Photograph the item (up to 6)

Capture different angles, both sides, any markings, the gate/stitching. Photos are used for AI identification and stay as the visual-inspection record.

Make a printer file

Patches a real printer master — only the letters and the counter start change. Layout, fonts and spacing stay exactly as built on the printer.

Getting it onto the printer

1. Files app → Downloads → long-press the .zip → Uncompress (new-format files are folders; Safari can only download zips)
2. Printer: cartridge in, power on, Settings → USB
3. Connect the phone by cable. Lightning needs a Lightning-to-USB3 Camera Adapter with power passthrough — cheap USB2 adapters fail on power draw
4. Copy into USER → user → record — navigate into user, then into record, and paste there. Not the top level: the root is treated as removable USB content and the counter resets to the start value every power-off. Only user/record is permanent storage.
5. Delete any "._" file that appears beside it after pasting. iOS writes these automatically and they must not be left on the printer
6. Disconnect, power-cycle the printer, then File → [layout] → Open

Registered equipment

Print ID labels

1. Press Connect (above), then tap Settings > USB on the printer itself
2. Enter your prefix & start number below and tap Load labels
3. Press Release (above) — this drops the printer out of USB mode
4. Long-press the printer button, wait for the beep, then wait ~90s for its screen. Print your batch
5. Come back here, enter the last ID you printed, and register them (bulk or one at a time)

The printer's screen and USB mode are firmware — the app can't press those for you.

Register without printing

Already-marked gear, or a code you typed yourself.

Add to this item's history

Account

Label printer bridge

Runs on your Raspberry Pi (zkbridge). The Pi keeps the ID sequence; GearTrace reads the next ID from it. A quick-tunnel URL changes whenever the tunnel or Pi restarts — paste the new one here. The token is sent with every request as X-Bridge-Token. These settings are stored for your whole company — set them once here and every phone that signs in picks them up automatically.

How it works

Scanning marked items, the register and logs use the shared company database. AI identification runs on the server with the owner's key — no key needed on your phone. Location is captured from this phone's GPS (allow when asked) and stored as the item's last known location.