Information Systems:Zebra Thermal printers
Each picking station in the warehouse has two Zebra label printers. One label printer is for printing price tickets and the other is for printing shipping labels. Most of the Zebra label printers have model numbers of 2746E or S4M and need to have a firmware level of E50.13.5. At the picking station there is an HP print server with three LPT ports. Port 1 is always used for the invoice laser printer ( Lexmark ), port 2 is always used for the shipping label printer and port 3 is always used for the price ticket printer. This arrangement is determined by the setup of the print queue on the Systemi. The Zebra label printers at the picking stations do not use ink or toner and only need the rolls of thermal labels replaced. The guides to replace a roll of labels are etched on the inside of the metal printer cover. While the Zebra label printers at the picking stations are supported and have their original warranties, the easiest process to replace a broken label printer is to use one of the many spares we have located in the computer cage. The only special setting that needs to be input into the label printers is a "tear off" value of +3. The Lexmark invoice printers will function correctly with all of the factory defaults.