hi and welcome back to another amazon seller video i am out here in phoenix arizona
but in reality i'm actually in nevada getting on a houseboat to take a much needed vacation
i haven't taken a break or a vacation since january of 2019 and if you know me you know
that i like to vacation annually so it's been really hard and i would love to say that
it's because of covid but it's not actually it's just because i've been working so hard
last year my youtube like kind of started getting bigger and i was helping more sellers on a larger
scale making the content that you guys wanted to know making the guides that you needed making the
new beginner fba selling course so it's been a lot of work like 12 16 hour days seven days a week so
i am super excited to take a little break but don't worry i'm not taking a break from youtube
i'm actually filming a bunch of videos in the next two days to have content for you while i'm
on vacation so i will still be around commenting on youtube and all that but just taking you know
a work break kind of so if you're new to my channel i apologize that is the longest intro
that has nothing to do with the video that i've ever done but my name is nikki kirk and today
i am setting up and using a rolo printer for the first time so pretty much since i
started selling almost four years ago i've heard about people talking about the dymo printers and
then the rolo printer kind of came on the scene or i just started hearing about it either way
and then in february i did a giveaway where i just asked on instagram doing stories like what's a
need that you have that money actually can buy i was really lucky that i got to help people
with car payments buying a new baby stroller one teacher needed books this was in february so it
was black history month so she needed books for her first or second grade class i can't remember
so i was able to give her money to buy books and they sent me a bunch of cards which i'm gonna do
a video on because they are so stinking cute and i need to send it to them so they can watch it it'll
probably be summer by then but anyways it was just too cute but a lot of people also wanted
a rolo printer and i was like okay well i don't use a rolo printer for years i have been using
first an inkjet and then this little laser printer so that's what i used forever and up
until today i still use it when people kept asking about a rollo i did another giveaway on youtube
just for straight rolos so that giveaway i gave away five rollers on that time and i thought
you know what let me just see what all the fuss is about and get a rollo printer side note i'm taking
a break from giveaways for may but i'll be back in june with more giveaways on youtube and instagram
on friday so stay tuned for that but now i got my very own roller printer and i'm gonna set it
up today i've got a shipment going and so i'm just gonna unbox it and see what all the fuss is about
so here it is i got it off amazon of course i'm gonna link everything that i bought below
as always you can get all my supplies that i use through amazon the thing that i've heard and i
know is true because people do it is that if you actually set up a free ups account you can get all
the labels for free i just never have done that part yet so i went ahead and just bought labels
on amazon so i have the rolo 4x6 shipping labels so this should be all my shipping labels to amazon
fba as well as fbm orders i believe and then you know i love spartan industrial so they had
labels for it and because i love their polybags i just thought i'd support them some more and
get their labels so this is all the stuff now let me start opening it oh i also got
this is something that i guess you put in the back of it and it like
rolls the labels or holds it or something i don't know if you already use a roller
and you're watching this you're probably dying right now but let me just explain what a rolo
printer is because i forgot that part it's a thermal printer so it doesn't take any ink
it just uses heat and the special labels to you know make the print that needs to be on the label
on there so that's what it is like i said i used to use an inkjet printer just a free
printer that i already had so i used that then i finally got a laser because i got tired of
buying so much ink all the time and now i have this one so this will be my third printer in
four years okay so let's get rid of the old printer and start the unboxing of the do one
so this is telling you to call them which i have actually heard that if you call them if
you have any kind of problems that they're really helpful so i mean i can just google
the phone number so i'm gonna throw this away but just wanted to point that out
and they also have something about discounts on ups or usps so now i have something that's telling
me about printing the labels but i did google and there's a chrome extension for chrome browser
which actually works on amazon and so when you go to print the labels which we'll get to in a second
it has a new button next to it that wasn't there before so normally you know it says 30 up and you
hit print labels now it has a robo printer button so we'll see how that goes alcohol cleaning wipes
i don't know what that's for should probably find out
power cable and the printer
definitely smaller than my other princess which is nice especially living in an rv
this is probably to hardwire into my laptop oh hey free labels that's cool oh i guess
you have this is called folding and then there's also round rolls i'm pretty sure based on the box
that i got more folding labels but that's cool to know that it comes with some shipping labels
so if you ever need to clean the printer head that's where you would
use the alcohol wipes it says not to use water so that's probably why they
give them to you i'm just supposed to pull this out i guess am i ruining it
okay so really quickly to use the chrome extension for amazon printing labels you have to
have a free rolo account so all you do is just sign up for it
all it's asking for is your email first name last name phone number and there you go so
you just set up your account and then now your chrome access will work and you have to log in
i didn't save my password so i had to go through that whole forgot password so save your password
so here's a step i missed already because i'm so used to using wifi printers i actually
do have to connect it to my laptop so i'm going to connect it and then it should work
now i need to install a driver okay okay so now that i plugged it into the laptop
and i went and downloaded the driver from rolo.com driver then it says you select
thermal printer from the use drop down menu i'm selecting the software
now search for roller printer okay so i didn't fully install it so here we go
there it is okay we're getting there
okay so now i'm going to open up the label holder let's see what that's about
so the one i got i think it was 20 and it actually will do both flat fold or rolled i think my
fn skew labels are rolled and then the other ones are flat so i know people actually get
two roller printers one for both because i will have to be changing
out when i'm printing the different things i mean the rolo printer in general already
seems like a luxury so who knows maybe i'll get to the point where i have to
i also don't think you need this i've heard people have just like a little
basket in the back that they will keep the rolled so that it just holds it in place
and then the fold can just be placed behind it is my understanding and it'll just pick it up and go
tada this is the rolo 4x6 500 labels which is a lot of labels i had to get so i think this
was a double pack when i opened it i'll see i think there's two rolls because it was only a
thousand a roll and if every shipment i do is like 300 that's like three shipments so i feel
like i'm gonna go through those really quickly these are the ones you can get for free from ups
if you set up a free ups account actually if you have a house and you don't move around like me
then you can also have ups come and pick up your packages i think you schedule it like once a week
or something i'm not 100 because i don't do it but that is another perk of a ups account
they seem small
so it says it's 10 rolls of the 1300 labels for
oh my god did i get the wrong ones these seem really small these are two by one we'll see
okay slide the button to open the cover that would be this the first thing you turn it off
okay now so it has these little purple guides all right so now i put the label in
use that as a gun steal all these cables
i will say this so far if i have to have it plugged into my laptop every time
it's gonna be really annoying turn it back on and wait five seconds
press and hold the feeder button until you hear a beep so i guess this dot is the feeder button
apparently now it's ready to go it knows what labels i have
okay so now back to the amazon page from what i've been told from becky thank you becky for the heads
up sometimes your labels will print landscape is their portrait or the other way around not 100
but if they're printing the wrong way there's a fix and there's a guy on youtube who has it
i don't know anything more but probably i will find it and i'll link it below in this video so if
there's ever something wrong where it's printing the wrong way you can either call rolo or head
to youtube and figure it out so now back on my amazon page so once you have the chrome extension
and you're logged in you can hit here roll the labels and then it will download them and convert
them so that it's all going to print on one long sheet instead of the 30 up like it normally does
these look so small i'm a little scared they're not gonna work but let's try it out
so clearly i bought the wrong size that or i'm gonna do some more research and
figure out what the problem was because half the barcode is cut off
so even though rollo says a two by one will work for fn skus since they say it dies i'm assuming
there's a way to fix it but right now i mean the printing of it was easy enough and it won't smudge
like my laser and inkjet do because it's thermal printed so i mean once i got it set up it was easy
but i'm gonna do a little more research turn the ac on and see if i can figure it out
okay so i think i figured it out so i didn't actually select over here when you print your
labels it has these different options right and i've always just used the 30 up because that's
what the regular us letter is so i did some research and realized that at two inches is
50 millimeters so technically my labels are 50 by 25 that's not an option so i just picked the
closest one and now since i've changed that when i hit roll labels it's gonna pop up
hopefully one that fits my labels i should have probably planned this one out a little
more but here we go real time figuring it out okay so these look smaller now let's see
it's still printing the bad ones
i don't know if i know how to fix that so i just want to put some 224 bad ones
all right so those are all the garbage ones
or we'll make confetti ah here comes mine oh they look they fit
they fit on there so it does really work now they worked so now i can get to labeling my
products and continue on with the shipment so i will see you back here when i'm ready
to have my shipping labels printed and we will see how hard it is to change this out
so you have to make sure on your printing labels if you're using the two by one then it's the last
one on there which is 44 up but definitely just look all i did was google what is two inches
in millimeters and then i just picked the one closest to that so whatever labels you end up
getting just double check that way and yeah so now i'm gonna head off turn the ac back on and label
okay so i got everything boxed up twice do you ever have a shipment that seems like it should
be easy and then something happens and it's like so much longer than it should have been
i ended up i couldn't send one of the items in which of course when i went and like took it
off the shipments which i had already boxed up how they wanted it then it messed everything up and it
makes it so like everything's going to different warehouses decided to open some of the boxes redo
it all and repackage them to the new shipments but i did it so using these labels the fnsku labels on
these new rollo printers was actually really cool because i realized on my old labels which were
either laser or inkjet i could never just like push it because it would smear the label and now
i could just like push it on there nicer so random but that was nice and so something to get used to
so now i'm going to switch out the labels it should be as easy as opening it and then
just pulling that thing out i'm just going to use the free labels they sent me because i only have
i think five boxes so these will be just enough so let me switch out the labels
so back here on my amazon shipping screen again it has the extension so i'm saying i'm
shipping it today which is may 5th so we're going to hit rollo labels i'm going to have
to do the printer so this is what i was talking about as far as landscape and portrait so it's
the wrong way so i need to have it the other way so oh i see i need you to select this thermal
printing paper oh we're getting there i probably should have watched the youtube on how to do this
welcome to what it's like to be me oh that looks better although if i have to keep doing
that printer size every time that's gonna be real annoying but here let's give it a shot oh
man this video took a turn you guys okay this is probably why they give you the tester labels okay
what is happening i don't even know how to make it stop
it just keeps printing one square of the label
and then nothing i'm just going to print as it is and see what that does
okay
and we're gonna pause while i figure out what's going on so i got it to work and i'm
not entirely sure how but i used every single one of those labels that came with it because it kept
printing everything weird and it says online you could cancel the print job by like turning it on
and off but that didn't work i tried it multiple times so i ended up unplugging it from the printer
or unplugging it from the computer turning it off and like waiting a while while i figured out
everything else and then that finally cleared it so now i've got it here's what i think i did
i'm gonna see if i can replicate it so i am still having to hit that special like preview to see it
as a 4x6 because it has all these weird print number pages but i was able to just print it
from here and then you can see it i made sure to choose 4x6 and it worked and this time it didn't
skip a label the first time it had a label skip in between and how can i just print one label so
i'm going to print the rest of my box labels and i'm kind of over the shipment
i don't even know how great this video was or if it's worth watching but i'm gonna put it out there
anyways the jury's out on the rollo because it seems like a lot of work i'm sure once i get it
handled it will be fine but you know who wants to learn something after packing up a huge shipment
in phoenix where it's 90 degrees outside so
thank you guys so much for watching let me know if you liked this video if you want
to see more of me just attempting random stuff or if there's something you want to watch me attempt
i don't really know but thank you guys so much for watching i hope to be out there drinking
on a boat somewhere right now i will see you here sunday for another new amazon selling video thanks
you