🎉 24 Years Strong 🎉

This January 2026, Tri State Business Systems proudly celebrates 24 years of helping businesses streamline operations with reliable barcoding and labeling solutions.

This milestone reflects the trust of our clients, the dedication of our team, and the strength of our valued partnerships — including Zebra Technologies, Clean Mark Label, ScanSource, Bluestar, ID Images, Armor Iimak & Seagull Scientific Barcoding Software.

Together, we’ve delivered innovation, reliability, and efficiency to businesses across industries. Thank you for being part of our journey — here’s to many more years of success!

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Zebra Ribbons Quality-Tested Thermal Ribbons Give You Consistent, Premium Performance

Inferior thermal ribbons can lead to failed label performance, damaged printheads, lost productivity and ultimately reduced profits. Avoid it. With Zebra, you’re guaranteed premium print quality and performance consistency every time. How? Our supplies R&D team performs stringent quality tests to ensure our ribbons consistently deliver the best print quality and durability. What’s your result? Prolonged printhead life, decreased total cost of ownership and exceptional scanning performance.

Rigorously Tested to Perform

We take quality seriously. Our supplies R&D team performs stringent print quality, durability and printhead life tests after printing on a wide range of material types, at various speeds within Zebra printers. So, you can rely on maximum printer up-time and scannable labels.

Find Your Match

Choose from wax, wax/resin and resin formulations to meet the durability demands of your application when ideally matched to our thermal transfer materials. They are available for all of Zebra’s industrial and desktop printers. And, Zebra’s wax/resin and resin ribbons are UL certified.

Zero Substitutions

At Zebra, we never substitute ribbons. So, you know you’ll receive the same formulation every time you order. This means consistent and reliable print quality and durability, eliminating potential interruptions to your operations.

 

Need Bigger Labels? Print Them with Zebra’s 220Xi4 Industrial Label Printer

But what if your label printing requirements run a little bigger? What if you need a full 8.5-inch print width or a printer than can handle a roll of 8-inch-wide labels for chemical drums, large-format product identification or other applications where the typical 4- or 6-inch label just isn’t large enough?

That’s where Zebra’s 220Xi4 Industrial Label Printer shines.

The 220Xi4 offers crisp, high-resolution thermal-transfer or direct-thermal printing that can accommodate 8-inch labels for a variety of industry-compliant large-format labeling requirements.

Most importantly, the 220Xi4 is all-Zebra right to the core. Like every other Zebra Industrial Printer, it is built to support mission-critical labeling requirements day after day and year after year under the toughest conditions. The 220Xi4 features rugged, all-metal construction. This includes a durable metal printhead mechanism that’s engineered to deliver outstanding print quality over the long haul, reducing or eliminating downtime associated with other printers that require more frequent printhead replacement.

All of the 220Xi4 printer’s operating mechanisms are designed to block out dust and dirt that are the bane of lesser printers, but all-to-common in the industrial environments for which the 220Xi4 is designed. It even features a clear bi-fold media door that gives you a clear view of remaining labels while allowing for a narrower opening radius that makes it a better fit for tight spaces.

Easy to Integrate

Like every Zebra printer, the 220Xi4 large-format label printer is designed to be easy to integrate into your operations, requiring minimal IT support. In addition to heavy-duty construction that reduces downtime, it ships with a variety of ZebraLinkâ„¢ software tools that make it a snap to configure, use and maintain, including:

  • Zebra Setup Utilities — A Windows application that makes it quick and easy to set up and configure the printer right out of the box.
  • ZebraDesigner and ZebraDesigner Pro — Simple Windows WYSIWYG label design applications with basic and advanced features for virtually any label application.
  • ZebraNetâ„¢ Bridge Enterprise — Centrally manage Zebra printers from a single PC screen anywhere on your global network.
  • ZebraNet Utilities — Provides enhanced printing, conversion and administration capabilities; message management; and more.

Other features that streamline integration include a large, easy-to-read front panel that simplifies setup, a variety of network connectivity options, and built-in support for a wide range of barcode symbology’s.

The220Xi4 even offers a wireless connectivity option that frees users up from the expenses and headaches of running new wired connections to each installation.

If your label printing requirements run a little bigger than the usual shipping labels, contact Tri-State Business Systems to learn more about Zebra’s 220Xi4 8-inch Industrial Label Printer.