Introducing the B-EX series - a premium range of industrial printers for a wide variety of applications with a mid-range price tag.

We’ve combined 60 years of Auto-ID knowledge, our extensive R&D and critical ‘voice of customer’ feedback with the exceptional qualities of our market-leading industrial printer range to design and manufacture a thermal printer series with enhanced performance, serviceability and truly green credentials.

USABILITY

Continuing on from the easy operation of the SX range, the B-EX range also incorporates a user-replaceable snap-in printhead and platen roller, further reducing maintenance costs.

The unique intuitive graphical LCD ‘helpdesk’ display improves usability and prompts even the novice user to take immediate corrective action where necessary, keeping user training to a minimum.

FAST & FLEXIBLE

With a speed of 14 ips, the B-EX4 boasts a 40% improvement in productivity on the SX range (10 ips).

Ethernet and USB 2.0 are standard with options for parallel, serial and wireless LAN. It is fully compatible with the B-SX range, allowing for the swift migration of legacy printers. In addition, advanced processing capabilities facilitate high throughput.

DURABILITY

Toshiba has packaged the superior design elements of the market-leading B-SX4 into the matt-black B-EX4 to provide customers with a high-end industrial product at a mid-range price. Features include: side opening; double ribbon motor control; automatic centre media loading; near-edge or fl at printhead; optional ribbon save; BCI (Basic Command Interpreter) compatibility. (Toshiba uses Basic Command Language to control the printer’s interface.)

ENHANCED FUNCTIONALITY

The B-EX range boasts further sophisticated features: data logging function; internal file storage; automatic thermal printhead DPI detection; LAN address display; simple LAN set-up; graphical sensor threshold on display; auto-home position function; fi rmware update via external memory; ribbon wrinkle cancelling
(to reduce paper and ribbon wastage).

GREEN CREDENTIALS

Toshiba is committed to the design and production of products that reduce environmental impact, creating environmental quality standards for each product and prescribing them with the highest levels required by the industry. All Toshiba products are RoHS compliant.
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RFID READY

What is RFID?
It is a method of automatically identifying items using radio waves. In the case of the B-EX series, the RFID module writes digital information to an RFID tag mounted inside adhesive labels or tag paper, while the printer is printing data on them. The actual RFID tag is a microchip attached to an antenna. This integrated circuit provides data storage to record and store information. While this microchip holds data, the antenna enables the tag in order for it to both send and receive data. The tag absorbs some of the RF energy from the reader signal and then reflects the RF energy as a return radio signal containing information from its memory. RFID offers a number of advantages over previous ID systems. For example, unlike barcodes, RFID tags don't require "Line of Sight" to the tag reader, while barcode scanners need to "See" to read the barcode. Standard barcodes only identify the manufacturer and product, not unique items, and RFID allows for individual items to have a unique identifier while identifying many items at once.
 
Toshiba TEC’s RFID Ready Printers
Toshiba TEC’s B-EX range of printers can be easily updated using an RFID kit; data can be easily updated using an RFID kit; data can then be encoded to smart labels using RFID transponders of different standards and frequencies.  From the industrial product line, a new integrated feature of the B-EX4Tand B-EX5T printer series is the ‘head-up’ function. This unique feature raises the printer head above the delicate microchip exactly at the moment when a message is being written on a RFID transponder label. This innovative design feature allows longer MTBF (Mean Time between Failures) of the printer, and zero-chance of damage to some of the thicker microchips in the marketplace embedded inside the label.

Toshiba EX-Series Head Function with RFID