Tech Tips Archive

Zebra’s Network Connection Manager For A Wireless Network

One of our customers is installing a private cellular network to supplement their Wi-Fi in challenging environments. Discover how Zebra StageNow's Network Connection Manager can seamlessly prioritize networks for your Zebra mobile devices!

Zebra Printer Setup App on Mobile Devices

The Zebra Setup Utility App can manage both mobile and desktop printers with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi and Link-OS. Discover how this app can revolutionize your printer management system.

Is Your Label Printer a Security Risk?

Many customers are finding label printers with Telnet enabled as a security vulnerability during IT Security Audits. If this applies to you, read on to find out what you can do to avoid unencrypted data risks and boost operational efficiency!

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Pull the Battery for 30 Minutes

This section should be re-titled "Thinking Outside the Box". Because with all our experience in tech services we're always quick to cancel out the usual problems, leaving room for our engineers to problem solve quirky issues. Having issues with your mobile computer and tried everything? Try this!

Using RFID Tags in Low Temperatures

No, it's not THAT cold yet, unless of course your warehouse or storage facility is a cryogenic environment. Because RFID technology is still in its infancy among consumers, we're constantly testing the ways in which we can utilize this tech. Read on to see how RFID Tags "weathered" in these freezing climates!

Matching Thermal Ribbon to Label Stock

Not so fast. Yes, the process of printing seems easy going once you setup your printer, load the ribbon, and load the labels. But what if we told you it can be more complicated than that. That's where EMP can advise you on which ribbons match with certain label stocks. Read on to save you the trouble of printing a bad batch of labels!

Default Your Label Printer Settings

Sometimes you can go so far down a rabbit hole configuring your printer to get it the way you need it for certain label jobs. However, what if you need your settings to be closer to when you first purchased your Zebra Label Printer? Check out this month's Tech Tip on how to revert your printer back to factory settings.

Using the Countdown Feature on Zebra Printer

Do you find yourself printing a large batch of labels to then wander off and accomplish another task? Sometimes it's nice to know where you are in your printing progress when you're printing thousands of labels and don't have time to wait around or count them. Check out how you can adjust printer display settings to allow for a countdown progress display.

Using BarTender to Send Emails

There's a reason we chose Seagull Scientific's BarTender as our preferred labeling software. It offers so many different tools for various types of customers and environments. We found a best use case for this particular feature that will save you an extra step. See how to set up and start sending e-mails through BarTender software.

Always Get a Display on your Label Printer

Sometimes a few extra dollars will save you time and money in the long run. That can be said for most purchases. You get what you pay for. That rule applies to printers as well. See why it might be more efficient and hassle free to have a display on your label printer.

How to Encode Your RFID Tags

You're ready to apply your newly purchased RFID tags to your inventory, but you don't know what kind of data needs to be uploaded into the minimal amount of space within a tag. Sound familiar? In this article we cover what really matters when it comes to the data inside an RFID Tag.