How to Install a Zebra Desktop Printer
By: POSGuys Support - 4/18/2017

To install your USB interface Zebra desktop printer, you need to first install the printer drivers (available under the Downloads tab on the product page). For in-depth instructions on setting up your printer, see our how-to video and transcript below:
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<strong>Transcript:</strong>
<p>Hello, this is Ben from POSGuys, and in this video I'll be showing you how to install the Zebra desktop printer. Specifically the ZD410, but also the same process would apply to earlier series such as the LP or TLP2824 Plus. The first thing you want to do is install the Zebra certified driver. Once it's downloaded, we'll go ahead and run it, it should self-extract. And the driver will automatically launch after you extract it. Go ahead and click the installation process here, install printer, and we're going to go down the list and select our driver, I'll just go ahead and go with the earlier version, which it replaced, which is the 2824 Plus, and we'll go select the printer language, next, and we'll install it on the USB port. It'll also install automatically if your printer is attached and turned on to the computer. 
<p>We'll go to the devices and printers section, which should display our installed printer, and here it is here, the ZDesign driver for the TLP 2824 Plus. So we'll go ahead and hit printer properties here, because what you'll want to do is you'll want to make sure that the label size is set appropriately because if you try and print and the label size is wrong, if your software doesn't override the driver settings, it's going to start printing off and not straight on the label. So you're going to want to go to the advanced tab, printing defaults, and then set the size here, we're going to set the size as 2.25 width and 1.25 height. Go to the Advanced Setup here, you're going to want to make sure you select your media type, we would do direct thermal since we wouldn't be using label ribbon, and and then web sensing, because our labels are separated and don't have black markings on the back. You would hit apply, OK, OK, and then you would be set. 
<p>The TLP and LP 2824 Plus series, along with ZD410, can automatically calibrate when you put the media inside the printer, close the lid on the LP series. The green light will be flashing, if you press the feed button once it will start feeding out a series of labels, and then it will stop on the end tear off point on one of the labels, that means it's calibrated. If you set the label size inside the driver, it should appropriately print. If for some reason it doesn't calibrate correctly, you need to reset the printer by going to the Printer Properties, Preferences, Tools. The next thing you'll want to do is load factory defaults. And then after loading factory defaults, you'll see some activity on the printer, lights will go off or the printer will shut off, and then go Reset printer. Lights should all go out on the printer and then come back on. And you can hit calibrate media and it should be calibrated. 
<p>Now the automatic calibration for the ZD410 is a little bit different. When you have the label media installed, the diamond indicator on the printer which is green should be lit, and while it's lit, go ahead and press and hold the pause and cancel buttons for about two seconds, and then release it, and it should feed out a few labels, and end off on a tear off point, and that's how it automatically calibrates. And the reset process for doing factory defaults in the ZD410 should be similar to the tool commands here in the 2824 Plus series. And you should be set. Thank you for watching.

How to Install a Zebra Desktop Printer By: POSGuys Support - 4/18/2017

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