ZPL is much nicer to program with than Eltron's language since you don't have to worry about quotes and slashes, but you have to pay a lot more for that firmware. My only complaint with Zebra is the limit of font sizes with the factory memory. Sometimes you find yourself with a really big.. or really small font instead of right in between. Also, make sure your clients know that you can _not_ change printers if the new printer does not have the same DPI print head as the old one. I found that out first hand and had to redo my entire warehouse labeling system after spending 2K+ on a 300DPI Z4M. It was worthwhile for the speed, but general text/code printing is not any better @ 300DPI versus 150DPI.
I also use the GNU barcode program that generates postscript barcodes. I posted a PickBASIC barcode tool that uses it, on MV Dev Central's snippets. It's a nice addition to any barcoding tool kit. If you'd like a win32 binary, I'll compile a command-line app for you. You can take that barcode PS chunk and use it as an image object with the HTML2PS Perl script, to generate barcoded postscript documents from HTML. Are the PDAs going to be wireless terminals? Glen > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Barry Brevik > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 7:30 PM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: RE: [U2] [UV] send data to IP address? > > > > Don't make it so complicated! > > Believe me, I'm trying to keep it simple! > > I was handed a box of software named BarTender and told to > install it on all > of the clients that would be printing bardcode labels. So I said > to myself, > 'Self, we must be getting something for our $1400', and sure > enough, all of > the barcode symbologies are embedded in the printer already. So > I'm thinking > that this is the way to go, especially since they want to eventually print > these off of PDA's. > > Barry > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
