Hello
First, I was not sure if I should put this in the OS forum or the hardware . . . so I apologize if I picked the wrong category.
In short, I am running a MacBook Pro
Lion OS X 10.7.3
We needed a thermal printer to print shipping labels (which we also wanted to use to print 2' x 2' ingredient labels.). UPS offered us a free printer and so we were happy to receive the ZP 450.
It appears this printer is made specifically for UPS, although I can not officially confirm it. I can't seem to find any drivers for it to run on the Mac,
Now, UPS tech walked me through setting up the printer on my mac so that I can print the UPS labels directly from the ups internet site. That works fine.
They told me that YES, you can print other labels with this on the MAC (like the 2' ingredient labels we want to use) . . however they could not support that and could not tell me how to go about it.
I currently use Open Office for MAc . . and so I tried opening that and creating a label and printing it to the newly added Zebra printer. It prints . . but all I get are blanks.
I have spent the last 3 days searching online for information . . and getting nowhere. Has anyone done something similar? I just want to print labels from another source than UPS website. Like Pages, or Open Office . . . or something . . anything.
I don't want to go out and buy another printer, or use a laser printer and use up all the ink printing labels.
Any suggestions? (laymen's terms please . . hardware/software is not my forte)
Thank you!!