Even after the terrible experience I’ve had with my Zebra printer order, I ended up working a deal with Dell for 9 more Zebra printers. I received my shipment of 9 Zebra LP2844 thermal label printers yesterday, and this time they have regular USB, parallel and serial interfaces, as well as a power jack. I shouldn’t be excited about that, but after this experience, I am.
It turns out the model I originally received required a $270 powered USB hub per printer and was for some proprietary application. I’m really disappointed in Zebra because their communication with Dell was terrible and it took over 2 months to get this right. At least now we’ve got printers, and I was able to get them at a great price. Plus I got 9 USB cables and a case of labels thrown in. It doesn’t make up for 2 months of waiting and frustration, but it helps.
As long as nothing goes wrong, I’m done posting about Zebra printers.
Brett,
Did you ever get the Zebra LP2844 printers working via the USB connection? Being the neighborhood “geek”, a friend came to me who is having problems printing via USB with Fellowship One Checkin. They have 2 other checkin stations that print to older model LP2844’s using Parallel ports.
Supposedly, Fellowship One wasn’t much help on the phone for him.
Let me know your experience if you would…
Regards,
Greg
Once I got the correct printers, I never had a single problem printing. We’re using 13 of them throughout our campus every week and they’ve worked flawlessly for us for months.
Can Windows print to your friend’s printers, or is it just a problem with F1? First make sure Windows can communicate with the printer, and get the latest drivers from Zebra’s website. I’m disappointed to hear F1’s support hasn’t been too helpful. They’re supposed to be known for their support.
Yep. Windows can do a test print page to the device. The latest drivers from Zebra are installed.
I think I’ll have to go visit him personally and make a call to F1 on his behalf while I’m there.
Thanks for the reply on a really old message!