Comments on: Printing to a Zebra 160S

By: Beverly

Beverly — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:40:55 +0000

Thanks to all for the help. It’s a little more cumbersome than I was hoping for, but things aren’t always as easy as we would hope:))

By: bigmac46

bigmac46 — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:12:28 +0000

This is a sample of 160S print stream created a AS400spool file and used to print a 1X3 label. You can be creative and print about anything a zebra can print. ZPLII programming guide from zebra is helpful. Label follows. >XA>POI>LH225,5 >FO10,10>ADN,30,10>FV29182200 >FS >FO200,05>A0,75,80>FVXXXX3745>FS >FO25,65>A0,40,30>FVITEM DESCRIPTIONTOR 120AX >FS >FO100,105,>BY2>B3N,N,075,N,N>FVPOSMG3745>FS>XZ The label contains placement, font, rotation, and variable to be printed. You must send printer a command(1 time) to use the '>' as a control character. This was also created and sent to printer as AS400 spoolfile. ~XA~CC>~XZ send this one time and printer holds it until you change it... The printer does it's on conversion of data it receives and prints it. Hope this will work for you. We do thousands every day of all different sizes and configurations.

By: MichaelFS

MichaelFS — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:47:00 +0000

The trick may be to add printer control language characters to your print file generation as suggested by using the logical not commands from the Ashford software. The pcl used to be called ZPLII but I couldn’t find your printer model on the Zebra website to verify that. Happy to send you an example of a print file definition that we used if you wish.