Hi, Travis from POSGuys.com. We're going to do a supplementary video here, this is for
using the Zip Ship media with the ZT230 from Zebra. Getting this set up is a little bit
more complicated than just putting the labels into the printer. I'm going to walk through
the process. What you're going to have to do is you're going to have to do a manual
calibration, you're also going to have to switch which sensor you're using on the printer.
So the labels load easy enough, they drop into the printer like you'd expect. You load
them under the alignment guide and it comes through the print head, shift out your media
alignment as wide as possible. Close down the printer, and it feeds out a single label.
So that's how it should work if everything is set up correctly, but there's a few steps
to get to this page.
One thing to note is that there are 2 sensors on this printer. So there's the very visible
sensor, this is called your reflective sensor, you can see the red light there. This red
light can move, and what it needs to do is you have to line it up so that it will hit
that notch. You see that little notch right there? That's where the red light needs to
go through. If it goes through the middle, then it won't see the break, and you're going
to have problems calibrating. There's a second sensor on this printer as well. There's a
sensor down here. That's your default sensor, and it's a non-reflective sensor. No matter
what, your media has to run through that sensor. By default it's going to want to use that
sensor and not the reflective sensor. So lets zoom in here. So taking a look at the LCD
screen, this is how you go through the manual process. So first off, you go to the home,
and you're going to change your sensor. So under sensors, there's your sensor type. By
default, it's going to be set to transmissive. That's the back sensor. Change this to be
reflective, the notch sensor just does not work with the transmissive sensor, it has
to be on reflective. Secondly, you're going to want to turn off the auto-calibration.
Under tools, you're going to right arrow over to 2 different settings. One is your head
close action. By default, this is set to calibrate. Turn that off. The auto-calibration just doesn't
work well with this label. The second is a power up action. This also you don't want
to auto-calibrate, so set it to feed. The autocalibration is now off.
Okay, let's walk through the manual calibration process. From the home menu, click home. Go
under sensors. Make sure, once again that it's on reflective. Media/ribbon calibration,
click start. It's going to say "load backing remove ribbon." So what you're going to have
to do is completely remove the label, and here's why. Normally when you take a look at a roll of media, when
it goes through this step what it's going to want to do is have you remove a whole label
and feed it through. What this step does is, it's taking a look at the backing. So this
is slightly transparent, so it's going to calibrate how much light does it need to send
through this material in order to determine whether it is a label or a gap. Well, since
this media does not have a backing, we're going to completely remove it. So we take
the whole media off, close it up, and then we're going to hit pause. And then it calibrates
the sensor with nothing there, because these are once again notches, so it's using air.
Now it's saying reload all. The second step is you load the label into the printer, make
sure that you pull it through all the guides, pull down the print head, and we'll hit pause.
It's going to spit out here several labels, and it's going to identify where it sees the
gap and where the label stop is. Now that it's done, we're going to test it. We're going
to hit the feed button, and it's going to send out hopefully one label. One label came
out, so now it's ready to print.
So that's my supplemental document on setting up the ZT230 with the zip ship media. Steps
to remember: turn your sensor to reflective from transmissive, turn off auto-calibration,
and then go through the manual calibration process. The first step, when it tells you
to remove the backing, you want to have no label loaded at all. And then in the second
step, you load it and you let it run through like normal. Once that's done, as long as
you don't try to re-calibrate, you'll be able to use the zip ship media with Seagull Bartender
or whatever your label software is, or if you have point of sale software that has a packing
slip capability that can use this, its about a 4 and a half by 7 inch label then you're
good to go. For more information on the ZT230, or the zip ship media, please visit us at
POSGuys.com. Thanks!