Printer is working but labels are blank - Zebra LP 2844 Thermal Printer

It may be that it is only out of ink

The blank label is probably du to:
- Wrong size of the label( callibrate the printer with the label)
use your owner's manual

It's possible that the printer did not get a good calibration on the size of the label. There's an optic sensor looking for the gaps in the labels. A test would be to turn the printer off and back on again. When it is ready, just press the feed key. If one label advances then the printer had a good read on the label size. The idea is to see if the printer works ok by itself first.

Now print a label - if you get two labels then you have to look at the software / printer driver as the cause. The printer will only do what it's told to do.

Hope that helps !

Sounds like it is set to do a label length check at power on. Go into your printer preferences and set it to "do nothing" on power up.

Usually that means that the labels are missing from the printer. Turn the printer off. Reload the label stock and restart the computer it is connected to. Then it should work properly.

THE LABEL SENSOR IS NOT SENSING THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT LABEL

Clean the photo eye that senses the label gap with a q tip and alchol

Open side door release print head and remove label stock you will see small photo eye clean

put printer in manual mode( switch 1 on to and 1 on botom on

turn printer on it should advance one label and hit skip it should advance another

put back in computer mode

should work now if it still skips check yur label desigh=n software and label mode (continuous or sense label)


Best of luck to you

It sounds like they may need to set their "Q" values for the labels they are using.   If that isn't it, we may need more info - are they using Zebra brand or custom labels?  
To start with, I would ask them to try adding these "Q" value commands: q456 Q152,24
If that doesn't work, then maybe they can provide the other info mentioned above so we can understand the problem better.

I am having the same problem! Printing blank labels. Don't know what's wrong now. It was working fine yesterday.

We have found a reset that we use.
We unplug the printer and then we hold down the feed button and we keep holding down the feed button while we plug back in.
It goes through some sort of a reset and this sometimes works.

your printer needs to be calibrated and set label lenth in the driver in both printer preference and printer defaults