Managing Your Printers

Typically, printers are added to a BarTender site by your BarTender administrator. When this is the case, you do not need to add printers to the BarTender Mobile app to print your documents; you need only to connect to the BarTender site that hosts the printers. These printers appear in the BarTender site's Printers list at print time so that you can select the printer that you want to use.

However, in some cases, you might need to add one or more local printers to the app. After you do this, the printers that you add to the app are shared with the BarTender site at print time and appear in the site's Printers list.

This topic describes how to manage printers that are added to the app, not the printers that are hosted on a BarTender site. Use the Manage Printer Settings page to detect local printers, to manually add a printer to the app, and to delete a printer from the app.

To open the Manage Printer Settings page, tap .

ClosedDetecting and Adding Printers

When you open the BarTender Mobile app, it automatically detects connected Bluetooth printers and connected network printers that use an IP address. These printers are then listed on the Manage Printer Settings page.

If the printer that you want is not listed, you can tap to instruct the app to detect connected printers and refresh the printer list. Or, you can manually add a printer to the list. When you do this, the added printer is shared with your BarTender site when you connect to it.

By default, after you add a printer, it appears in the list together with a check mark that indicates that the printer will be shared to the BarTender site and will appear in the site's Printers list. If you clear this check mark, the printer will not be shared and will not appear in the list.

Adding a Bluetooth printer

To manually add a Bluetooth printer, use your device's Bluetooth connection settings to locate and pair with the printer that you want.

Adding a network IP printer

To manually add a network IP printer, follow these steps:

  1. On the Manage Printer Settings page, tap .

  2. In the Add Printer dialog, enter the following information: 

    • The IP address or host name for the printer

    • The port number

    • The printer manufacturer name and model number

      Note: If the printer is an IPP printer, select Universal (IPP) in the Manufacturer list.

    • The height and width of the labels to be printed, in inches or millimeters (this information is required by most printers)

  3. Tap Save.

ClosedDeleting Printers

If the BarTender Mobile app cannot identify, locate, or re-establish a connection with printers that you manually added to the app, you can delete those printers. To do this, tap next to the printer that you want to delete.