The Newest Thermal Label Printer Has Arrived!

egough • November 6, 2018

This technology is from out of this world. At least it seems like it.

SATO America teased the masses with a teaser video that showed nothing but a thermal label barcode printer floating through space, heading towards Earth, and a page with a countdown timer that has now expired.

The video shows a close-up of the printer’s mini-display that reads SATO before it loads to a navigable menu. The thermal barcode label printer slowly floats through outer space and the camera’s point of view slowly tilts upwards until Earth can be seen with the Sun just over the horizon. The final seconds of the video show the SATO logo with the words “Landing Soon” and “Beyond Expectation” written beneath.

Exciting! What’s even more exciting is that we now know what that printer is!

Sato America has announced a new series of thermal barcode label printers called the CL4NXseries. The printer features a 3.5-inch full-color display with included video tutorials and support for 30 different languages. Add to that the CL4NX's“tool-less” design, making maintenance and repair easier than ever.

The CL4NXalso boasts a 60” high lift printhead mechanism, and easily accessible media path, wind/in and wind/out labels and ribbons, a cast aluminum frame, metal construction, cast aluminum print mechanism, and a heavy duty cutter option.

SATO is calling the CL4NXtheir “first truly universal industrial label printer engineered for the most demanding printing applications.” Those applications include warehousing, supply chain logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and “any vertical and application that would require a durable and dependable printer for years to come.”

Gary Krause, SATO America’s marketing director said, “Undoubtedly the new CL4NXis revolutionary. It is feature rich, easily surpassing today’s field of competitive printers, and truly does set a new height of expectation in operation performance and customer facing technology. It’s the next generation leader in barcode printers.”

SATO CL4NX

For more information on the SATO CL4NXor all your thermal label printer, labeling and barcode scanning needs, call us at (800) 643-2664 and immediately talk to one of our friendly representatives; or chat us up on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn!

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