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Warranty | 3 Months Ended
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Apr. 04, 2015
Guarantees [Abstract] |
Warranty | Note 12 – Warranty In general, Zebra provides warranty coverage of one year on mobile computing products and WLAN products. Advanced data capture products are warranted from 1-5 years, depending on the product. Printers are warranted for one year against defects in material and workmanship. Thermal printheads are warranted for six months and batteries are warranted for one year. Battery based products, such as location tags, are covered by a 90-day warranty. A provision for warranty expense is recorded at the time of sale and is adjusted quarterly based on historical warranty experience. The following table is a summary of Zebra’s accrued warranty obligation (in thousands):
|  | Three Months Ended |
|  | April 4, 2015 |  |  | March 29, 2014 |
Balance at the beginning of period |  | $ | 24,666 |  |  | $ | 4,125 |
Warranty expense |  |  | 8,652 |  |  |  | 1,510 |
Warranty payments |  |  | (6,405 | ) |  |  | (1,673 | )
Balance at the end of period |  | $ | 26,913 |  |  | $ | 3,962 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for standard and extended product warranties and other product guarantee contracts, including a tabular reconciliation of the changes in the guarantor's aggregate product warranty liability for the reporting period. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 460 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 8 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6398077&loc=d3e12565-110249 + Details
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