Printing directly from a printer connected to your laptop is possible, but depending on your printer, there may be different steps and outcomes. Our badge printing is designed to print a single badge per page. We recommend using a Label Printer such as a Zebra ZD420, 500, or 620 thermal printer. This can work with computer and tablet printing.

In addition to printing a test badge in the badge designer, you can print attendee badges in the admin console's Check In Attendees, Staff Portal, and Add Attendees tabs.

Attendees > Check In Attendees - From the admin console, you can check in and print badges for attendees.

Staff Portal - If you have staff checking in attendees in the event venue using a laptop, they can access the Staff Portal from the landing page to check in attendees and print their badges.

Attendees > Add Attendees - After manually adding an attendee in the admin console, you'll see an option to print the badge. This is typically used for walk-in registrations.

In Attendees > Check In Attendees, you can select some badges you want to download or download all. After preparing the file, click

Click the Download button and select All attendee badges. You will be notified through email that you're file is ready to download and you can click directly from your inbox to download or through the push notification in the admin console. You will download a zip file with multiple pdf files if you downloaded more than 10 badges.

Select the attendees to include in the download by ticking the checkbox on the left side, then click Export PDF. You should also receive an email that your pdf is ready for download. You can click directly from the email or from the Download from the push notification in the admin console.

This is the email with a link to download the file after you export the PDF.

If you're using a regular ink printer, a new tab will open when you try to print. You can print or save the file as a PDF on your computer. It will create that PDF in color, which you can use to print on a regular ink printer. Clicking the Print Badge button lets you download or print 1 badge at a time.

If the print of your custom-sized badge is enlarged to fit your A4 paper, like in the image below, change the Scale to Default to scale it back to its original size.

If you're printing from a computer browser connected to a Zebra printer, you may need to install Browser Print. The Accelevents Platform has incorporated the Zebra Browser Print SDK into the Attendee Check-In page of our web application. This will allow you to print a test badge or an attendee badge directly from the Check-in page without going through your computer's system print dialog, making printing a badge from a computer/laptop web browser to a Zebra printer easier and faster.

To confirm if your printer is connected to Browser Print, you should see the printer's IP address in the Browser Print Settings, just like in the screenshot below:

Setting your print resolution is especially important for Zebra printers, which can be 203, 300, or 600 DPI. The setting determines the size of your printed badge. This setting applies to computer printing.