This might be a bit more than you want, but in the long
run, may solve your needs better.
What if you imbed you own psudocode, tag like into the
text you want printed. (ie. x=###,y=###,size=###,font=xxx)
then write a subroutine (once), that will convert your
psudeocode to the specific printer's
We use Zebra printers. However, the output needs to be in ZPL language. Im
not sure that you will escape the 'control' characters altogether. You will
at minimum need to put characters around the barcode themselves if the need
arises. I've never tried sending plain ascii text to them, so Im
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Friends,
I really have no time for any development, however small, on this. Too many other
higher priority projects on my list. These printers are used by many people, however
infrequently, so having the printer attached and driven from a single workstation is
not attractive, though I might
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Friends,
I really have no time for any development, however small, on
this. Too many other higher priority projects on my list
George,
And maybe I can get the fellow what wants to get the new printers to do the work!
He's our Solaris guy, but I don't think his strength is in printers.
I suspect, though, that we'd take more than 15 minutes to figure out what command
sequences to send. :)
Also, Solaris uses System V
I've purchased many Prodigy DataMax label printers (4x6 UPS or smaller) from
Ebay for around $80-$150 each over the last few years. The replacement heads
alone are $280 new.
The PCL (sic) is pretty straightforward. It isn't WYSIWYG but debugable.
These printers have all the bar code fonts
