Zebra Gx420d Drivers For Mac
Posted By admin On 23.03.20I run an eBay business and easily send out 20 items per day, printing out labels using domestic printers takes too much time, along with securely fixing them to the packages in question, so I bought a Zebra GK420d thermal printer to print off the shipping labels (after being assured over the phone that it would be compatible with a OSX (as I use an iMac). The printer does print the labels however they are such low quality that they are essentially unusable. The driver I use for the printing is the generic Zebra ZPL1 driver that gets prompted upon setting up the driver from within CUPS / Mac Printer Setup. I am aware that the printer prints acceptable quality on Windows and I do have a spare Windows machine, however I like my Mac and the Windows machine is old and slow. I was wondering if there existed any 3rd party drivers / different solutions to make the printer print at decent quality from the Mac OR if I could in some way use the Windows machine as a sort of print server, so when I press print on the Mac, it gets sent to the Windows machine and it uses its drivers to print the image to the printer. Any and all help would be appreciated.
I cannot for the life of me get this thing to work on my Mac. I am willing to install Parallels - or even dual boot (which ever is better) to get this to work perfectly. I don't want it to work shoddily. I have heard that doing it through Parallels is finicky and is not 100% stable. Is installing Windows via dual boot the best option? Keeping in mind printing labels with this printer through a web browser (paypal shipping, their Java applet) is the only thing I'll be using Windows for, period - what is the best one to download?
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Or better yet - does anyone know a reliable shipment label printer that works with a Mac (paypal shipping too)? Thanks in advance, help is appreciated. I had the same questions and problem but finally found a solution. I've used a Brother laser printer for years on eBay without problems, but I recently bought a Zebra LP 2844. But while I could set it up and print test pages, actual eBay shipping labels were not printing correctly.
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They would print on two pages, only half or less of the label per page. It was like it was really centered on 4 pages but I was only seeing the left two pages.
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Here is the fix. Go here and follow what the last poster said: First, make sure it is installed on the Mac, then install it in Parallels following exactly what this person said. I did it and it works fine now. I installed the ZebraDesigner Driver on Windows (download from the Zebra website).
Install the printer, set it as your default Windows printer. Then install Bonjour as the thread says, and run Bonjour to set up the Zebra printer to work with both the Mac and Windows. If it doesn't show the Zebra in Bonjour, go into your Mac System Preferences and set the Zebra to Share Printer.
Now run Bonjour. The printer will show up, follow the Bonjour instructions to set it up. I just selected the Zebra driver listed in Bonjour, didn't do what the thread says for finding another downloaded driver, and it works fine. My eBay sample label still prints incorrectly, but the actual shipping label prints perfectly. I did go into the printer preferences, set the Zebra as the default printer on Windows, and created a new Stock to use as the default size label - 4x6, and set the unprintable area to all 0.00, just name that stock 4x6 (or whatever size label you are using) and choose that when you print.
You'll also need to download and install Java Runtime Environment, which the eBay printing page for each label has the link. Java has 4 pop up windows asking if it's OK to print the label and use the selected printer. That happens every time I print a label. Very annoying.
But at least it works. It still prints wrong on the Mac, but in Windows 7 on Parallels it prints correctly. Problem Solved For Zebra Ebay PayPal Shipping On Mac There is a commercial driver for Zebra printers on Mac OSX, works perfectly with the LP2844 and GK420d printer even from courier Websites and Ebay (PayPal) shipping with no fuzziness (pixelation).
This driver prints directly from Web Browsers on OSX, straight to the printer, no other software required and no fuzzy labels. You do have to pay for it but it works every time. You do not need Windows or Parallels to print from OSX. Details are here: Hope this helps people find what they need.
Click to expand.To my knowledge, the only software that properly prints to Zebra thermal printers is Endicia for Mac. I'm guessing it uses a custom driver? ALL other options will output a fuzzy label. The barcodes may be scannable for USPS and UPS, but for FedEx postage the output is too fuzzy and makes the barcode unscannable. Online selling is my full-time business and the workaround is to run Windows using Parallels.
There are many other shortcomings when trying to use a Zebra printer on a Mac, such as the inability to print directly from a web browser using Java. Save yourself the headache and plan on buying Windows + Parallels. Otherwise you'll drive yourself crazy.