Quick Installation Guide
7
ZP 500 Thermal Printer
Now that you have installed the ZP 500 thermal printer driver,
follow the procedure below to complete the setup of
your thermal printer driver with the appropriate FedEx
Ship Manager
®
solution.
If you are using FedEx Ship Manager at fedex.com:
1.
Log in to FedEx Ship Manager at fedex.com. (Go to
fedex.com
, place your cursor over the
Ship
tab and select
Prepare Shipment
from the drop-down menu. The fedex.com
Login screen displays.)
2.
Click
Preferences
at the top of the screen.
3.
In the Printer and Scale Options area of the Preferences
screen, click the
Thermal Printer
radio button or click
Set
up thermal printer
. The Thermal printer setup instructions
screen displays.
Note: If the Thermal printer setup instructions screen displays for the LP 2844
thermal printer, select
ZP 500
from the Select thermal printer drop-down
menu in Step 1.
Note: To prevent printing problems, you must comply with the Java requirements
listed in the thermal printer setup instructions. To access the Java requirements
for the ZP 500 thermal printer, click
Detailed instructions
on the Thermal printer
setup instructions screen. When the resulting screen displays, click
FedEx Ship
Manager at fedex.com – Thermal Label Printer Selection
. Scroll through
the Frequently Asked Questions section and locate the “What are the minimum
hardware requirements?” question. The current Java requirements for the ZP 500
thermal printer are located in the ZP 500 minimum hardware requirements list.
Step 6: Complete Setup
4.
Click
Done
, and then click
Save changes
on the Preferences
screen to save the ZP 500 printer as the default printer.
5.
On the Preferences screen, click the
Thermal Printer
radio
button or click
Set up thermal printer
.
6.
Click
Print test message
in step 5 of the online instructions
to make sure the printer is properly set up.
7.
Once you’ve completed the procedure, click
Done
, and then
click
Save changes
on the Preferences screen.
If you intend to use FedEx Ship Manager Software but you have
not installed the software yet, insert the FedEx Ship Manager
Software CD and follow the installation procedure.
If you are using FedEx Ship Manager Software and have
already installed the software:
1.
Launch FedEx Ship Manager Software.
2.
From the tool bar, click
Customize
and select
System Settings
.
3.
Select the appropriate system number and click
Modify
.
4.
Select the
2 – FedEx Customer Admin
tab.
