Zebra Zq520 Drivers

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Shu Manwill

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Aug 3, 2024, 2:03:37 PM8/3/24

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I'm running into an issue with a Zebra printer model ZT410-203dpi ZPL on SUSE Linux v15SP1 configured with CUPS. The printer has been configured but it can't seem to print for some reason. I used the zebra.ppd driver from GitHub as Zebra doesn't provide their own drivers, which are supposed to work with CUPS. With zebra.ppd at least it says 'Rendering completed' whereas with Generic driver it would just say Printing. I tried various drivers listed below, but it doesn't work either.
Any thoughts?

We have in the past had some questions come up about Zebra printers and Linux, the most recent of which can be found here. It may be worth taking a look and seeing if anything on that topic is helpful. If not, then by all means come back to us and we can take things from there.

The link provided me further information about ZPL printing. However, I'm trying to setup CUPS for remote printing over the network. The way this is setup is, the SAP application which creates and sends a printing label to SUSE Linux host configured with CUPS which processes the job and forwards it to a configured Zebra printer over the network. The printer is expected to print but it is not. Moreover, there are no errors in /var/log/cups/error_log even with debug mode.

These printers are setup to use 9100 which is a default port for socket type of connection. I also tried using 6101 and it doesn't work. As can be noticed there is communication if using port 6101. I might have to check locally on the printer to see if there is an option to update the port to 6101 or the network team to see if anything needs to be opened up for 6101. Either way I think I should still be able to use socket type of configuration using its default port of 9100.

I tried printing using different ZPL commands earlier. I gave your suggestion a try along with printing a PDF page and I'm waiting on someone to validate the print as the printer is at a remote location.

Thank you @bdittmar and everyone for their response. I'm able to print the label directly from SUSE Linux server running CUPS.
Thanks once again @bdittmar for pointing me in the right direction. The issue for direct print from the server had to do with the way the Zebra printers receives the print job. Since this Zebra printer is used to print labels, it needs to have an embedded ZPL (Zebra Printing Language) format in the file to create images that can be printed on the labels.

One of the requirements in my project was to print Labels on Zebra printers. The labels were designed using Smartforms. For which I faced some challenges and could not find detailed solution document online

Hi All, This document explains the ways to configure Zebra label Printer in your SAP System. Step by step instructions are given to ease the configuration process. Zebra Printers are mostly used to have