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Thermal printer feeds blank labels before printing
Your thermal label printer outputs one or more blank labels before the actual print. Two root causes — paper sensor malfunction or unsupported label paper — and how to diagnose each.
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If your printer always prints one or more blank labels before the actual PDF, the issue is almost always one of these two causes:
Cause 1: Paper sensor malfunction
The printer can’t detect where one label ends and the next begins, so it ejects blank labels trying to find the gap.
This is a firmware/hardware issue — best handled by your printer manufacturer’s support. There’s nothing to fix inside BarcodeMan.
Cause 2: Unsupported label paper
Some printer drivers don’t support printing PDF format on specific label models. For example, the ZEBRA 2.2” × 0.5” 8000T JEWELRY LABEL is unsupported.
To confirm: try printing a standard label size (e.g., 4” × 6”) on the same printer. If the standard size works fine, the issue is with the specific label model, not BarcodeMan.
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