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Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

impressionposters — Fri, 01 May 2015 04:42:23 GMT

I'm having trouble trying to print the prepaid shipping labels with my 4xl Dymo printer. There's no option to scale the label or really do any changes to the layout at all. I've noticed on the U.S site you can change the preferred printer before you print the label so the label matches the printer, but here there just seems to be default A4 page that you can't change at all.

Not sure if anyone has been able to get around it without having to download each label to their computer, open it in Adobe and then change the scale and print, there's no way I'm doing that for each label when I should be able to just press print and that's that.

Any help would be appreciated.

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

phorum_junkie* — Fri, 01 May 2015 09:16:53 GMT

You can still select a printer when using the labels, I know that as sometimes I forget I have been using my inkjet printer and don't change it back to my laser printer so waste ink printing the label in colour. . You must have some supersized labels if you wanted to print one of the ebay labels and still have the barcode readable but if it works you can alter the size of the label by either copy and pasting it into an editing program or by useing the reprint label which from memory opens it as a pdf document.

I can't imagine why you would go to all that trouble rather rhan using A4 paper which can produce 2 labels and they just fit into the satchel pocket.

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

thecatspjs — Fri, 01 May 2015 09:43:19 GMT

@phorum_junkie* wrote:

I can't imagine why you would go to all that trouble rather rhan using A4 paper which can produce 2 labels and they just fit into the satchel pocket.

Not sure about OP, but given that they sell posters, they may have needs like thousands of other sellers that freight goods daily in their own packaging such as boxes and tubes - and not a satchel - so being able to print sticky label makes great sense to me in this type of situation.

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

dylan11235813 — Fri, 01 May 2015 11:15:51 GMT

I have a dymo and have found the software that comes with them quite mediocre, the unit functions well unless there is a jam. There is no extra features or anything.

I have never used the converting software or whatever is integrated into ebay to do up labels. You could pay a software engineer to help. There is likely heaps of free stuff around as well.

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

impressionposters — Sat, 02 May 2015 02:37:15 GMT

We have been using a laser printer and printing the A4 sheets then cutting them to size and taping them on, but this is really time wasting and a waste of paper. So I thought to get a label printer that prints the 4in by 6in labels the size is perfect, but no luck with ebay locking the size to A4!

The dymo is obviously trying to scale A4 to 4in by 6in. All we need is ebay to implement a proper printing dialogue box with scale options or an auto scale feature.

I know you get the popup dialogue box for the printers, but ebay needs to implement auto resizing to fit label printers. The U.S site has done it, but nothing here?

I've attached an image of what happens when we try to print the labels from ebay to the Dymo 4XL.

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

thecatspjs — Sat, 02 May 2015 02:46:21 GMT

How frustrating.

The whole Oz eBay set up of the labels default is thoughtless & environmentally irresponsible.

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

dymosupport — Tue, 05 May 2015 11:27:54 GMT

Dear Impressionposters,

If you are printing from pdf you may set the paper size to 1744907

If you are not printing from pdf the option to set this paper size should still be selectable in yor respective software.

If the above does not provide a solution for you please contact the helpdesk for your country via www.dymo.com and your country's and/or language.

We are aways happy to be of service to our customers.

Kind regards,

Paul

Dymo Customer Service

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

colbook2014 — Wed, 06 May 2015 01:38:54 GMT

I initially had this kind of trouble. I select control, a, and p and then it goes tp printer select and allows me to print in correct size.

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

truthseekingmedia — Thu, 07 May 2015 05:13:43 GMT

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

impressionposters — Thu, 07 May 2015 05:19:36 GMT

That does work! A few more steps than just one click print, but it works.
The only problem is that it prints out 2 pages, so I just have to remember to select one page.

Also it only works on Firefox as I tried it on chrome and it didn't come out properly, but the works for me. Thank you!

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

impressionposters — Mon, 11 May 2015 01:04:07 GMT

Well I figured it out if anyone wants to know. It's so simple that I totally over looked it and there's no special techniques.

Using Firefox once you have confirmed the address and press the create label button, when the printer dialog box appears just select the (pages) option in the print range instead of (all). That's it! It prints perfectly.

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

completegroup — Sat, 07 May 2016 04:15:02 GMT

Your windows version might need you to save as a off and then open with Adobe to give you the 90% size reduction

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

*tippy*toes* — Sat, 07 May 2016 05:24:02 GMT

One would hope that after 12 months they would have got it sorted!

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

chemical_potential — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 02:48:35 GMT

good afternoon,

just to clarify this a little for everyone,

and to help smooth out any other problems you will need to:

step

1 - set printer to "DYMO LabelWriter 4XL"

2 - under "Page Sizing & handling set custom scale to 90% (as seen in picture green square)

3 - Set orientation to "Portrait" any other setting will not work. (as seen in the blue square)

4 - go to "page setup.." as seen in the red square, and set that to "1744907 4 in x 6 in"

5 - print

Chemical Potential

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

adventureunlimitedaustraliaptyltd — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:07:56 GMT

To add to this, if you are a mac user, it seems Safari is being it's typical B*TCH self and causing part of the problem, on a quick test run using a PDF (opened in Firefox) of an A4 sized label (label in top left quarter). I managed to print to a 104x159 (4"x6") Dymo label using the above technique on my 4XL.

I also managed to print clearly and cleanly at 96% scaling instead of 90%, each to their own.

Thanks for everyones help, if only they made it how it should be with printing options like the US version.

Although I believe it may also have something to do with Australia Post as their 'Click and Send' has the same problem, only doing A4 with a very similar label.

Thanks again.

-Todd

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

lyndal1838 — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:27:14 GMT

Todd, this thread is 2 years old.....I am sure the problem has been sorted out now.

Most of the posters no longer post on the boards now.

It is not good form to drag up old threads. If you need help you will get it more readily if you start your own thread. Most responders do not read old threads so are unlikely to see a new question tacked on the end.

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

tropical_imports — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 11:52:13 GMT

Yeh, well, it's 2021, just bought a Dyma 4XL and is till can't figure it out. My advice would be, don't buy one

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

lizzys-allsorts — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:17:56 GMT

Are you trying to print direct from ebay, Australia Post or some other platform? If you don't get a satisfactory answer from this thread (it is an old one) - just start a new thread.

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

bikeden — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:51:54 GMT

Dymo = Drama. Buy a generic thermal label printer and use off the shelf labels which are way cheaper. The reason they are a 'best seller' is because they last about a year and then you need to buy a new one...

Re: Help with printing shipping labels with Dymo 4XL printer

mhow8246 — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 07:01:39 GMT

If anyone is interested - I found how to do it so happy.

Go to your label settings and do 1 per A4.

When you select the DYMO label as printer it automatically adjusts the size & prints perfectly. The 1 per A4 ensures 1 label printed per label on DYMO.

All the best.