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Tutorial for Printing with PrintNode

by Jillian Voege

Introducing our tutorial on Printing with PrintNode! Your code that interfaces with the EasyPost API may be running on servers outside of the warehouse, so it’s important to understand how to easily interface with your printers. This is a simple introduction to printing labels from any web app to one or more remote printers.

What you'll learn:

  • How to configure your printer and use PrintNode to connect it to the internet.
  • Ways to format labels for printing using the EasyPost API.
  • How to request and print labels for your shipments from a simple web app to any PrintNode connected printer.

PrintNode Tutorial

If you’re looking to get remote printing set up as quickly as possible, we provide a simple repositoryopens in new tab that you can use as a starting point. It will look like this:

The UI for printing labels using PrintNode