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Richard Deeming2-Sep-20 5:23

Richard Deeming

2-Sep-20 5:23

Labelary have a pretty decent online viewer[^] and a web service[^] to generate an image from a ZPL string, if it helps. Smile | :)

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Gerry Schmitz2-Sep-20 5:52

Gerry Schmitz

2-Sep-20 5:52

These printers usually support printing an image: compose a visual in WPF and send that.

That's how you print shipping labels from postal carriers (you retrieve an image from them via an account).

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Dan Neely2-Sep-20 6:02

Dan Neely

2-Sep-20 6:02

Gerry Schmitz wrote:
These printers usually support printing an image: compose a visual in WPF and send that.

I've done similar with other label printers in UWP, and receipt printers in WPF. OTOH I've also had to print to receipt printers that were pure text only line printers; those you I did need to insert magic characters into the string sequence to make some things work. That was one part of the project I absolutely don't miss. Dead | X|

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Stefan_Lang2-Sep-20 6:10

Stefan_Lang

2-Sep-20 6:10

Doesn't look so hard. I have no idea about Zebra, but by my educated guessing I'd say ^XA and ^XZ enclose the document to be printed, and ^FD and ^FS enclose a single string to be printed. The rest probably indicates stuff like the font to be used and it's properties, such as size and style.

I've seen worse. *shrug*

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PIEBALDconsult2-Sep-20 6:34

PIEBALDconsult

2-Sep-20 6:34

:yawn:

How about programming for DEC LA-120 printers? And storing the codes in the SYSDEVCTL library?

Rick York2-Sep-20 7:11

Rick York

2-Sep-20 7:11

Don't they have drivers? That's why the concept of a printer driver was invented - so you don't have to send a different set of bytes to each device to get it to output text for you.

This is a rhetorical question. Obviously they don't or you wouldn't have this headache.

However, you might find that someone has written some code to simplify this. I don't even want to start down that rabbit hole. I have enough weirdness going on.

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User 110609792-Sep-20 8:40

User 11060979

2-Sep-20 8:40

Never had a problem with Zebra Printer. Simply installed it on windows and used the standard printer forms to print the labels Confused | :confused:

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CPallini2-Sep-20 20:17

CPallini

2-Sep-20 20:17

Sander Rossel wrote:
I don't think I'm prepared for this

Because you didn't read Don Quixote. Big Grin | :-D

Marc Clifton3-Sep-20 3:22

Marc Clifton

3-Sep-20 3:22

I think the last time I worked on a Zebra printer (or something that looks similar to what you posted) was around the 1980's when I was writing a custom print routine on a Commodore 64!

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obermd3-Sep-20 4:15

obermd

3-Sep-20 4:15

I had to print to these beasts for a while. What a pain.

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Member 132567503-Sep-20 6:17

Member 13256750

3-Sep-20 6:17

Label printers are the bane of our existence. Every manufacturer has their own proprietary printer language.

You would think that in today's world they'd all be using Postscript.

There's a lot of off the shelf software that will take a label design and generate the correct instructions for the label printer.

What are you trying to do that requires you to dive into the coding of the label?

honey the codewitch2-Sep-20 2:45

2-Sep-20 2:45

MFW I devote a huge amount of effort to create a developer tool that is poorly understood and not really used despite being very useful for what they were designed to do. 😔

I've tried to simplify my project, and simplify describing that project but it's like trying to simplify Roslyn. There's just too much there to be able to make it simple.

Oh well, I guess. I use it in my own code generation projects and it makes them heckin cool. Cool | :cool:

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CPallini2-Sep-20 3:12

CPallini

2-Sep-20 3:12

Nah, I just write broken trivial tools thant no one will ever use. Big Grin | :-D

honey the codewitch2-Sep-20 3:24

2-Sep-20 3:24

I said non-trivial because I think most people have written little one-offs to accomplish a specific task

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charlieg2-Sep-20 3:51

charlieg

2-Sep-20 3:51

yeah going to up vote that Laugh | :laugh:

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter2-Sep-20 3:14

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

2-Sep-20 3:14

Oh yeah!
I have them too... Code generators, page designers, data randomizers... All for in-house use only...

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honey the codewitch2-Sep-20 3:25

2-Sep-20 3:25

See, you're smarter than me because you're doing it for money. Big Grin | :-D

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W∴ Balboos, GHB2-Sep-20 3:32

W∴ Balboos, GHB

2-Sep-20 3:32

If you check my bio page[^], third paragraph, it clarifies you post (maybe?).

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RandMan75573-Sep-20 4:42

RandMan7557

3-Sep-20 4:42

I like the cheap hooker analogy!

PIEBALDconsult2-Sep-20 3:22

PIEBALDconsult

2-Sep-20 3:22

Yes.

Ron Anders2-Sep-20 3:33

Ron Anders

2-Sep-20 3:33

I wrote a grandiose control surface plug for Sonar (DAW) that would chain up to five BCR2000s across like a big old mixer but it took too long and the device targeted, and the concept, are obsolete so it's just an in house thing now that not even I use.

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honey the codewitch2-Sep-20 3:40

2-Sep-20 3:40

Not to start DAW wars or anything but FL Studio lets you build dashes like that with no coding. Just sayin'

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Ron Anders2-Sep-20 9:28

Ron Anders

2-Sep-20 9:28

What's a dashes?

honey the codewitch2-Sep-20 10:01

2-Sep-20 10:01

midi controller dashboards for instruments. Panels you can control or link to other controllers. They have different ones for different instruments. At least i think you and i are talking about the same thing, but since we each use different DAWs (and FL is a bit weird) we may be using different jargon

i've never actually described one before. $Shucks | :-\$

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