Zebra Technologies ZP 450 Pre-install Windows Printer Drivers

Getting Started

Pre-install Windows® Printer Drivers

12/8/2010 ZP 450 User Guide P1031442-001

Pre-install Windows® Printer Drivers

Zebra is chan ging the w ay you inst all and use your print er with you r Windows ba sed PC

systems. We recommend that at minimum, the ZebraDesigner™ Windows® driver be pre-

installed to take advantage of the advancements in ease of use and simplicity of the Windows

operating system s since the releas e of Windows XP® SP2.

Zebra provides the suite of printer drivers with internal utilities and tools for use with most

Windows PC op erating sys tems.The Z ebraDesigne r Windows pri nter driv ers are avail able on

the user’s CD and the Zebra web site (www.up s.zebra.co m) for latest versions.

ZebraDesigner™ Driver: Supports Windows 7®, Windows Vista®, Wind ows XP®,

Windows® 2000®, Windows Server® 2008, and Windows Server® 2003 operating systems.

The driver supports 32 bit and 64 bit Windows operating systems and is Microsoft Certified.

Zebra Setup Utilities and the ZebraDesigner driver support the following ZP-Series printer

communication interfaces: USB, Parallel, Serial, and Wired Ethernet.

Install the ZebraDesigner Driver before applying power to the printer connected to the

PC (running a Zebra driver supported Windows operating system).

More recent Windows operating systems automatically detect the printer when it is connected

via the USB interface. Depending on the hardware configuration and the Windows version,

your printer may be Plug-and-Play (PnP) detected when connecting to the USB, parallel, or

serial port interfaces. The printer drivers do not support serial port PnP installation at this

time.The printer’s PC interface configuration for the parallel port must support and have

bidirectional communications for PnP operations.

The operating system automatically starts a “Add new hardware’ wizard when connecting the

printer for the first time to the PC. If you have pre-loaded the driver suite with the Zebra Setup

Utility, then the printer driver will automatically install. Go to your Windows printer directory

and right-click and select ‘Properties’. Click on the ‘Print test page’ button to verify a

successful installation.

The Windows operating system will detect and re-link a previously installed printer if it is

reconnected to the USB interface or if printer power is turned on after the PC has finished its

restart of the operating syst em. Ignore the new device detec ted warnings and close the Task bar

prompts. Wait several seconds for the operating system to match the printer to the driver

software. The warnings will quit and the printer now should be ready to begin printing.

The Windows operating system will ins tall a separate instance of the printer dri ver for each

printer. The printer's serial number links the printer to each driver instance to allow the printers

to have unique printer settings.

The printer is a terminal device (not a host or hub) when using a USB interface. You can refer

to the USB Specification for details regarding this interface.

Note • Scanners, scales or other d ata input (termin al) devices must u se the serial por t (not the

USB port) to send data to the printer.