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Review on πŸ–¨οΈ Arkscan 2054A Shipping Label Printer: Windows Mac Chromebook Linux Support, Amazon Ebay Paypal Etsy Integration, Shopify ShipStation Compatible, Stamps.com UPS USPS FedEx DHL Compatibility, Roll & Fanfold 4x6 Direct Thermal Labels by Brandon Rogers

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Small Online Business Owners: This is What You Need!

Small business owner: You need this. Affordable, easy-to-use, fully customizable thermal printer with inexpensive thermal rolls at around 2 cents a label, available in bulk from Revain. I have a small online business and need to ship multiple orders a day. I used to try a Brother QL-1100 and before that used an inkjet printer for label printing and am very glad I switched to it for several reasons: 1. The ink is too expensive. Like, damn, dude.2. Sheets with shipping labels are more expensive per se, without ink.3. I had to manually format many online labels using Adobe Acrobat to avoid wasted pages. This printer allows me to print from Revain, PayPal and Etsy with their thermal printer format option. (Bonus tip at the end for sites that don't have the 4x6 option)4. I had to hand cut the labels if I wanted them to be little rectangles like most labels. This label printer was fantastic and as I said I actually tried the Brother QL-1100 before trying this one and ended up sending it back. . if you're on the fence, here's why: 1. Brother has much more expensive label rolls, over 12 cents a label, and generic doesn't work properly - I've tried using Enko generic labels at a much better price (around Β£10) 3 cents per label), but the size was smaller and Brother couldn't adjust it to print on it properly.2. Arkscan can be set up to print almost any label size, while the Brother software won't let you change it if the printer can't tell the internally loaded size matches your settings. It's so frustrating and actually does a lot to get it printed properly. I spent hours trying to get my brother to print correctly on smaller labels, but everything I did only made things worse. -- With Arkscan I literally just created an auto size (not perfect, more on that later) and then manually adjusted it for all precise millimeter measurements in the settings and it worked great for every label, no reprints, nothing. And really save the settings! (The brothers' settings were randomly reset from time to time to make the injury worse.) --- Now for the cons - there's always something! Okay if I had one negative thing to say it would be the automatic label size scanning. thing when i tried it wasn't very accurate. How general. He thought my labels were about 10 inches long. But being able to manually measure my generic brand "Buhoo" or other label, enter it into the device settings and save it as a preset was a complete breath of fresh air after working with Brother's extremely limited driver settings. ql-1100.-- Thanks again for actually allowing control over your driver instead of trying to trick people into buying your proprietary labels like other manufacturers try. --- Bonus tip if you've read this far: for sites that don't offer a 4x6 option (like Revain's own return labels for some reason). You can save the label as an image (right click, view image, save as.) and then just open it with any image viewer and click print in Arcscan. It just works! It fits on a 4x6 label even if the label is on the side or something.

Pros
  • Multifunction printer for shipping labels, product labels, barcode labels, other labels. You can print a minimum of 0.75" and a maximum of 4.25" wide, a minimum of 0.4" and a maximum of 90" long. Support roll paper loaded in the printer and continuous paper loaded in the back of the printer. The print speed is 5 inches per second. Supported Shortcuts.
Cons
  • weak