Anyone know anything about printing to zebra printers?

[KLin]

We're creating a receipt report for a mobile app to a zebra mz320(over bluetooth). Is there a way to take the raw CPCL output that would get sent to the printer and preview how the receipt is going to look without having to print it to paper and waste it? Thanks. 🙂

 

[WannaFly]

KLin, I have some experience with it - we use Zebra QL320 over bluetooth. BUT, I used ZPL I believe...It's been a while.

They have a program called Zebra Label designer that will allow you to design a label and save to to a file that contains CPCL/ZPL I believe. I tried it but it was aggravating so I just tested manually reprinting the receipt 100s of times.

I also recently used som GX420s over USB and did the same thing, since thats how I was familiar with it. Thankfully in both cases what I was printing was pretty simple.

 

[KLin]

KLin, I have some experience with it - we use Zebra QL320 over bluetooth. BUT, I used ZPL I believe...It's been a while.

They have a program called Zebra Label designer that will allow you to design a label and save to to a file that contains CPCL/ZPL I believe. I tried it but it was aggravating so I just tested manually reprinting the receipt 100s of times.

I also recently used som GX420s over USB and did the same thing, since thats how I was familiar with it. Thankfully in both cases what I was printing was pretty simple.

Thanks for the info. We actually figured this out earlier today by taking the printer output saved in a file, and opening it up using Label Vista. We were then able to design the label the way we wanted, then used the output as a template in our mobile app.

We're printing to a MZ320 over bluetooth. 🙂

 

[KLin]

KLin, I have some experience with it - we use Zebra QL320 over bluetooth. BUT, I used ZPL I believe...It's been a while.

They have a program called Zebra Label designer that will allow you to design a label and save to to a file that contains CPCL/ZPL I believe. I tried it but it was aggravating so I just tested manually reprinting the receipt 100s of times.

I also recently used som GX420s over USB and did the same thing, since thats how I was familiar with it. Thankfully in both cases what I was printing was pretty simple.

Question. How did you handle the port itself? We had an issue where the receipt was not printing, and it was due to the port closing before the string we were sending across the serial port was finished transmitting. We just added in a thread.sleep command for half a second, and that fixed the issue.

 

[WannaFly]

I dont remember having that problem, the problem I had was with the bluetooth/serial port timing out and disconnecting. At the time I had no way to check if the socket was open , but since then an SDK has been released that lets me.

 

[KLin]

I tried to find the zebra mobile printing SDK with no luck. I guess you need to sign up to be a development partner with Zebra to get access to that software.

 

[WannaFly]

KLin: Sorry, the SDK I was reffering to was provided by Symbol/Motorola, which is the company that makes the mobile devices I'm using.

The few times I talked to zebra about development issues they were completely useless.

 

[KLin]

KLin: Sorry, the SDK I was reffering to was provided by Symbol/Motorola, which is the company that makes the mobile devices I'm using.

The few times I talked to zebra about development issues they were completely useless.

lol yea their tech support is kind of crappy. Our client is going to be using the Symbol MC75 out in the field to track bins being filled with avocados. They lose quite a few bins per year at 300 bucks a pop. MC75 is a very nice device.

 

[WannaFly]

I've used 3 or 4 different predecessors to the MC75, and they have all gotten progressively better. MC75 is by far our best device yet. It's a combination of OS/Device features that makes it worth it.