bar code label printer 2

[zoonkai]

Does anybody have any experience with bar code printers on a SCO Unix Box? I'm setting up an Eltron TLP 2742 bar code printer (currently on LPT port, but will move to serial board after setup and testing is done).

a tech at eltron sent me a little script that one of his customers sent him and said it worked for them, however it seems like everytime i try to print anything to the printer it kickes out the current configuratiion of the printer...i have disabled banner pages....and have tried several emulation methods.....standard, dumb, crnlmap, and a couple others..i forget now

any help getting this going would be greatly appreciated.

Donald Dixon
Don-Nan Pump & Supply co. inc.
zoonkai@don-nan.com

(915) 682-7742




Donald (Zoonkai) Dixon
donnan@don-nan.com

http://www.don-nan.com

 

[abovebrd]

I use DATAMAX thermal printers printers. In some cases I have to put the printer in to test mode in order pass text from the command line.

(This probably did not help )

-Danny

 

[mrregan]

Hi,
I have worked with lots of different bar code printers on unix and never had any trouble. The printer need to be defined as standard or dumb. I suspect your escape sequences or imbedded control commands are incorrect. You definitely dont want banner pages or any other extended filtering .Some of these printers have a 'hexdump' mode so you can see exactly what the printer is receiving. Hope this helps.

 

[stanhubble]

We use a Monarch/Paxar TLP2742 (eltron rebranded) on SCO.
These are forms based with a very different instruction set from your normal lineprinter.
The key is to not let the SCO print system do anything to the data that you are printing. It must be setup as a dumb or raw printer.

the "interface" file that we use looks like this:

# @(#) dumb 22.2 90/04/24
#
#
# UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T
# Portions Copyright 1976-1989 AT&T
# Portions Copyright 1980-1989 Microsoft Corporation
# Portions Copyright 1983-1989 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc
# All Rights Reserved

#ident "@(#)lp:model/dumb 1.3.1.2"
# lp interface for dumb line printer
#
copies=$4
shift; shift; shift; shift; shift
files="$*"
options=$5
Wide=no
i=1
while [ $i -le $copies ]
do
for file in $files
do
cat "$file" 2>&1
done
i=`expr $i + 1`
done
exit 0

If you have any questions reguarding the printer I have had quite a bit of experience with it. We use it for printing all sorts of labels some with bar codes, some with custom fonts, some with multi labels per line, etc.

Stan Hubble
Home Hardware Stores Limited
email: stan.hubble@homehardware.ca