Well, the extremely popular Zebra Z4M was the benchmark for many an industrial label printer. Still a performer in warehouses around the world today the Z4M remains a popular choice of printer. With this in mind, when Zebra decided to discontinue the Z4M its successor had a hard job to follow.

The status light on your Zebra desktop printer is located around the edge of the feed button and indicates the health of the printer.

This guide will help you get to grips with printer calibration used to obtain consistent positioning of the label and the print. Calibration will also help to alleviate these issues: Print position is drifting up and down; Print is drifting side to side; Labels stopping in random locations; Prints, then skips a label

So you are printing your labels but you’re not happy with the quality of print you are getting, it is faded, poor or uneven across the label. There are a few options that you can try that will solve most print quality problems.

The main reason for getting a blank line or lines appearing down the print of your label is that you have a pixel down on your print head.

Easy step by step guide to setting up a label using Zebra designer

Page mode uses EPL2 commands, you will require page mode if you want to print your labels through a Windows driver, or Windows software such as Zebra Designer.

So, you have decided to sell on Amazon and need to barcode your products in order to meet barcode requirements, what do you need to do? What are the requirements? “It is requirement for all products that are ordered for Amazon.co.uk to have a scannable barcode label on the outside of the product. On items […]

So, you need to barcode your products going into supermarkets and shops, what you need to produce are EAN barcodes. The following is a quick guide on how to barcode your products for supermarkets. Step 1: Register with GS1 You need to register with GS1 who control the company code numbers for EAN barcodes, they […]

An EAN (European Article Number) barcode is a specific type of barcode that has been developed for use in shops and supermarkets.