Today is a big day in the Check-Ins world. We’ve just released an iOS update that supports the Brother QL710W wifi label. On top of that, we’re also releasing a Check-Ins Station Android application that will support both mobile printers, Citizen and the new Brother printers.
Android Application
As you can expect, the Android app works almost identical to the iOS app. You can now access the device’s camera for scanning and saving barcodes, as well as adding profile pictures. The other advantage is that you can now connect both the Citizen mobile printer, and the Brother printer to the app. The app will work on devices running KitKat (Android 4.4) and above. Go download it and try it out!
Brother Printer
There are a few things we’re excited about with this Brother printer. First, it works on both Android and iOS simultaneously, so all of your volunteers can print to it with either device at the same time. Second, it’s affordably priced at about $100 on Amazon. And lastly, the labels look almost identical to the Dymo labels. For more details, check out our Check-Ins Hardware Article.
Printer Status
One thing we wanted to get right with this massive mobile update is a better status bar for printers. So, if you’re running on Android or iOS you’ll see a new bar at the top that should inform you of the status. Once connected it’ll show green for the first 5 seconds, then show just the status at the top. If the printer is ever disconnected, the status bar will be red.
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The Check-Ins Team, Scott, Robert, Jake, and Jesse (with special guest, Erik!... our Android developer)