On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Dave Crozier<[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen, > The Zebra models are fine, we changed from Datamax to Zebra about 4 years > ago because of the differential in cost purchase cost. > > The only thing to be aware of on the Zebra's is NOT to run the label at the > full throughput (about 9" per second) and to trim it down to about 6" per > second. The reason being that the heads just wear out too quickly and the > astronomical cost of the replacement head is nearly as much as the actual > printer new. Check out the spare part costs and make the client aware of > this. > > We have found through painful experience (i.e. financial) that this triples > the effective life of the printer and everyone is happy if they never know > the speed that the printer will really run at! The other thing is to ditch > the native Zebra drivers for the printer and use the "Seagull" drivers > (Google "Seagull Zebra") as the native ones are complete rubbish. There are > lots of options in the driver that can increase the thermal head life/print > quality and these are not present in the native drivers. > > Other than that, they are reliable and good workhorses. We have 15 of them > here at work going 24/7 doing pallet labels which is way more than the usage > that you would be putting them through I guess. --------------------------------------
I am only guessing my usage to be 300,000 per year. That is our average number say my clients. I don't see that as a lot of use compared to other types of applications. Thanks for the tips on drivers and speeds. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer SQL Server DBA Web and Winform Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
