We're using Zebra printers also, and you cannot send plain ASCII text to them.
We've recently purchases some IBM A-3300 printers, they may take plain ascii
text. I'm not sure though.
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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 not sure
if they work that way. The programming language is not bad at all - very
easily done really (2 hours of messing around and you will probably have it
down). If you want to be able to print various fonts and sizes, I don't
know how you will escape the 'codes'. Even it you find one that understands
postscript, you still have to convert text to postscript.
Anthony Dzikiewicz
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Hello,
I'm running UniData 5.2.15 on AIX 4.3.2 but will be going to UniData 6.0.9
on Solaris 2.8. We have two stand alone Epson LX300+ 9 pin dot matrix
printers we use to print labels. They are defined as generic (ASCII)
devices. The printers are old and the output is acceptable, at best.
I'd like to replace the printers with label printers that will print on peel
off labels of roll stock. These printers generally come with Windows
drivers but Unix drivers seem to be lacking. Some of the higher end
printers come with a programming manual that would allow me to write code to
send control sequences to the printer and control everything. I've done
that before but I'd rather not take the time to do that if I can simply
attach a printer, either to the network or a serial connection, load a
driver and create a queue, and then simply send my few lines of text to the
print queue and get a label. Bar code would be nice but is not mandatory.
I'm sure that we are just not looking in the right place or closely enough.
We are not printing high volumes of labels so less expensive is better. Any
suggestions?
Thanks, Karjala
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