[CentOS] [OT] Label Printer Recommendations

Sat Aug 28 13:28:00 UTC 2010
Chris Geldenhuis <chris.gelden at iafrica.com>

cornel panceac wrote:
>
>
> 2010/8/28 Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org <mailto:hakan at 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.
>
> -- 
> Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall, there was this one: "Matters 
> of great concern should be treated lightly." Master Ittei commented, 
> "Matters of small concern should be treated seriously."
> (Ghost Dog : The Way of The Samurai)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>   
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