Zebra printer printing

[Sillygirl]

I am converting code from IGP to ZPL and I wanted to know if anyone had any kind of code samples for me to look at.

Here is an excerpt of what was coded in VB to a printronix printer. What would it be like in ZPL?

Printer.Print "^PY^-"
Printer.Print "^PY^-"
Printer.Print "^F^-"
Printer.Print "^H44^-"
Printer.Print "^IPAGE,LAND^-"
Printer.Print "^M0201420^T0040"; Format(Date, "y") 'julian date
Printer.Print "^M0100010^T0393 QUANTITY (Q)"
Printer.Print "^I000^-"
Printer.Print "^O^-"
Printer.Print "^PN^-"
Printer.EndDoc

Thanks to all who contribute in Advance!

-Sillygirl

 

[HughLerwill]

<<an excerpt of what was coded in VB>>

Was that VB for DOS?

regards Hugh,

 

[harebrain]

Your best bets are to go here

http://www.printronix.com/printers.aspx

and here

http://www.zebra.com/id/zebra/na/en/index/resource_library/manuals.html

Get the programming reference manuals for the exact models of printer you're dealing with. Then you'll be armed to do this yourself.

 

[Sillygirl]

Been there done that. I have coded in VGL/PGL before - have no problem - just what is the conversion - how to put ZPL which is the printer language for Zebras into Visual Basic 6.0.

Thanks.

 

[zarkon4]

I have done this in both vb6 and .NET
You cannot use printer.print, you must open the port the printer is connected to , I have provided sample code below.


Dim lYBarCode As Long
Dim lYText1 As Long
Dim lYText2 As Long
Dim lYLabelLen As Long

'Label Length=number of labels * 250
lYLabelLen = 1500
lYBarCode = 100 ' y pos for barcode
lYText1 = 110 ' y pos for tool code/loc code
lYText2 = 80 ' y pos for itemid

Open "LPT1:" For Output As #1

Print #1, "^XA^MMC^MNN^MTT^PON^PMN^JMA^PR4,4^JUS^CI0^XZ"
Print #1, "^XA"

Print #1, "^LH0,0^LL" & 150

Print #1, "^BY2,3,70^FT425," & lYBarCode & "^B3N,N,,N,N"
Print #1, "^FD12345^FS"
Print #1, "^FO400," & lYText1 & "^A0N25,25"
Print #1, "^FDCEMVAR1000X1000X20004FLHS^FS"
Print #1, "^FO665," & lYText2 & "^A0N25,25"
Print #1, "^FD12345^FS"
Print #1, "^XZ"
Close #1

 

[Sillygirl]

Zarkon 4:

Thanks for your reply - do you mean you cannot use printer.print with VGL also - if so you are wrong with that however with ZPL - you are probably correct - however the printer is a networked printer not attached to the local port... and the IP address could change.
So what would I use on the open statement?

 

[zarkon4]

I believe you have to open it using it's ip address and port, I'm not sure of how to do this though, I did find it somewhere in the documentation.

 

[jadams0173]

I print zpl to netowrked printers using a Print Server provide by zebra that plugs into the LPT port. I actually write my ZPL to a text file and FTP the text file to the printer using the name of the print server as it is static. The IP is DHCP so it could change.

I tried to have patience but it took to long! -DW