Zebra ZC100 Series User Manual - Double-Sided Printing

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Contact Station

Smart Card Interface

When a command to the printer interface sends a card to the smart card contact station, the printer connects the 

smart card contact station to the female DB-9 connector on the rear of the printer.

DB-9 Connector (detail)

An attached external smart card programmer can be used to program smart card chips. The following table shows 

the smart card contact points.

Double-sided Printing

The “flipper” printing module enables double-sided printing on applicable printers. Additionally, when the flipper 

module is installed, rejected cards are sent to the rejected card area rather than the output hopper.

Wi-Fi

A printer with the wireless option ships with the wireless radio pre-installed in the printer.

Printer location is important to ensure that adequate signal strength is achieved. Follow these suggestions:

• Position the printer as close to the access point that it will connect to as possible.

• If possible, orient the printer such that there is a clear line of sight between the printer antenna and the access 

point antenna.

• Locate the printer such that there are no intervening walls in the line of sight between the antennas.

• Do not put the printer in a cabinet, especially not a metal one.

• Do not locate large metal objects close to the printer antenna.

• Do not locate the printer close to devices that emit RF radiation in the 2.4 GHz range; such devices might include: 

microwave ovens, cordless phones, wireless surveillance cameras, baby monitors, wireless video transmitter and 

Bluetooth devices, etc.

Description

Communication

To connect to a wireless network, the printer uses wireless protocol IEEE 802.11b/g that communicates data through 

radio transmission and can talk to Access Points that are either 802.11b or 802.11g compliant.

The wireless printer communicating over 802.11b radio: 

• Allows nominal data rates over the air of 11 Mbps as per 802.11b standard. 

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Smart Card Contact Points

DB-9 

Smart Card Contact Points

1

C1 (VCC)

6

C6 (Vpp)

2

C2 (Reset)

7

C7 (I/O)

3

C3 (Clock)

8

C8 (RFU)

4

C4  (RFU)

9

(GND when chip 

is at station)

5

C5 (GND)