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How toprint labels in portrait on Zebra 2844 thermal printer

Nov 21, 2010 3:39AM PST

My Paypal labels are printing across the middle of the label. I don't see how to change the orientation to portrait. All I see under orientation is normal or invert 180 degrees. Any help would be appreciated. I am using Windows 7.

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It may not be a feature of this driver.
Nov 21, 2010 3:43AM PST
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2844 printer
Nov 21, 2010 5:45AM PST

I got the driver and setup utility from the person I purchased the printer from. It seems a bit primitive.

The pdf file doesn't show the same model printer. This is a 2844.

Thanks for your help so far.

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2 Labels
Nov 21, 2010 6:20AM PST

OK. So I got it to print the correct way changing the setting to Landscape (?). Now the problem is that Ebat is printing a header line and footer line so it's printing over 2 labels.

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Link please
Nov 21, 2010 6:53AM PST

Your posts share no links to the product manual and while I could suggest removing the header and footer from the printing it seems you are new to printer configuration and selecting what paper type and more.

Links to your printer's PDF and screen shots for others to see what you are working with will help.
Bob

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Check config
Nov 21, 2010 11:39PM PST

While the s/w you've received when the printer was brought should be the right one. Understand some vendors(google Zebra) make s/w compatible to a model series, so it will work work with various models to include yours. Just be sure what you have. In most just goto the maker's support website and locate the model# and get the latest release.

Since you already found the "portriat" feature, that would be the 180deg. setting, correct? Because you now print header and footer, then check the page setting, to eliminate that. If maybe under the vendor's s/w or under the "properties" of the ptr. selected as "default" under the "devices and printers" area of win7. Check that out and reset then save/apply before exiting.

tada -----Willy Happy