In a former life we used the following technique for our Zebra printer.
1) Configure the printer as a basic character printer such as a model 3812.
2) Create a spool file which contains the ZPL code and your data in plain text.
3) Close the spool file.
One advantage of this technique is testing. You can copy your spool file to a DB2 file, edit it, then copy it back to a print file. Once the label is printing correctly, incorporate the ZPL codes into your program.
Check out TL Ashford. They have a package for designing and printing labels on such printers.
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