20 Most Recent Zebra Eltron TLP 2742 Thermal Label Printer Questions & Answers

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try calibrating the printer

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You need to make sure the media and ribbon are installed correctly, and then make sure the printer is calibrated. Once you verify the media is correct, power off the printer and then back on. It should feed a few labels. Then press the button to feed again to make sure it feeds only one. If it does, then the printer is set. Now, when you go to print, if it still acts up, you need to check either the driver settings or the software settings. Label size could be set incorrectly.

Try calibration it may help: TLP 2742 is printing blank labels

This is a calibration issue than can be resolved with this article: TLP 2742 is printing blank labels

Skipping labels is normally a calibration issue or label template size. Solution: TLP 2742 is printing blank labels

A very common issue I encounter weekly with a very simple solution most often. Please read this article. Zebra LP 2742 will not print after replacing roll

This could be caused by a couple of issues:

• Dirty sensor (use compressed air and blow out printer)
• Wrong media (using labels with black bars obscuring the gap and making it non-readable by sensor)
• Wrong label format for size of labels used (make sure label size matches the template size)

Zebra printer no gap detected

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The ribbon size is determined by the media size. You can read the article here: Zebra Eltron TLP 2742 Thermal Label Printer Ribbon Size

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your printer needs to be calibrated and set label lenth in the driver in both printer preference and printer defaults

Skipping every other label is a software template or size format issue. This means your label size in the computer is not set up to match the label size your printing or you have too much text on your label causing it to print out of the bottom margin causing it to skip to the next label.. Very common issue. We have labels that may help alleviate your problem as well Labeldomain com

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