- EVOLUTION High Resolution ink jet printers have become the industry standard on countless production lines in the packing industry. This “standard” is also available in a portable hand-held model which can be used for field tagging applications, in place of manually applied labels or manual stenciling operations.
- The hand held-held model can be supplied with either the: EV1, EV2, EV1-LX or EV2-LX printhead modules.
- It includes the Universal Controller , printhead module, a 12 volt rechargeable battery pack, 120 volt. AC wall charger and a 12 volt. automobile charger.
- The hand-held with either the EV1 or EV1-LX printhead starts out as a very basic system. It will print a message in either one line of 1/2″(12.7 mm) or two lines of 7/32″(5.5 mm). OPTIONAL SOFTWARE PACKAGES for EV1 or EV1-LX can add enhanced features.
- Configuring the hand-held unit with EV2 or EV2-LX printhead module gives you all the optional software features of the EV1 or EV1-LX as standard.
- The 12 volt rechargeable battery pack supplies enough power for up to 12 hours of operation.
- Backlit controller with WYSIWYG LCD display and alpha/numeric tactile style keypad.
- Alphanumeric keypad with 16 special characters.
- Printhead module with built-in product sensor.
- Multiple Language (English, Spanish, German and French) prompts.
- 300dpi print resolution with EV1 and EV2 printhead module.
- Selectable 300 dpi print resolution or 600 dpi print resolution with EV1-LX and EV2-LX printhead module.
- Print up to 24 1/2″ (12.7mm) high characters, or 48 7/32″ (5.5 mm) characters per message
- with EV1 or EV1-LX printheads.
- The EV2 and EV2-LX can print up to 48 characters 1/2″ (12.7mm) high in one line, 96 characters 7/32″ (5.5 mm) high in two lines,
- 144 characters 1/8″ (3.2 mm) high in three lines or 192 characters 3/32″ (2.4 mm) in four lines.
- 12 volt rechargeable battery pack.
- 120 volt AC wall charger and 12 volt DC automobile charger.
- Print Logos as bitmap (*.bmp) files.
- Embedded EVP (Evolution Commnunication Protocol) for full control of the printing process from an external source (i.e. PLC, PC, Systems Integration, etc).
Optional Hardware:
- An optional built-in encoder is available for the LX versions of the EVOLUTION I and II.
- The encoder option ensures that all of the characters being printed will be the same width regardless of the hand speed.
Optional Software:
There are four Optional Software Packages available for the EVOLUTION I or EVOLUTION I-LX printheads. They can be ordered with the original system purchase or field upgraded via a flash card as need arises. These software enhancements can take the EVOLUTION Hand-Held printer from a basic system to a fully featured printer or anywhere in between depending on your application