What the taken sensor changes

Printing labels faster than someone can pick them up creates its own problem. The second label leaves the printer, meets the first one still sitting on the exit, and the adhesive does exactly what adhesive does. The result is a jam, and a jam at a service counter is a queue.

This build includes the paper taken sensor, which the SRP-S300 range offers as an option. It watches the exit slot and holds the next label in the buffer until the previous one has been lifted clear. Orders queued in the print spooler stay queued in order, and they come out one at a time in the order they were sent.

Alongside it sits the built-in B-Melodist, which can speak an error aloud rather than blink a light nobody is looking at, and can sound a single chime or a repeating alarm when an order is ready to collect.

Where it earns its keep

Paper that lasts longer than it looks

Bixolon pairs the linerless path with a back-feed step. Rather than leaving a gap of blank stock above each label so the cutter has somewhere safe to land, the printer pulls the media back before it starts the next one. The brochure puts the leading gap at 4.6 mm instead of 14.6 mm, which turns a 50 mm label into a 40 mm one and takes roughly a fifth off the length of every job.

A separate paper saving mode trims the length of a printed receipt by up to a quarter by tightening the spacing it leaves around the text. Between the two, a roll that nominally holds a set number of metres produces noticeably more labels than the arithmetic suggests.

The paper path is shaped to resist jamming and the guillotine cutter is designed to be swapped out without a service visit, which matters on a machine that cuts every single label rather than one receipt per sale.

Media and consumables

The printer takes rolls up to 103 mm in diameter with a media thickness between 0.06 and 0.09 mm, in widths of 83, 80, 62, 58 or 40 mm. The TX build is specified for Linerless Extreme stock, which is a different adhesive class from the sticky and re-stick media used by the SRP-S300L.

We carry 80 mm linerless rolls that match the width and diameter, including 80 mm x 82 m full-cover linerless thermal rolls and 80 mm x 82 m continuous linerless label stock with black marks. Adhesive class varies between linerless products, so call us on 1300 115 808 before you commit to a pallet and we will confirm the match against your application.

SRP-S300TX or SRP-S300L

We list two machines from this family and they are not interchangeable. The difference is the media, not the feature list.

If you are replacing an existing machine, match the roll you already buy first and let that decide which body you order. The SRP-S300L listing is here.

Full specifications

Common questions