0985:00a3 — A3/200 or A3/300 Label Printer

cab Produkttechnik GmbH & Co KG

Vendor ID: 0985
Product ID: 00a3
Combined: 0985:00a3
Decimal: 2437:163

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a A3/200 or A3/300 Label Printer manufactured by cab Produkttechnik GmbH & Co KG. The vendor ID 0985 is registered to cab Produkttechnik GmbH & Co KG with the USB Implementers Forum, and 00a3 is the product ID that cab Produkttechnik GmbH & Co KG assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0985:00a3 cab Produkttechnik GmbH & Co KG A3/200 or A3/300 Label Printer.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0985:00a3 cab Produkttechnik GmbH & Co KG A3/200 or A3/300 Label Printer

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0985:00a3, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0985:00a3. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0985, idProduct=00a3.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_0985&PID_00A3
USB\VID_0985&PID_00A3&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0985&PID_00A3"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    A3/200 or A3/300 Label Printer:
      Product ID: 0x00a3
      Vendor ID: 0x0985  (cab Produkttechnik GmbH & Co KG)

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

0985  cab Produkttechnik GmbH & Co KG
	00a3  A3/200 or A3/300 Label Printer