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Home›Compatibility›EPL on BIXOLON printers

EPL on BIXOLON printers

Short answer: BIXOLON documents a EPL emulation mode on 2 model(s) in our database, published under the name Ayni DIP satiri, Ayni DIP satiri; EPL varsayilan konumda ZPL ile birlikte. That name is what you will find in the manual and what support will ask you about — not "EPL support".
This is emulation, not native support. BIXOLON decides how much of EPL its mode covers, and Labelixa has not physically tested it. What that means in practice

BIXOLON models documenting EPL

ModelDocumented modeVendor source
SLP-D420
203 dpi · 104 mm · USB, RS232, Parallel
Ayni DIP satiri; EPL varsayilan konumda ZPL ile birlikteSource
2026-09-02
SLP-D423
300 dpi · 105 mm · USB, RS232, Parallel
Ayni DIP satiriSource
2026-09-02

These are Desktop units from the SLP-D42x family, printing at 203/300 dpi with a 104/105 mm print width, reachable over Parallel, RS232, USB. The interface is part of the answer: an emulation mode is selected on the device or by a prefix in the stream, so how you reach the printer decides how you switch it.

BIXOLON ships these at 203/300 dpi, so the same EPL coordinates land at different physical sizes depending on which unit you got — check that before you blame the emulation for a layout that came out wrong.

The BIXOLON claims here rest on the vendor's user manual. Source type is part of the evidence: a manual ships and is versioned with the product, while a support article can change without notice.

Other languages {uretici} emulates

BIXOLON does not stop at one: the same records document emulation for 3 printer languages in total. The others are DPL, ZPL.

Or use a printer that runs it natively

EPL is documented as a native language on printers from Zebra. If the hardware is still your choice, that removes the emulation question entirely.

All EPL tools and printers

Check your code before you print

Questions

Will my existing EPL labels print unchanged on a BIXOLON printer?
Not necessarily. BIXOLON's mode covers the subset of EPL that BIXOLON chose, so fonts, barcode types and graphics are the usual places where output differs. Send one real label to the device and compare before you migrate a fleet.

All printer language compatibility pages

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