I have a ZEBRA ZT411 label printer. I had a 203dpi printhead and changed it to 300dpi. I installed the ZT411 300dpi ZPL driver. The printer is now incorrectly calibrating the label. It doesn't push it to the edge so I can tear it off, but it's still tucked inside. It only prints on the bottom of the label. In size 40mm. The size of the label is larger. I've tried everything. Where is the mistake of how this could be changed?
I don't think that's an issue with the label because in that case, you would only have a smaller printout, but no calibration issues.
If you change the printhead with a different resolution, you also need to replace the pulley and the belt because the amount of paper the printer will push when you print a 203 dpi label and a 300 dpi label, is different.
Check here, page 2: you'll see the printhead part number (P1058930-013) which is the one you've used and the conversion kit (P1058930-022) which include the printhead, but also the mentioned pulley and belt, and that's the one you need.
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Consider the below ZPL code.
^XA
^BY2,2,80
^FO50,50^BCR^FD3079+Plate-SS-14 # 44^FS
^XZ
Using the online viewer at http://labelary.com/viewer.html shows you vertically rotated bar code with label beneath and everything appears to be fine.
However, when I print the label the bar code is not scan-able because the lines of the bar code are too thick (see below images). Removing the rotate flag from ^BCR and making it ^BC fixes the issue and the lines are perfectly normal and scan-able. I have tried numerous different methods to rotate the code with no success and can't wrap my head around as to why the lines become thicker when rotating a bar code.
Does anyone have any insight as to why this happens?
Broken Rotated Barcode Image
Working (not rotated) Barcode Image
In my case, the solution was the printing speed being too fast. Another potential solution would be to turn down the darkness or temperature of the printer itself if it's an option in the settings.
Simply opening my respective zebra printer's printing preferences showed me a Print Speed setting which was set to 12.7 cm/s. Reducing it down to 10.1 cm/s fixed the problem.
Adjust the Darkness of the printing and/or the speed of the printing. that should solve your problem.
I think it is a problem with your use of the PNG file that the site generates. The PNG file generated includes enough whitespace in the front (top) quiet zone of the symbol to scan, but if you use the Windows system viewer to print the barcode and print in full size, it slices off the top-most bars.
Try embedding the PNG file into a document, setting the photo size to less than full page, or use the PDF file.
I have a problem with bar codes on labels. I have two Zebra printers ZTC ZM600-200dpi ZPL(unreadable code) and ZTC ZT420-300dpi. The problem is that one of them prints for long barcodes, which then can not be scanned by a scanner (screen). What may be the problem, I tried to compare the settings. I changed to identical and nothing. How to change barcode size?
The problem is that one of them prints for long barcodes
Do you mean the barcode length is too long and getting cropped/cut-off and that is why it is not scannable?
What software is generating the ZPL? And what values are being set with ^BY, which controls the module width of barcodes? Since the 300dpi label is readable, it sounds like you need to reduce the module width set by ^BY for the 200dpi label.
I am having issues with consistency of text alignment printing ZPL between official Zebra hardware and a Citizen CL-S521 (and presumably other Citizen models).
I have a label with 270 degree rotation on some fields that need to be left-aligned, yet the printer is outputting them right aligned. Equally I have some text blocks that are supposed to be right aligned, but are printing left aligned, with an incorrect field origin.
Examples:
^FWB,0
^FO40,570,0^A0,23,24^TBB,450,25FH\^FDThis should be left aligned^FS
And:
^FT790,504,1^A0N,31,31^TBN,90,31^FH\^FDThis should be right aligned^FS
Using an online ZPL viewer and other ZPL-compatible printers, this outputs correctly, just not on the Citizen models.
If anyone else has had a similar issue and resolved it I would be grateful to understand how.
If anyone else comes across this problem, I solved it using the ^FB Field Block command instead of ^TB Text Block, despite the Zebra ZPLII guide advising against this.
Citizen support confirmed their printers do not support the ^TB command at the moment.
Please Help! I'm trying to print to a 1.5"x1.0" label on a Zebra ZP 450. The printer is connect to a Mac. When I print the label the printout is way over to the left. Only as small part of the bar code print out on the left side of the label. I'm guessing this is cause by the 'left position' in the printer settings. I tried calibrate (two flash and four flash) with no luck. I tried using zebrasetuputil app also with no luck (don't may not know enough of the programming to write it correctly).
Is there a terminal command I could use to change the default left position setting within the printer?
Sorry I'm new to all of this. Any help would be great!
OSX 10.11.1
Zebra ZP 450
Label Size: 1.5"x1.0"
Send this command to the printer:
^XA^LS0^XZ
^XA Starts the format (always required)
^LSa sets the offset where a = offset
^XZ End format (always required)
See the ZPL Programming Guide
Additionally, there is a command you can set to prevent other labels from setting these offsets. (Sorry, don't know off the top of my head) It's a very good idea because ideally these offset should only be used for printers that are exhibiting wear, and need an offset to account for physical differences.
Using it for label formats will cause all sorts of problems with label formats that don't set it, because the labels that do set it will cause the ones that don't to be offset.
I'm trying to print a postscript file to a Dymo LabelWriter (tried a LabelWriter 450 and LabelWriter 330-Turbo), i'm getting it trough ok, but the margin seems to be way to high, 1/3 of the label isn't printable (see pic, the black square is supposed to cover the entire label over the width).
The label is 89mm on 39mm (so 252pt x 123pt)
I'm using a boundig box of 8 8 252 123 and the page orientation is set to portrait.
I even tested it with an eps-file generated from Gimp, it leaves the same area blank.
anyone has an idea why it isn't printing correctly?
EDIT:
The file can be viewed here : http://pastebin.com/c7YC5ftb
The command I use to print it on a Dymo LabelWriter is:
C:\ps\gswin32c.exe -sDEVICE=mswinpr2 -dNoCancel -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sOutputFile="%%printer%%DYMO LabelWriter 450" -q "C:\ps\dymo.ps" -c quit
Not without seeing the PostScript file, no. I don't see from the Dymo web site that the printer accepts PostScript input, so how are you sending the PostScript file to it ?
Added in response to edits in the question.
Well its not absolutely clear to me what you expect this to look like.
Your original comment refers to a black square, but the PostScript doesn't contain a black square, it draws a rectangle with an aspect ratio of 20:1. You have set the media up to be wider than it is long (252,123) but you then use the Orientation to rotate the content by 270 degrees. Its true this is portrait, but upside down. If you want portrait why not just set the media to be portrait ?
Simply put the origin is the corner directly above your thumb in the photograph, and I think the long and short sides of the print are reversed with respect to the actual label.
Note that the BoundingBox comment is a comment and is ignored by the PostScript interpreter so changing it has no effect.
Perhaps if you could explain what you are trying to achieve ?
Problem is solved, the printer wasn't set to accept this type of labels
If you ever have this problem go the advanced settings of your printer driver and set the label.