Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to all that came to our August meeting. > > We recently changed the way a customer generates labels on a Zebra > printer. We moved away from the proprietary ZPL arrangement because > we > wanted to pull data directly from our database rather than having to > rebuild a ZPL label format. No we didn't write a program to generate > the ZPL. We have an process that builds PDF files that we then print > in > all manner of places, now including labels. This arrangement is great > > when the prints (of any kind) are unique one to the next. > > Our problem is with the customer that prints 100 or 300 of the same > label. (yeah, I know, there is a point at which having the labels > printed by a print shop is cheaper.) Because we are now driving this > print from our server, one at a time, the print process takes forever. > > If the printer is paused, the prints queue up such that when the > printer > is resumed, a stack print out quickly. > > Any thoughts on how to tune a network printer's "inter-record gap?" > > Howard >
At this point, I am somewhat confused. You are complaining that it takes a long time to generate and print 300 labels, but you are also complaining that, if the printer is paused, the print jobs queue up, and then come out in rapid succession once the printer is put back on line. So, you are asking how to make the generation of the labels take even longer, so that there won't be a queue of print jobs waiting? Your goals contradict each other. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
