Zebra G-SERIES User's Guide download pdf (Page 18)

Zebra Desktop Series G-Series Product Guide

PN: 14543L-001 G-series product Guide Rev. 1 6/18/2008

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Throughput testing

The following pages were compiled from the latest manufacturer’s product information as of the date of this document. In

cases where conflicting product specification or functionality information was discovered between a given manufacturer’s

printed or on-line material, the manufacturer was contacted directly for clarification.

Products were acquired for purposes of hands-on competitive analysis performed by engineering and product management

teams.

Performance testing was performed as follows:

Test Station

All products were tested from the same PC.

• Dell Laptop Latitude D630, 2 GB RAM and equipped with Microsoft Windows XP.

• All USB interface test-runs were performed using the same high-quality shielded USB cable.

Test Labels:

All labels were created by hand-coding two real-world label formats with barcodes using the manufacturer’s

specific label programming language. These were produced as identically as possible across manufacturers.

This procedure isolated the performance characteristics of each tested unit to that of the device’s controller

electronics and motion dynamics; i.e., no driver overhead or variability.

• AIAG compliance label

• K-Mart compliance label

• For multi-label test runs, 50 unique sets of numeric data was modified in the label program, terminated

with a memory-flush statement in each, and concatenated into one file.

Methodology:

• The PC was booted in Windows mode for each test-run.

• Label formats were sent to the printer using Zebra's proprietary Splat software utility, version .06.

Timing:

• Timing was performed commencing the test from actuation of the software's "Run Test" button to start

the download, and concluding at the point in time when the trailing-edge of each label (in the case of first-

label-out tests), or when the last of 50 labels (in the case of multi-label tests), ceased forward movement.

• Three (3) test-runs were performed for each of the two label designs for both single and multi-label

combinations, for a total of 12 independent tests for each product. (3 runs x 2 label types x 1 I/Fs x 2 label

volumes.) An average time for each three-run test was then calculated for every combination. Sportline

model 228 timing device was used to monitor each event.

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