Re: Serial Zebra Designer Pro 2.2.3 Download
Elpidio Heart
I have been using the attached vi for several years without any problems on windows XP computers but it no longer functions on the windows 7 computers that I have tried to use it on with 'printer not found' message.
The printer is ZTC LP2844-Z 200dpi which is set up in windows as default printer, so in the vi the printer is not specified. This arrangement worked for XP but although in Windows 7 I can print out using the printer 'test' function it does not work in Labview.
I have read other posts and solutions using the Zebra progarm code but the application I am using just uses text files hence use of report generator so would have thought it would function as a basic printer?
Unfortunately Zebra lists the Service & Support Discontinuation Date for the LP2844-Z as September 2, 2014. This might mean that they would refuse to help with this query but I would try it anyway since they are likely to be able to help.
If you know what commands the printer expects from your computer, how it is supposed to be connected and what communication protocol it uses then you will be able to generate those commands from LabVIEW and send them to your printer.
Basically what he explained was to create a label of the size and text required using Zebra Designer which is a free download. Then save this as a file using the PRN extension in Designer. This gives a text file and the various ZPL commands to communicate with printer and format its output. By using dummy data where I wanted results printed inspection of the code showed where to 'split it up' and then using text boxes and concaternate strings function rebuilt the code so it coul dbe exectuted in Labview. I have attache an image of code that I am using, looks messy but it works.
The next step was to use NI Visa Driver Wizard to identify the zebra USB printer which was already plugged in with its Zebra windows drivers installed. Using the wizard you get the product ID and vendor ID for the printer and can let then the wizard create a driver for you.
However, . . . windows 10 would not allow installation of the device driver created by NI-VISA because it did not have a digital signature. At the moment, this is a huge issue for me since I do not have a certification to "sign" drivers.
I tried entering all the required information according to NI help for USB RAW, but always get the error "Insufficient location information or the device or resource is not present in the system." A search of the error code did not yield any helpful information.
At the moment all of our cllients are running Windows 7 pro and with no digital siganture required there has been no problems with using the creation tool with NI Visa, so no idea about Windows 10 I am afraid .
That said though it will become a problem in the future because a couple of our customers are thinking about moving to Windows 10 so glad you have highlighted it and hope there is a solution out there...........
I have a client that I designed a 3" wide by 2" high label to printer on a Zebra printer. When the report is renedered to the screen, the report looks correct. However, when the report is sent to the zebra printer, it seems that the printer or something is rotating the entire report 90 degrees to the right. Has anyone else experienced this issue and if so, did you find a solution.
I am trying to print a simple product label. The label is 4" wide x 2.5" high. There is 1 label column across and 1 label row per page. Basically, the physical page size is 4" wide x 2.5" high. This is a 1/8" gap between each lable, and the thermal printer recognizes this to start a align as the start of a 'new page'.
Within Reporting Services / Visual Studio, the on-screen preview looks fine and it's showing one label per pdf page in file but when I am feeding this file to Intermec EasyCoder PD42 printer , alignment is not proper i.e. the data stops on the 1st physical page at the 2" wide spot, when it should be printing all across to 4.5".
I was actually able to fix this issue. My client has a Zebra GK420t with 4x3" labels. I finally set the printer properties to 4X6" paper. I then set my SSRS report to 4"6 but only included data elements on the top 3" of the SSRS report. The result was the printer printed correctly with no second page. My guess is SSRS sees that the second page.
Did you ever come up with a good solution to this? I'd like to be able to print labels to a networked zebra printer from one of my powerapps, but can't figure out how to set up the power automate flow to send ZPL.
No worries. The gateway suggestion was helpful. I've not used barTender before. Hoping to make this work with the free version. If not, I may explore a Windows Task Scheduler/PowerShell solution to print ZPL files.
@Anonymous thanks for the guidance here! Can you provide some additional information on the use of Bartender? Does it's free version support automated printing from a network location or is this a premium feature?
I also want to print labels or multiple labels ( Zebra printers ) based on entered data using power apps or power automated desktop or combination but can not findout how. I'm a bit new in these power apps so some guidance would be good.
Currently I have created this label in Excel ,so I could use power automate to fill the data,build the lookups in the label ,but not sure how I could control the signs that need to be on the label.AS I don't know how I could control the signs on the label with power automate.
I also need to have the option that in case some product are selected it would need to print 2 or 3 other labels with information that I need to enter. I saw that Power apps can only print once at the time so not sure if power apps is the best option and only left with power automate
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