The device holds a lot of promise, and fails to deliver on most of them.
The printer does recognize label perforations, but that’s about it. It does not differentiate to the driver any distinction between label sizes, so you’re going to have to work out in mm the size of the page and the offsets.
As for the drivers themselves, I tried using this with a Mac and Chromebook.
With the Chromebook, the printer would only sometimes respond to a new page command, other times it would not react at all. While there’s an option to get logs, the logs were 4 bytes long and effectively useless. Complicating matters is that since the printer doesn’t clearly communicate it’s sizes, getting Google Docs to recognize it is also a challenge. (Not that it matters, since the printer fails to print.)
On the mac, after several installation attempts, i was able to sort of get it to print something, but it only worked once and then I was back to being unable to print. I’ll also note that the printer loves to spit out empty labels.
Also, the manual is a bit odd. The thermal element is on the top part of the printer, so the label medium needs to be facing up. I’m sure if I spent a few days fiddling with things I could probably get this to do a passable job, but I’m horrified by what sort of instruction tome I’d need to offer family members who want to use it.
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