1. Order Management
  2. Order Fulfillment and Shipping
  3. Shipping
  4. Shipping Integration with FedEx, UPS, and USPS/Endicia
  5. Printing Integrated Shipping Labels With a Thermal Printer

Printing Integrated Shipping Labels With a Thermal Printer

The Shipping Label Integration feature enables you to print a barcode shipping label for a sales order, vendor return, or transfer order.

To print a label:

  1. Create a shipping item.

    To learn more, see Creating Shipping Items.

  2. Create a sales order with the shipping item.

    To learn more, see Creating Sales Orders

  3. Fulfill the sales order.

    To learn more, see Fulfilling Orders

  4. To generate a shipping label, check the Label Integration box.

  5. Click Submit.

For a list of compatible thermal printers, visit UPS.com and Fedex.com.

To print labels in EPL or ZPL format using a thermal printer:

ZPL format is currently supported by USPS and UPS services.

To install a thermal printer driver on a Windows PC:

  1. Install the driver according to the printer manufacturer’s instructions.

  2. Share the printer on a network:

    1. Go to Control Panel > Devices and Printers.

    2. Open printer.

    3. In Printer Properties select the Sharing tab.

    4. Check the Share This Printer box.

    5. In the Share Name field, enter the name of the printer.

      The printer name cannot contain spaces.

    6. Click OK.

  3. To send the label files to the printer, Create a batch file:

    1. Open a text editor, such as Notepad.

    2. If you are printing to a local printer using a USB port, replace ‘PrinterName' with the name of your printer. Do not replace ‘ComputerName' with the name of your computer. It will change dynamically when the batch file runs.

      Net use LPT2: \\%ComputerName%\PrinterName

      Copy %1 LPT2

      Net use LPT2: /Delete

    3. If you are using a network thermal printer, replace 'Server' with the print server name. Replace 'PrinterName' with the name of your printer:

      print /d:\\Server\PrinterName %1

    4. Click Save.

    5. In Filename, enter label.bat. Replace the .txt suffix with .bat.

    6. In the Save as Type field, select All Files.

    7. Select a Location to save the file to.

    8. Click Save.

  4. Add the file extension and assign default program associations:

    1. From the Start menu, enter Indexing.

    2. Click Enter.

    3. In the Indexing Options window, click Advanced.

    4. Click the File Types tab.

    5. In the Add new extension to list field, add epl2 and then click Add..

      Repeat this step for zpl.

      Completing these steps ensures that you can search for your EPL2 and .ZPL files using Windows search.

    Setting a default program to open the batch file

    Select one of the following methods to open EPL2 or ZPL files from your desktop.

    Method 1

    1. Save the EPL2 or ZPL file to your desktop.

    2. Right-click the saved file.

    3. Click Open With and then Choose default program.

    4. Click Browse and then locate the label.bat file.

    5. Click Open.

    6. Check the Always use the selected to open this kind of file box.

    7. Click OK.

    Method 2

    1. Right-click the saved EPL2 or ZPL file.

    2. Select Properties

    3. In the General tab, click Change.

    4. Select a program from the list or click Browse to select the label.bat file you saved earlier.

To set up your NetSuite account to print shipping labels in EPL or ZPL format:

  1. Before fulfilling the order, go to Setup > Accounting > Setup Tasks > Shipping.

  2. Click the shipping account you want to use to print the label.

  3. In the Label Type field, select one of the following options:

    Format

    Available Shipping Accounts

    EPL (4 x 6)

    UPS, USPS

    EPL (4 x 8)

    UPS

    ZPL (4 x 6)

    FedEx, UPS

    ZPL (4 x 8)

    UPS

    ZPLII (4 x 6)

    FedEx, USPS

  4. Click Submit.

To print a shipping label in EPL or ZPL format:

  1. After fulfilling an order, go to Transactions > Management > Print Checks and Forms.

  2. Click Integrated Shipping Labels.

  3. To begin printing on the first label of the first sheet of labels, in the Starting Label field, enter 1.

    Enter 2 to begin printing on the second column, or second label, on the sheet.

  4. Select a carrier to the print labels for.

    Alternatively, select All.

  5. Leave the Single Label Per Page box clear. This preference is for printing in PDF format.

  6. Optionally, select a Location.

  7. In the Print column, check the box next to each order you want to print a label for.

    • To check the boxes for all items, click Mark All.

    • To view the sales order, click the Order Date.

    • To view the Item order Fulfillment, click the Ship Date.

  8. Click Print.

    A window opens with instructions on how to download your label.

Attach the label to the package for the order, and it is ready for drop-off or pick-up.

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