My team has several apps that use the Zebra Network Driver to call a few different printers over the WiFi - thus far, all these apps have been run on Windows. Recently, the mfg. team purchased a few iPads to use as Tulip stations, but we quickly discovered that the printing triggers would not work. Looking at the page for the Network Driver, the driver is only available on Windows. Is there any solution to get around this issue or are we out of luck?
You can setup one Windows PC running player and leave it running somewhere near the zebra printer. Then the app triggers can be changed to "Run device function Zebra Network Printer at (instead of At this Station)
Just purchased the Zebra ZD410 and am at a complete loss as to how to set it up with my Macbook. I'm running Mac OS X. When I am on the Zebra site, there are drivers for Windows. Has anyone installed this label printer running a Mac?
2) I cannot print from the iPad through the zebra set up utilities app. It is not working and the Bluetooth connectivity is not very strong. How do I reliably connect square apple and the ZD410 for these barcodes?
Hey @Artofthesock! Take a look at the Best Answer on this thread. Hopefully this helps. Feel free to tag any of the sellers you see above if you have additional questions on the set up. I'm sure they'd be able to help even more since they've gone through the ZD410 setup!
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...........
We have a Label printer it's an Intermec PF8t that we are sharing over network. The Label printer is connected USB to a Windows XP machine and that machine serves as the printer server. The printer is shared over a TCP/IP port.
On the other end of the chain I got a user on a windows 7 64 bit machine that I want to connect to the Label printer. That was done successfully by going to start button, devices and printers, add printer, and adding the shared label printer from there.
Right now as temporary fix we just click disable and the user can prints his labels no problem. But this error is starting to get really annoying. Since my user can print successfully I was wondering if there wouldn't be a way to possibly disable that error message, either by disabling a not needed service or even through registry or anything I just don't want this error popping for my user anymore.
I had the same problem with a Datamax-O'Neil label printer that's connected via Ethernet and hosted off a Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 (print server), and I resolved the issue using the following steps:
I'm having the same thing happen. I'm sharing a Zebra label printer connected to a Windows 7 machine with a computer running Vista. I also got the message about disabling network features. I clicked to disable and I have not received the message again, the other user can print just fine.I think it has something to do with security because some printer options are disabled. This is actually good because I don't want the user to mess up any of the advanced printer settings. In the printer properties window, under the security tab, you can control who can print and who can also manage the printer.
I have found if you put the driver on the computer that the printer is not connected to ie:printer is connected to windows 64 bit machine and the computer you want to share it with is Vista 32 bit, you will need to add the 32 bit driver to the "additional drivers" box then connect to the printer on the vista machine that fixed the same error I read here
I am facing an issue while setting up the Zebra Printer. I have set it up with the Spool access Method as 'S' and the Device type as LB_ZEB2. We have connected the printer via USB to a local windows desktop and have installed the device driver in the desktop. However when I try to do a print it gives an error saying ' Unable to reach remote host spool system '. in SP01 the error is as follows ' Printer not accessible'. If I change the Access method to 'L' it gives me the error message as below;
1. First there are two different ways of setting up Zebra printers depending on whether you are using a SMARTform or SAPScript. Depending on which method you use, you need to set up and install the device types and device drivers. The Device type also depends on the Zebra printer model.
Also ensure that the windows system has shared the printer and that you have SAPSprint installed on that Windows system (if you have not heard of SAPSprint, search the there is a document that shows a step by step with screenshots of how to get it working).
Many Thanks for your reply. I installed SAPSprint on the windows machine where the printer is connected. I shared the Zebra printer in the windows machine and changed the access method to C in SPAD. However now the error message in SP01 reads as " Waiting - Internal error when printing " . The screesn is as below;
Also does the label look correct if you print preview it from SP01? Also keep in mind that if it trying to use a DINA format for the page, this could be why the Zebra/Windows side is reject the print as the page dimensions are possibly too large for the Zebra output.
Print preview is coming up but we also have realised that the size may be too large. Also I believe we need to use Bar One code for creating the ITF files. The developer team was using a different format.
SWIN as a device type is not an ideal situation, your development team may need to have special functions setup on a device type; think of a check printer referencing MICR commands for special fonts and a signature in secure storage.
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