Transform retail operations with Zebra’s retail technology solutions, featuring hardware and software for improving inventory management and empowering teams.
Streamline operations with Zebra’s healthcare technology solutions, featuring hardware and software to improve staff collaboration and optimize workflows.
Enhance processes with Zebra’s manufacturing technology solutions, featuring hardware and software for automation, data analysis, and factory connectivity.
Zebra’s transportation and logistics technology solutions feature hardware and software for enhancing route planning, visibility, and automating processes.
Learn how Zebra's public sector technology solutions empower state and local governments to improve efficiency with asset tracking and data capture devices.
Zebra's hospitality technology solutions equip your hotel and restaurant staff to deliver superior customer and guest service through inventory tracking and more.
Zebra's market-leading solutions and products improve customer satisfaction with a lower cost per interaction by keeping service representatives connected with colleagues, customers, management and the tools they use to satisfy customers across the supply chain.
Empower your field workers with purpose-driven mobile technology solutions to help them capture and share critical data in any environment.
Zebra's range of Banking technology solutions enables banks to minimize costs and to increase revenue throughout their branch network. Learn more.
Zebra's range of mobile computers equip your workforce with the devices they need from handhelds and tablets to wearables and vehicle-mounted computers.
Zebra's desktop, mobile, industrial, and portable printers for barcode labels, receipts, RFID tags and cards give you smarter ways to track and manage assets.
Zebra's 1D and 2D corded and cordless barcode scanners anticipate any scanning challenge in a variety of environments, whether retail, healthcare, T&L or manufacturing.
Zebra's extensive range of RAIN RFID readers, antennas, and printers give you consistent and accurate tracking.
Choose Zebra's reliable barcode, RFID and card supplies carefully selected to ensure high performance, print quality, durability and readability.
Zebra's rugged tablets and 2-in-1 laptops are thin and lightweight, yet rugged to work wherever you do on familiar and easy-to-use Windows or Android OS.
With Zebra's family of fixed industrial scanners and machine vision technologies, you can tailor your solutions to your environment and applications.
Zebra’s line of kiosks can meet any self-service or digital signage need, from checking prices and stock on an in-aisle store kiosk to fully-featured kiosks that can be deployed on the wall, counter, desktop or floor in a retail store, hotel, airport check-in gate, physician’s office, local government office and more.
Adapt to market shifts, enhance worker productivity and secure long-term growth with AMRs. Deploy, redeploy and optimize autonomous mobile robots with ease.
Discover Zebra’s range of accessories from chargers, communication cables to cases to help you customize your mobile device for optimal efficiency.
Zebra's environmental sensors monitor temperature-sensitive products, offering data insights on environmental conditions across industry applications.
Zebra's location technologies provide real-time tracking for your organization to better manage and optimize your critical assets and create more efficient workflows.
Enhance frontline operations with Zebra’s AI software solutions, which optimize workflows, streamline processes, and simplify tasks for improved business outcomes.
Empower your frontline with Zebra Companion AI, offering instant, tailored insights and support to streamline operations and enhance productivity.
The everything you need to rapidly and cost effectively develop high-performance AI vision applications on Zebra mobile computers.
Zebra Workcloud, enterprise software solutions boost efficiency, cut costs, improve inventory management, simplify communication and optimize resources.
Keep labor costs low, your talent happy and your organization compliant. Create an agile operation that can navigate unexpected schedule changes and customer demand to drive sales, satisfy customers and improve your bottom line.
Drive successful enterprise collaboration with prioritized task notifications and improved communication capabilities for easier team collaboration.
Get full visibility of your inventory and automatically pinpoint leaks across all channels.
Reduce uncertainty when you anticipate market volatility. Predict, plan and stay agile to align inventory with shifting demand.
Drive down costs while driving up employee, security, and network performance with software designed to enhance Zebra's wireless infrastructure and mobile solutions.
Explore Zebra’s printer software to integrate, manage and monitor printers easily, maximizing IT resources and minimizing down time.
Make the most of every stage of your scanning journey from deployment to optimization. Zebra's barcode scanner software lets you keep devices current and adapt them to your business needs for a stronger ROI across the full lifecycle.
RFID development, demonstration and production software and utilities help you build and manage your RFID deployments more efficiently.
RFID development, demonstration and production software and utilities help you build and manage your RFID deployments more efficiently.
Zebra DNA is the industry’s broadest suite of enterprise software that delivers an ideal experience for all during the entire lifetime of every Zebra device.
Advance your digital transformation and execute your strategic plans with the help of the right location and tracking technology.
Boost warehouse and manufacturing operations with Symmetry, an AMR software for fleet management of Autonomous Mobile Robots and streamlined automation workflows.
The Zebra Aurora suite of machine vision software enables users to solve their track-and-trace, vision inspection and industrial automation needs.
Zebra Aurora Focus brings a new level of simplicity to controlling enterprise-wide manufacturing and logistics automation solutions. With this powerful interface, it’s easy to set up, deploy and run Zebra’s Fixed Industrial Scanners and Machine Vision Smart Cameras, eliminating the need for different tools and reducing training and deployment time.
Aurora Imaging Library™, formerly Matrox Imaging Library, machine-vision software development kit (SDK) has a deep collection of tools for image capture, processing, analysis, annotation, display, and archiving. Code-level customization starts here.
Aurora Design Assistant™, formerly Matrox Design Assistant, integrated development environment (IDE) is a flowchart-based platform for building machine vision applications, with templates to speed up development and bring solutions online quicker.
Designed for experienced programmers proficient in vision applications, Aurora Vision Library provides the same sophisticated functionality as our Aurora Vision Studio software but presented in programming language.
Aurora Vision Studio, an image processing software for machine & computer vision engineers, allows quick creation, integration & monitoring of powerful OEM vision applications.
Adding innovative tech is critical to your success, but it can be complex and disruptive. Professional Services help you accelerate adoption, and maximize productivity without affecting your workflows, business processes and finances.
Zebra's Managed Service delivers worry-free device management to ensure ultimate uptime for your Zebra Mobile Computers and Printers via dedicated experts.
Find ways you can contact Zebra Technologies’ Support, including Email and Chat, ask a technical question or initiate a Repair Request.
Zebra's Circular Economy Program helps you manage today’s challenges and plan for tomorrow with smart solutions that are good for your budget and the environment.
The Zebra Knowledge Center provides learning expertise that can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your environment.
Zebra has a wide variety of courses to train you and your staff, ranging from scheduled sessions to remote offerings as well as custom tailored to your specific needs.
Build your reputation with Zebra's certification offerings. Zebra offers a variety of options that can help you progress your career path forward.
Build your reputation with Zebra's certification offerings. Zebra offers a variety of options that can help you progress your career path forward.
5319 Wax Ribbon
High-Speed Clarity for Versatile Barcode Printing
The Zebra 5319 Wax Ribbon is a performance-driven thermal transfer ribbon featuring a custom wax ink formulation designed for exceptional barcode printing. It delivers high-quality normal and rotated barcodes on both coated and uncoated paper, with impressive print speeds of up to 8 inches per second. This ribbon ensures crisp, black images that maintain clarity even at high speeds, while offering outstanding scannability under both visible light and infrared conditions. Ideal for various applications, the Zebra 5319 Wax Ribbon combines speed, quality, and reliability for effective barcode printing solutions.
Cost-effective supplies
Zebra is the largest purchaser of ribbons globally and we use this buying power to offer competitive pricing across our range. Our zero substitutions policy means you receive the same ribbon formulation every time you order – for consistent and reliable print quality and durability. Plus, a minimum order of just one box ensures that Zebra Certified Supplies are always cost-effective.
Wax Ribbons
Work well for most applications. Ideal for use:
• With paper materials
• Where fast print speeds are required (up to 10ips)
• In environments with little to no exposure to chemicals and/or abrasion
Comprehensive choice
Every year, Zebra supplies many million square meters of ribbon to Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas. Comprehensive product choice means you’ll always be able to find the right printer ribbon for your specific requirements. We hold around 140 different ribbon items for Zebra printers in stock – all available for immediate delivery via ZipShip, our dedicated stocked supplies solution.
The perfect companion for your Zebra labels, tags and printer
Not all thermal ribbons are created equal. There are hundreds of different ribbon formulations in the market. That is why Zebra’s Supplies R&D Team has tested and selected only those ribbons that deliver the best print quality and durability. To get the Zebra name, each ribbon must pass a series of print quality and durability tests.
When you purchase Zebra thermal ribbons you can rest assured that the:
• Print will be readable and scannable every time.
• Print will withstand the environment in which it will be used in.
• Backcoating will not cause premature printhead failure.
5319 Wax Ribbon—A performance-driven thermal transfer ribbon.
For more information, please visit www.zebra.com/ribbons
Specifications
Technical Specifications
| Color | Black |
| Ink Formulation | Wax |
| Base Film | Polyester |
| Base Film Caliper | 4.5 microns |
| Total Caliper | 8.7 microns +/- 10% |
| Scanning Capabilities | IR and Visible Light |
Product Performance and Suitability
| Recommended storage conditions (before use) | 72° F (22° C) at 50% RH |
| Expected Shelf Life | 1 Year |
| Sample Part Number | Black: 05319BK08305 Red: 05319RD08305 |
UL/cUL Certified Materials with this Ribbon
| Z-Xtreme 4000T White & Silver Z-Xtreme 4000T High-Tack White & Silver |
Ribbon Compliance
| REACH / SVHC 1907/2006/EC EU Food Contact 1935/2004/EC US Food Contact FDA RoHS / Heavy Metals 2011/65/EU California Proposition 65 Halogens IEC 61249-2-21:2003 |
Stocked Sizes Available for Zebra Printers
| Essential-range, Mid-range and high-performance thermal printers, other legacy Zebra printers. Other widths/lengths are available on request subject to minimum order quantities and lead times |
Material Testing in End Application
| The information contained in this document is to be used for guidance only and is not intended for use in setting specifications. All purchasers of Zebra products shall be solely responsible for independently determining if the product conforms to all requirements of their unique application. All products should be pre-tested to ensure they meet all intended requirements of specific end-use applications. |
Markets and Applications
- General purpose, high-density bar code and text printing on paper label stocks
- Printing on Tyvek®*
- Quality thermal transfer printing at speeds up to 8” per second
- Recommended for printing rotated (ladder) bar codes, high resolution graphics and fine text characters
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