I'm contemplating purchasing a Zebra barcode direct thermal printer for my supplies inventory management, but not sure if I need any special printer drivers. I've not met anyone who's used a barcode printer directly from Filemaker, but it seems to me that a standard driver would be sufficient. Any Advice

Wow, that's funny, I am building a solution and we are considering that exact model. I am proposing right now and trying to figure out a way to test the output from FMP without buying the printer first.

I dont know about that particular model of Zebra, but in my experience I have had issues with FileMaker playing nice with Zebra printers. Although I didnt have issues with getting it to print, it was really slow printing shipping labels / retail tags with barcodes coming from FileMaker.

There was a half second pause between each label instead of a steady stream you normally get with a Zebra. Using other applications with the same Zebra, it flew.

John;

did you need to load a special driver, or was it provided by Zebra with the printer purchase? I'm not too concerned about the speed since I'm dealing in low volumes.

Thanks for the input

Arny

We used the driver provided...

John . . Thanks . .

Arny