Tabletop or Desktop, What is the Difference?
By: POSGuys - 1/9/2014

We’ve received several new questions from customers that we wanted to highlight here in the AP blog. One question was whether or not you can use tabletop media with a desktop printer. Here’s a link to our short video with Travis providing the answer: 
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Transcript:
Hi, this is Travis from POSGuys.com. Got a question from a customer. They asked, can you use tabletop media with a desktop printer? The desktop printers only support the half-inch core, the label they want is only available in the four-inch core. One trick that we use is we have a little hanger. You can hang the bigger cored tabletop media on it. And then on the back of your printer is a little gap there. And you can feed the labels through that gap. And then you can just adjust your hanger for the media size. Then you have it set up like so. That's how you can use the tabletop media with the desktop printer. This is Travis from POSGuys, to ask more questions please email us at POSGuys.com.
Another similar question we received is, “what is the difference between tabletop media and desktop media?” Travis discusses the differences:
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Transcript:
Hi, this is Travis with Ask POSGuys. A common question we get asked is, "what is the difference between tabletop media and desktop media?" And the big difference is the core that it's hung on. This is a desktop media, and this is a tabletop media. So tabletop general has a bigger core, which will support having more labels per roll, and your price per label is a little lower because it's higher volume. Less media on each roll, but it's the appropriate size media for a desktop printer, like the LP2824 by Zebra. The smaller media clips onto the standard hanger, and pulls through, and it works. If you needed to use the smaller media in a more industrial printer, like the Datamax E-Class Mark 3, then you also can do so because they have adapters that'll adjust down to desktop-media size. So shrink it down, and use the smaller media in the bigger printer, and then of course it also works with industrial media, or tabletop media. If you needed to use an tabletop media with a desktop printer, there is a trick that you can use to accomplish that. On the back of a majority of printers, there is a feed-in slot. With the feed-in slot, you can take media, put it on a hanger, and then feed it in through the back. You're also gonna want to lock the brackets out to full size. So that's kind of a trick you can do if you have to use a media that's larger than your printer supports. However, it's recommended that you stick with the appropriate media for the printer, it tends to work better. Hanging the media, sometimes there's difficulties feeding it in because the rollers aren't strong enough to pull in the heavier media. So, recommended, to use your appropriate media, but if you're stuck in-a-pinch, you can go with a more industrial type of media. For instance, if the label that you need is only available in a tabletop-media size. For more information on the different printers available, the different labels available, or to know what labels to use with your printer, please visit us at <a href="https://posguys.com">www.POSGuys.com</a>.
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