The New Year is approaching, and with it, personal and work improvement plans. In January 2020, Epson’s new ColorWorks CW-C6500 color label printer will arrive, making it the perfect addition to your fleet of business label printers.

Companies that print high volumes of labels have historically relied on large fleets of thermal transfer printers and pre-printed color labels to produce their color labels. The pre-printed material has blank areas which are then printed with the black thermal transfer printer. This allows for some customization but, as you can imagine, has some limitations.

For example, where are you going to get your pre-printed label stock in the first place? This will most likely be through a third-party print service provider. That incurs setup and die costs. It also usually requires a large minimum order. If labeling requirements change, pre-printed labels should be discarded. Meanwhile, staff must constantly manage tag inventory. Running out of pre-printed labels will result in serious downtime until new labels can be ordered, printed, shipped, and delivered.

The Epson ColorWorks CW-C6500 label printer is designed to replace thermal transfer printers.

This is where the Epson CW-C6500 Color Label Printer shines. Not only does it allow businesses to print in full color, it does so on demand. There is no need to order, store, manage, or potentially waste pre-printed labels. The Epson CW-C6500 color label printer comes in two versions, one with an auto cutter (CW-C6500A) and one with a peeler (CW-C6500P). Both are ColorWorks 8-inch label printers with features, media handling capabilities and connectivity options comparable to the leading thermal transfer printers currently in use in today’s enterprise label printing environments.

Epson CW-C6500 Features

Among the many features of the Epson CW-C6500 Color Label Printer are:

• 8-inch print width (a 4-inch model, the CW-C6000 will arrive in May 2020)

• 1200 dpi print resolution

• Print speed up to 5 inches per second

• PrecisionCore TFP Series Printheads

• GHS BS5609 certified when used with certain DuraFast pigment ink chemistry labels

• Interface language ESC/Label and ZPL II

• Remote printer management

• Seamless integration with SAP, middleware, Windows, Mac OS and Linux

• Applicator I/O Port

• low cost

business benefits

Adding Epson CW-C6500 color label printers to an existing fleet of thermal transfer printers is just as easy, reliable and affordable as adding thermal transfer printers, but with the added benefit of full color label production. This printer and its 4-inch sibling are poised to transform the business label printing industry in 2020.