I bought this printer for it’s advertised wifi capability. I saw some reviews complaining about connectivity issues but I’m very technically adept, I work in information security for a large tech company so I ignored them. I have the unique perspective of running Windows, MacOS, Ubuntu Linux, and iOS. Let’s go into each process.
Windows : Easiest setup, most supported. While the setup is the easiest it’s also somewhat involved for a printer. Their configuration app is archaic and not intuitive.
MacOS : Doesn’t feel as supported as windows. The issue here is the printer configuration is somewhat hidden, selecting paper size or darkness is necessary but there’s no real instruction to do so. I had to watch their setup videos to set something up that should be intuitive and I still had to go digging through menus to find where to set the print darkness.
Linux – Bare minimum support, they walk you though configuring the printer with CUPS, they include a binary to download that requires root to install so you don’t really know what the application is doing, it’s not a shell script so when it can’t find a directory it’s just spits out an error and you have no ability to change directory paths if a file lives elsewhere. Once again had to watch a setup video to get the settings situated and things still weren’t great
iOS – Terrible 4BARCODE application, it doesn’t integrate to your normal printers. You have to send the PDF to 4BARCODE if you want to print it. I can’t just select a printer from the list and the UI is awful, not intuitive, not directed at all.
So after I’ve gone through setting up all my devices I start running through my labels, around the 20 label mark my printer stops printing and has a very fast blinking red light. I boxed it right back up and initiated a return. This process should not be this difficult only to have a faulty machine. Terrible.
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