I have a Dymo 4XL Label Printer and absolutely love it. 10 years and its still going strong. BUT… more and more I’m finding I need to print customer labels on the go. So I set out on a mission to find a printer that worked wirelessly and came across this gem.
My initial impressions:
1 – fast shipping. I ordered and received this and labels in the same day. Perfect.
2 – easy. the instructions are clear and I was up and printing labels in less than 10 minutes
3 – print quality. My Dymo produces crisp and clear labels. It also cost me over $400. For $100 this does pretty good. On a scale of 1 to 10 for print quality, I’d give it a 6 or 7. It’s not crisp, but it gets the job done. I print UPS and USPS labels directly from my Shopify store and both print well. I have not had to deal with the other feature where you import a file and crop it and print it. Reading the other reviews, that feature does not seem to work well. Hopefully that won’t be a bridge I have to cross.
How it Works:
It’s not true wireless or bluetooth printing. You have to download an app (albeit a very basic one). When you go into Shopify and tell it you want to print a label, it opens open the “file sharing” dialog (I have an iPhone). It then gives you options to send the file to the printer app, or airdrop, send to email, etc. You pick the printer app which then opens that app. From there you have to choose 4 x 6 labels, and then review the printer settings. Then you click print and it goes.
Ideally, I’d like to be able to choose the printer from within the shopify app like a normal person, but the extra steps go quick. To make it go a few seconds faster, I adjusted the settings on my phone to show the printer app among my top 4 choices for printing so I don’t have to keep hunting and scrolling for it.
So far so good. My other choice was a Brother QL1110. It’s out of stock just about everywhere and those that do have it in stock are charging twice the normal listed price ($400) ugh. I’ll update my review if this little guy fails me, but fingers crossed, I won’t have to.
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