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Best method to send ZPL to a zebra printer address on a network
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sherman levine
I know I can send ZPL to a shared Zebra printer by sending text output to a file named \\servername\printername or \\localhost\printername, however I now need to send ZPL to a printer which simply has an IP address on a network.
What would be the best way to accomplish that from a Windows workstation? Thank you Sherm |
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Todd Baremore
Sherm,
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Not sure if this applicable...... From https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/send-zpl-command-to-zebra-170pax4-via-tcp-ip-socket/6003/6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry for the Delay been busy, changing the script to utilize the Java socket work and now I’m able to print without issues. Bellow if a snip of the code if anyone needs it. strMessage = “^XA^LH10,10^LRY^F010,45^AFN,20,20^FDHELLO^FS^XZ” #======================================================================================== Send Data to Printer #======================================================================================== port=9100 try: # Open Socket Connection clientSocket=Socket(strIP,port) #Open data output stream outToPrinter=DataOutputStream(clientSocket.getOutputStream()) #Send Data to Printer outToPrinter.write(strMessage) #close data stream and socket outToPrinter.close(); clientSocket.close(); except IOError: print “Error” Todd On 1/25/2023 2:51 PM, sherman levine wrote:
I know I can send ZPL to a shared Zebra printer by sending text output to a file named \\servername\printername or \\localhost\printername, however I now need to send ZPL to a printer which simply has an IP address on a network. |
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sherman levine
Todd
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Lots of interesting possibilities there Thanks Sherm On Jan 25, 2023, at 22:12, Todd Baremore <tbaremor@...> wrote: |
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Sherm,
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Does the Zebra printer "listen" on a certain TCP/IP port? If so, you should be able to use Windows Sockets to send the packet, not at all unlike sending data to those cute little blinky lights. Steven G. Blank Ξ SGBlank Consulting On 1/25/2023 7:52 PM, sherman levine wrote:
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sherman levine
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Thank you. That's what the ethernet version of the printer is supposed to do, and I'll try the Chlkatsoft product. I'm hoping that I can use the Windows lpr command to accomplish the same thing. It's available on my 64bit Win10 computer after I turn it on in Windows Features. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/lpr Sherm On 1/26/2023 2:12 PM, Steven Blank wrote:
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