominal 4-inch: prints 112 mm (4.4 in) wide on direct thermal media and 110 mm (4.3 in) on thermal transfer.
• Runs 100 to 300 mm per second, which is 4 to 12 ips, at 203 dpi.
• Takes media from 25.4 mm to 120 mm wide, so it runs narrow 1-inch stock as well as full-width labels.
• Available on the platform at 203, 300 or 406 dpi; this part number is the 203 dpi build.
• Ethernet, USB and serial are all fitted. There is no Wi-Fi on this part number, no parallel port and no RFID encoder.
• Real time clock fitted, so labels can carry a print date or an expiry calculated on the printer.
• Universal firmware: Fingerprint, Direct Protocol, IPL, ZSim2 for ZPL-II and DPL for Datamax, all included.
• 128 MB Flash with 256 MB of DDR2 SDRAM, double the RAM of Honeywell's PC43 desktop range.
• Ribbon roll to 80 mm outside diameter, roughly 450 m, on a 25.4 mm core: an industrial supply rather than a desktop one.
• Internal power supply taking 90 to 265 V AC directly, so there is no external brick to mount.
• Communication cables are sold separately. No USB, Ethernet or serial lead is supplied with this printer.

Key Specifications

• Print method: Thermal transfer as configured, on a platform that also runs direct thermal media
• Resolution: 203 dpi (8 dots per mm). The platform also offers 300 and 406 dpi
• Print width: Up to 112 mm (4.4 in) direct thermal, 110 mm (4.3 in) thermal transfer; maximum print length 4095 mm (161 in) at 203 dpi
• Print speed: 100 to 300 mm per second (4 to 12 ips)
• Media width: Maximum 120 mm (4.72 in), minimum 25.4 mm (1 in)
• Media handling: Rewinder, enhanced self-strip and label taken sensor, plus the rotating unwinding media hanger
• Media: Labels and tags, roll-fed or fanfold; roll to 213 mm (8.38 in) outside diameter; core 38 to 76 mm (1.5 to 3 in); thickness 2.4 to 10.0 mil; sensing by gap, notch, black mark or continuous
• Ribbon: Wax, mid-range and resin; roll to 80 mm (3.15 in) outside diameter, approximately 450 m; core inside diameter 25.4 mm (1 in). Ink-side orientation is not published
• Interfaces: Ethernet 10/100, USB 2.0 and RS-232 to 115.2 KB/s. No Wi-Fi, no parallel port and no RFID encoder on this configuration
• Memory and display: 128 MB Flash, 256 MB DDR2 SDRAM, optional multi-GB USB memory device; 2.3 in colour LCD with an interactive numeric keypad; real time clock fitted
• Power: Internal supply, 90 to 265 V AC at 45 to 65 Hz; 5 W standby, 125 W continuous average, 400 W peak
• Dimensions and weight: 482 x 238 x 275 mm (19.0 x 9.4 x 10.8 in), 12.61 kg (27.87 lb)

Configuration decoded

The PXie configuration code reassembles character for character against Honeywell's own configuration map, which makes this decode far stronger than the reconstructed one on the PC43 range. PX4E010000005120 reads as: 4-inch PXie, universal firmware, connectivity 1 for Ethernet with USB and serial, no I/O options in either field, 128 MB Flash with 256 MB DDR2, the rotating unwinding media hanger, media option 5 for the rewinder with enhanced self-strip and label taken sensor, a real time clock, and a 203 dpi printhead. Honeywell's own channel description names the same attributes independently, which is the cross-check that matters.

This is a PXie

This is a PXie, not a PX4i or a PX6i, and the distinction runs the opposite way to what the model name suggests to most people. The PXie range is the successor generation to the older Intermec PX4i and PX6i, not a value tier below them: Honeywell's own user guide is titled the PX4ie and PX6ie High Performance Printer User Guide, and the platform carries 128 MB of Flash with 256 MB of DDR2 SDRAM, roughly 450 m of ribbon capacity, an internal power supply and a 2.3 in colour LCD with a numeric keypad. The older PX4i and PX6i equivalents carry part numbers beginning PX4C and PX6C. Anything positioning a PX4E or PX6E part number as entry level has confused the two ranges.

Peeler and rewinder

This part number is fitted with the enhanced self-strip package: a rewinder, the self-strip mechanism and a label taken sensor. In use that means the printer peels each label off its liner, winds the spent liner onto an internal rewinder, and holds the peeled label in place until the operator lifts it, at which point the next one prints. That is what an applicator position or a pack bench wants, because it removes the peeling step and paces the printer to the operator rather than to the queue. It is not a cutter: cut labels are a different media code and a different part number. Note that the 6-inch PX6E010000000120 we also list carries media option 0 and has none of this.

Interfaces fitted

Ethernet 10/100, USB 2.0 and RS-232 at up to 115.2 KB/s are all fitted, and the network stack is unusually complete for a printer: TCP/IP, LPR/LPD, FTP, BOOTP, DHCP, HTTP, SNMPv3, SMTP, NTP and both IPv4 and IPv6. What is not fitted is equally definite. There is no Wi-Fi on this part number, because the connectivity field would have to be 2 or 3 for that, and there is no RFID encoder and no parallel port, because both I/O option fields read none. That last point is worth stating plainly: two distributor sites print a parallel port against this exact part number, they are one shared feed rather than two sources, and the configuration code and Honeywell's own channel text both contradict them.

Media and ribbon

Media runs from 25.4 mm to 120 mm wide, roll-fed or fanfold, on a roll up to 213 mm across with a core between 38 mm and 76 mm, at thicknesses from 2.4 to 10.0 mil. Sensing covers gap, notch, black mark and continuous stock. The 25.4 mm minimum is worth noting against the 6-inch PX6ie, which cannot go below 76 mm, so a site running both sizes of label needs the 4-inch machine for the narrow work. Ribbon is wax, mid-range or resin on a 25.4 mm core, with a roll up to 80 mm across holding roughly 450 m, against 300 m at best on Honeywell's PC43t desktop unit. Ink-side orientation is not published and is worth confirming before a bulk ribbon order.

Printer languages

Every PXie ships the full command language set, because the firmware field has only one code: Fingerprint, Direct Protocol, IPL, ZSim2 as a ZPL-II emulation and DPL as a Datamax emulation. ZSim2 is the one that decides most replacement purchases, and it is included rather than being an extra-cost option, so an existing ZPL label format prints on this machine without being rewritten. There is one important gap: the PXie range does NOT carry ESim, the EPL emulation. A site replacing an older Zebra that still speaks EPL can drop in a Honeywell PC43 and cannot drop in a PXie, and that is worth checking against the label formats in use before the order rather than after. Configuration is by the PrintSet web interface, with an InterDriver Windows driver and CUPS for Linux.

Not published by Honeywell

Four things are missing from this listing because Honeywell does not publish them for the PXie range, and they are stated as absences rather than filled in from a sibling product. Honeywell prints no warranty term, no package-contents list, no MTBF or printhead-life figure and no processor specification on the PXie data sheet, and two independent passes confirmed each of them. In particular the warranty term published for the Honeywell PC43 desktop range belongs to that data sheet and is not carried across here: they are different product lines with different service programmes. What Honeywell does state is that communication cables are sold separately, so no USB, Ethernet or serial lead is in the carton. Ask us to confirm the current warranty and carton contents with Honeywell before the order.

Discontinued status

Honeywell has placed the PX4ie at end of life and names PX45A00000020200 as the successor to this exact configuration in its own channel text. Two independent distributors corroborate both the status and the successor part number. What does not exist is a date: Honeywell's product pages for the PX4ie have been withdrawn and return nothing, and the model does not appear on Honeywell's published discontinued-products list, so there is no discontinuation date and no service-end date to quote. That is a real difference from Honeywell's PC43 desktop range, which does publish both. Buy this printer to match an existing fleet, to replace a failed unit, or to keep a validated line running without requalifying label formats, and confirm service availability with us at the time of order.

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