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Gator08041971 • Volunteer Community Mentor 2024
@laststopgeneralstore is correct. Any printer will work with any site. You either don't have the setup correct or didn't install the driver, for the printer. It is most likely a software set up issue somewhere along the line. There is no such thing as certain printers working only with certain websites.
Couple of tips.
Make sure you set the size of the label for 4x6 before you buy the label. Once purchased, you cannot change the way it prints it, without tinkering, as I found out.
But now that its set for 4x6, they all print perfectly. You may have to find options on whatever printer you end up with to adjust it sometimes. I had to slow the print speed down and darken it to get it to look good. I'm using a renewed cheap printer from Amazon that cost me like 40 bucks with a roll of 500 labels for less than 20. You can get the fan fold ones work with it too.
@slippinjimmy wrote:Over the years here on eBay the Zebra brand has always come up as the best option for reliability. I'm not sure If that is true but my hand me down Zebra 2844 must be close to 20 years old and still functions perfectly.
They are expensive relative to others, used ones can be found on eBay. I bought mine from an eBay seller locally who had bought it used on eBay.
I've owned two Zebra printers over the past 25 or so years. I first heard about Zebra from some of my corporate clients -- their Zebra printers were used for something like 10K labels per day, so they had to be reliable and fast. The desktop Zebra printers (2844 being the most common) cost a lot less than the commercial models, and they use smaller rolls (or fanfold via feed-thru from the back). Buying used from a reseller with a history of good sales is the best way to get these printers.
My first Zebra did not die - I had to replace it with one that had a USB connection when I upgraded to a computer that didn't have a parallel or serial port! My 'old' one was resold, on eBay, and the buyer has been quite happy with it, or so they claimed when contacting me about a year ago about purchasing another to make multi-user processing easier. That was an unexpected contact, to say the least!
Love my Zebra for 4x6 thermals, and love my Seiko and Dymo for the smaller inventory labels and envelope address labels (the kind you get on mass mailings where hand-written addressing takes too long).
-Bob.
