Endicia app drivers#

Endicia app drivers#

This is truly unnecessary when modern print drivers can 'know' the hardware status of the printer in real time and prevent excessive loss from inevitable hardware failures. For example, if you wanted to print 100 First Class stamps and the first one jammed, Endicia charges you for the full 100, a loss of $44 at the current rate. Simply put, you lose (at least part of) the value of your print order. The software warns you that you have to have enough labels on the roll to complete a multiple-stamp printing, but it doesn't tell you what happens when the first (or subsequent) label in the queue jams the printer. Add to this the fallibility of the LabelWriter printer (400 Turbo), which occasionally allows a jam-up with the sticky side of the label rolling around the platen, and you have mega-potential for additional expense. This monopoly (synonym for price-gouging) is said to 'protect' the user from illegally printing unauthorized stamps, but it is not clear just how such a risk could arise, or, who would be liable for such unauthorized postage. Prospective buyers should also know that Endicia is the only supplier for the stamp feedstock for the LabelWriter Turbo label printers.

If the USPS added 10 cents to the First Class rate, the public would have a collective conniption. It adds about $0.105 to the cost of postage, or, as little as 7 cents additional if you buy 2000 labels at once. Endicia may be just the ticket for commercial applications, but the stamp feedstock is prohibitively expensive for most household mailing needs.