Greetings Folks, I am after any recommendations or experiences using Label printers to print barcodes with CentOS, we currently using Star TSP700's but they're not clear enough for the scanners we have. There seems to be plenty of choice but not much Linux support going on, 'Never had anyone ask for Linux drivers before..' seems to be the most common answer when trying to buy. I have also tried a Brother P-Touch QL-550 but can't seem to get that to print at all using the Foomatic drivers available online.
TIA
Colin.
On 28 August 2010 12:52, Colin Coles colin@wemoto.com wrote:
I am after any recommendations or experiences using Label printers to print barcodes with CentOS, we currently using Star TSP700's but they're not clear enough for the scanners we have. There seems to be plenty of choice but not much Linux support going on, 'Never had anyone ask for Linux drivers before..' seems to be the most common answer when trying to buy. I have also tried a Brother P-Touch QL-550 but can't seem to get that to print at all using the Foomatic drivers available online.
Zebra printers work for us but we generate ZPL output ourselves and a raw queue is good enough for our purposes. I have to say the CUPS in CentOS5/Upstream is not very good at printing to Zebra printers using ZPL. More upto date CUPS does a better job, I had more success with latest SLES and Ubuntu compared to CentOS/upstream.
2010/8/28 Hakan Koseoglu hakan@koseoglu.org
Zebra printers work for us but we generate ZPL output ourselves and a raw queue is good enough for our purposes. I have to say the CUPS in CentOS5/Upstream is not very good at printing to Zebra printers using ZPL. More upto date CUPS does a better job, I had more success with latest SLES and Ubuntu compared to CentOS/upstream.
how do you generate the ZPL output please? i have at work some zebras and i'd like to experiment better ways to use them.
cornel panceac wrote:
2010/8/28 Hakan Koseoglu <hakan@koseoglu.org mailto:hakan@koseoglu.org>
Zebra printers work for us but we generate ZPL output ourselves and a raw queue is good enough for our purposes. I have to say the CUPS in CentOS5/Upstream is not very good at printing to Zebra printers using ZPL. More upto date CUPS does a better job, I had more success with latest SLES and Ubuntu compared to CentOS/upstream.how do you generate the ZPL output please? i have at work some zebras and i'd like to experiment better ways to use them.
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Read the printer's manual and work out the character strings required to genarate the label size, coding etc that you require and then code a program or script to produce that. I do not have the manual with me at present so cannot be more specific.
ChrisG
2010/8/28 Chris Geldenhuis chris.gelden@iafrica.com
Read the printer's manual and work out the character strings required to genarate the label size, coding etc that you require and then code a program or script to produce that. I do not have the manual with me at present so cannot be more specific.
ChrisG
thank you very much! i'll start reading monday.
Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
On 28 August 2010 12:52, Colin Coles colin@wemoto.com wrote:
I am after any recommendations or experiences using Label printers to print barcodes with CentOS, we currently using Star TSP700's but they're not clear enough for the scanners we have. There seems to be plenty of choice but not much Linux support going on, 'Never had anyone ask for Linux drivers before..' seems to be the most common answer when trying to buy. I have also tried a Brother P-Touch QL-550 but can't seem to get that to print at all using the Foomatic drivers available online.
Zebra printers work for us but we generate ZPL output ourselves and a raw queue is good enough for our purposes. I have to say the CUPS in CentOS5/Upstream is not very good at printing to Zebra printers using ZPL. More upto date CUPS does a better job, I had more success with latest SLES and Ubuntu compared to CentOS/upstream.
We also use Zebra printers, they produce a high quality bar code. We also generate the ZPL output and print using a raw print queue.
ChrisG
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