Find information on the Zebra LP 2844 Desktop Printer drivers, software, support, downloads, warranty information and more. LP 2844 Desktop Printer Support. This printer is discontinued. We may offer drivers, firmware, and manuals below for your convenience, as well as online tech support. Download 867 KB OPERATING SYSTEM: Unix & Mac OS. Oct 11, 2014 Thermal 2844 I have it working I installed the UPS Thermal 2844 driver v1.4 via USB. The driver is listed as: 'Zebra EPL2 Label Printer' I have it connected to the MAC and I am able to print to it from the MAC and the virtual machine with Parallels and XP.
As we are trying to streamline our online business, we purchased a label printer with thermal cabiblities to save on ink. Little did we know that it would be a gigantic nightmare. Our first expeirence was with a Brother printer, which turned out to be not compatible with eBay. Decided with the Zebra after reading some great reviews, and it turns out it isn't natively supported by Zebra either. However, I have read of people that are using it successfully.
To install it, I just plugged it in and used the Native Zebra EPL2 drivers that are included with Mavericks OS.
However, now that I'm trying to actually print something with Paypal, I can't get the labels to print correctly. It won't all fit on one label, even if I change the setting to equal the label size of 4 x 6.
I did some research about CUPS, but am unsure if I'm supposed to use it to install ADDITIONAL drivers, or if it's just a way to tweak settings that aren't available in system preferences. I changed the default setting to 4 x 6 within CUPS, but it still doesn't fit on the labels in Paypal.
I've spent days now trying to get printing set up more efficently, and cannot figure this out. It is a huge nightmare.
Any suggestions (is there ANY native supported thermal printer that works with eBay paypal?), should I use Endicia, is that a better option? Should I try installing additional drivers, if so from where? I'm just stumped at this point and in a little over my head.
OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
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I am having some problems with snow leopard and my Zebra LP-2844 label printer. Its a real one not a eltron or anything. It even has a built in jetdirect type networking (print over network) connection in addition to USB.
I had this working fine in Ubuntu 9.10 useing a *.ppd type driver.
I have used couple of different drivers, It prints a test page fine, Mac OS installed it, seems to know what it is, but not in the correct paper size. Can't seem to find any advanced settings. The system settings control panel won't allow me to even add a different paper size, let alone change label speed or gap space between labels? (none of the settings usually available for a nice thermal label printer are there).
pardon my spelling, and I hope this is not viewed as a rant, I just find this frustrating and have not found out much of anything searching the internet. Since I went ahead and started migrating from my Ubuntu desktop machine over to a macbook pro A1278 I didn't expect this sort of problem.
Anyone with any ideas? let me know, any advice would be appreciated of course.
I can do a dual boot with Ubuntu and OSX but seems silly to me to spend money on this laptop only to go to the trouble of installing and useing a free operating system to get my shipping needs met.
Is this a good question?
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We actually have a few of these in the office, but we run them from Windows machines. I'll ask around to see if anyone has tried running them on a Mac.
helpful guide, thank you, however it does not solve my problem. I wasn't specifc enough.
There is no native support within the system preferences for printing to adjust paper handling size, feed margins etc.
Features needed to control this type of printer. Most operating systems, have this support built in, so when printing shipping labels directly from online java based scripts etc.........it still doesn't work. Not without paying for some type of special program or something. So I stopped looking.
I am just going to keep using the existing system I was using, al thou it has it's problems, which I hope to resolve soon, for the type of work I am doing it seems to work the best for now.
You can print to the LP2844 using OSX with full control over the printer, at full speed and with no fuziness but you need to purchase a commercial driver.
On the LP2844 you may need to run it with a usb parallel adaptor from Sabrent as the built in USB port is a bit unreliable.
The details are here.
Hope this helps.