Itari Thermal Label Printer, 4x6 Shipping Label Printer for Shipping Packages & Small Business, Desktop Label Printer

This is an awesome easy to use thermal printer! I have a Mac computer and I was up and running in minutes. Super easy directions, but make sure you follow them exactly. You have to do a test print or it wont work. The thermal printer hold a huge roll of labels, so you dont have to change very often. The printer is big and really nice. I have had issues with other printers printing clearly on a Mac. Not with this thermal printer, it prints crystal clear and fast. Super fast delivery and awesome awesome value!!!

Nice little printer. Works well but couldnt connect it to my phone. Thermal printer, works well and prints quickly. Great for smaller spaces. Directions are simple enough and sets up quickly. Custom services are pretty helpful, responded quickly. Its a good little printer, priced very competitively and on the lower end of similar Thermal printers price wise, but isnt lacking in ease of use, customer service and good quality results. Id highly recommend this.

Easy to use, seems good print quality good for small business.

Bought this to use as a less expensive option to make UPS labels however, using the general UPS.com shipping site, this comparative model the manufacturer says is compatible is out of date and no long supported. Meaning, you can’t direct print from their website to the printer. It’s a little longer process to just generally print but, if you adjust the print settings to “no margins / scale to 100” it prints out fine.

I love everything about this label printer because it does exactly what it’s needing to do. Perfect for small businesses that’s just starting out.

Keeping in mind that different products will have their own unique software and process, I will say while the installation is relatively straightforward, we ran into a few bumps in the road when used on a mac (those problems did not exist with a PC). The material quality and “compactness” of this is great because everything is together, and it can hold a decently sized roll inside. The overall size is a bit bulkier than I expected, but it’s still smaller than one I have that requires a separate stand to hold the labels. The printed manual has quite a bit of information to help you get started, but doesn’t address a lot of common troubleshooting issues. Also, I don’t know if this is specific to my model, but the manual indicated holding the feed button for a few blinks would detect the gaps - this is not accurate, it will just keep spitting paper out and requires in-app fine-tuning. Also, when you insert your first sticker, it will completely spit out and has to be removed (whereas another I have detects the label and then retracts it for use. As for printing quality, this is where things get rocky. On a Mac, when you use the app to create a custom label you can determine the print quality, however when integrating directly from online stores I found there to be wide gaps of white space and grainy text. The only way I was able to adjust this was by saving it as a PDF, then importing it to the app and adjusting the print settings there. The manual shows how to adjust the quality on a Mac, however even though I have the proper update, the print display did not offer the features pictured. You’ll want to make sure the printing space is “fit to area” and the proper label size is selected or it will print off center. With a PC, it was much easier, but I will say the included paper came in a very limited quantity and wasn’t nearly as good as a third party brand that seemed more compatible with the thermal component of this one.

I cant say why exactly, but I just dont love it like I have loved my Dymos in the past. Part of it is the lack of dedicated rich software, and part of it is that is a bit bigger/heavier duty than the Dymo-- and for many people that wouldnt be a bad thing! I dont have anything particularly bad about this printer other than I dont love it. Maybe thats my bad, and not the printer.

If you like wasting shipping labels this is the printer for you. Any time you print a label it prints and then will give an error. Lift the lid and close it error goes away and it will reprint your label just fine. Ive cleaned it thinking it could be a dirty sensor, no luck. Just get a Dymo.

For the price that they want for this thing it should run like a well oiled machine. Instead its the most problematic piece of crap that Ive ever dealt with. It doesnt detect its OWN labels let alone outside labels. When it finishes printing it doesnt end it with the perforation where you can easily tear the lable off, no, it leaves it in inside the printer which makes you pull it, which then makes the printer think that it is jammed and it errors out. You can temp clear the error by turning it off and on. But as soon as you print again it will error again as you try to get the label out. Going through their process of calibration helps nothing...since it cant seem to detect any label beginning or end. I went through their whole roll of labels trying to make the stupid thing work right. I finally got it to work though I dont know how, it just decided to behave all of a sudden after I pulled it OUT of the garbage can to give it one more try to be really really sure. Oh and on the roll holder I changed the smooth part of the side pieces from facing outward to facing inward...though I dont know why that would help, it was fitting fine the other way and the roll was rolling...shrugs.

To install this printer on my Windows computer all I did was search Itari D520 Thermal Label Printer driver and the first result was what I needed. I installed the driver and because my printer was hooked up and the power was turned on (plastic button on back) it was ready to print right away. I tried to use another, more expensive, printer in the exact same way, the main difference was, this printer printed clear labels, while the other printer was very insufficient and the labels were not as good as the labels this one prints. Basically, because the quality of this printers prints is so high, I cant help but give it five stars. This is the one that actually works.