Archive | May, 2023

How to run 3 inch labels on your 4 inch Zebra Printer

15 May

I couldn’t find anything to retrofit my old Zebra Printer that is made for 4 inch labels. So I made one myself. Please share this graphic – even though it’s a little amateur – because it’s greener to have everybody use just one printer instead of buying two!

So here is how to print 3” labels on a 4” Zebra Printer. You will have to redo the bottle caps every once in a while because they will slip. But it’s worth the effort.

And I actually doubled the tape so it held better. Cut small strips of packing tape if you really need it to hang on for a long time.

And if you did not realize that you can put labels through the back of a zebra printer: it’s time for you to look at buying flat labels. They are so much nicer when they print out the front if they go in the back flat instead of on a roll. Plus it’s greener to ship them to you because spools are round so there’s a lot of air in the package. Flat labels are like bricks. There’s no air in the package to waste space when they’re shipped to you.