Printing a label through a Zebra Printer

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Post Author: sherzog

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Is it possible to create a report that can be printed by a zebra printer? We print our shipping labels with a zebra printer and would like to update the system to use CR instead of hardcoding the printer commands. If it is possible, how do you setup the report to be the right size so that it prints out correctly? Any help would be appreciated. Using CR XI Developer edition integrated into J++ (soon to be C#) against a Progress 8.3e database, let me know if you need further information.

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Post Author: debmilner

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Since we always use the printer drivers when creating labels, I don't know how it would work when sending the text string. Sorry

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Post Author: sherzog

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The only issue on our end, though, is that we use a generic/text driver, not the actual Zebra drivers. We do this so we can send, basically, a text file with all of the commands on it to print the label, and then it converts it to a label. If we switch over to using CR for all labels, though, we could probably upgrade it to the actual zebra driver. Is there any to do it with the generic/text driver? I looked at all possibilities doing that and it didn't have what I needed.

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Post Author: debmilner

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Have the Zebra printer set as the default printer when opening the report, then select the correct paper / stock size in the Printer settings in the Page Setup screen. If using Seagull drivers, be careful, Crystal looks at the identity, not the stock name.

In your code, when calling the report, there is a method to use to have the report use the printer's settings for stock size.