I am a trying to print Shipping labels from a website to my TSC DA310 thermal printer. I have installed QZ tray locally, but my printer is printer Raw commands instead of the shipping label along with the barcode etc. Anyone else faced a similar issue?
Quoting the DA310 user's manual, this printer has a special "TSPL-EZD" firmware which emulates
"out of the box" the following label formats:
Eltron® EPL command emulation
Zebra® ZPL command emulation
Datamax® DPL command emulation
To quote the original symptom:
my printer is printer Raw commands instead of the shipping label along with the barcode etc.
Since all shipping providers provide commands in one of the above formats, this suggests that the vendor-provided driver may be interfering with the printing.
One way to bypass the driver is to change it from TSC DA310 to Generic / Text Only using Printer Properties, Advanced, New Driver.
Since this printer driver is provided by a 3rd party (at time of writing, a company called "Seagull Scientific") you may consider reaching out to Seagull Scientific with this particular problem. At time of writing this, te default driver does not seem to offer any configurable options regarding specifically to language emulation.
If all else fails, reach out to TSC technical support to see how to send raw label commands to their hardware.
TSC technical support will want to know which label format you are sending. To find out, see the following reference:
ZPL usually looks like this: ^XA ^FO ...
EPL usually looks like this: N q812 Q1218 B5 ... A310 ..
DPL usually looks like this: <STX>L D11
Lastly, for help using the TSC-series printers with QZ Tray (per qz-tray tag), you may reach out directly to support or ask a new question and link it here in the comments.
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I have a file located at C:\printme.txt
I want to print it to my printer which is named POS80
Is there not a simple command for windows in the command prompt to say Print C:\printme.txt to POS80?
It should be noted that POS80 is also the default printer so a command that does not include the printer name but just sends to the default printer would be acceptable too.
Your mileage can vary using the legacy command Print
It MAY work if you have a line printer set to LPT1 and worth trying
Print C:\printme.txt "POS80" However I expect you are getting the error message "Unable to initialize device PRN" that is not unusual as PRN was traditionally LPT1.
Later you say its USB connected. which means its serial (old Com ports) whereas Line Printer (old LPT ports) were parallel hence the potential needs for fettling, but in windows you can use the port name for the printer and that resolves ports issue (files can become ports or vice versa) thus no real problem.
Now you could try messing with printer port redirections to get around that but it would likely mess up other application printing. Thus by far the simplest is make the printer the default one which is what you have.
To avoid the Save Output File As dialog when adding a print job to the default queue, ensure that your default printer isn't Microsoft XPS Document Writer, Microsoft Print to PDF, or other print-to-file options.
So what is Windows 10 doing when you right click print? Generally it fires up the associated FTA (File Type Application) which for .txt (or similar chosen) is NotePad.
Thus the simplest way to command line print plain text is
NotePad /pt C:\printme.txt "POS80"
NotePad settings can be changed in the registry before and after you print, via the command line, even skewing letters (fun to prank colleagues if you use 1 degree off kilter), however you cannot set line spacing or add graphics, for those you need to step up to WordPad which will accept docx, rtf, odt and most simple text file types.
Several other file types can also be printed in a similar way such as graphics images, using mspaint.
Later you say you are sending html as text and want graphic output not textual.
So the x problem is the files are not plain.txt they are plain.htm so need translation from html by graphic conversion (rendering) to pass through a printer language converter (printer driver) That's a totally different question but the answer is still much the same.
Traditionally you would simply use
rundll32.exe mshtml.dll,PrintHTML "C:\printme.txt"
But security exploits have made that simplicity more of a challenge thus
best to run it like this.
cd /D C:\Windows\System32 & rundll32.exe mshtml.dll,PrintHTML "C:\printme.txt"
And Microsoft Current Policy is "User confirmation is needed to print an HTML page through MSHTML.DLL." thus you need to hit print using sendkeys.
If your preference is FireFox rendering, from the command line you needed to install an extension, however with tightened security in windows 10, I dont know if that's still possible.
If you wish to print xml or html graphically in windows 10+ you can ask Edge --headless to print those for you to PDF, either as screen shot or rendered text, silently without enforced html confirmation ! And again you can print html automatically by using sendkeys to replace the user.
However printing PDF from the command line is where the real fun begins.
It is possible if the PDF is the correct type prepared for the printer (even a simple thermal or inkjet) then an old school copy /b file.pdf "printer" may work but dont send a big file to test, just a tiny Hello World!, or your carbon neutrality is instantly wiped out by reams of paper with one or two letters each.
My dirt cheap HP accepts files that can be viewed as PDF that start textually like this i.e. which have the PCLm 1 comment.
%PDF-1.7
%PCLm 1.0%
223 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/Parent 2 0 R
/Resources <<
/XObject <<
/Image0 3 0 R
/Image1 4 0 R
For most POS printers a PDF either needs to be processed in middleware or usually top end firmware such as onboard Direct PDF
Thus we come back to using html bitmap and text directives that will either need a print driver or be programmed to a port or file for later copy /b to device.
As you no doubt know Microsoft have not made it simple to print file.html default in fact the opposite resulting in many third part apps for win xp-win 11 such as https://www.bersoft.com/htmlprint/index.htm#overview amongst many other options.
I have Zebra LP2824 printer. It is working properly on Windows XP, but It is not working properly on Windows 7. On windows 7 it prints the Test page on printer properties, but it is not printing in my application. It seems, that it can't find the port, the printer is using. On the same application, but on Windows XP it is printing. I am connecting the printer with USB.
Does anyone knows what seems to be the problem?
Thanks for help in advance. :)
I usually have to share the printer in order to get it to accept a print job. Sharing in Win 7 is a little different I think - there might more than one step. Open the printer queue and pause it, then send a print job to it - see if it shows up (then un-pause) If it doesn't show up in the queue, there might be a share/permissions problem.
I just managed it today to print on another zebra USB printer.
use this article : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322091/nl
Notice dough that the sample has a small error, so go to this function
public static bool SendFileToPrinter( string szPrinterName, string szFileName )
...
..
overthere go to then end of that function and add the line i mention below
Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(pBytes);
fs.close(); // <-- add that or it will crash with locked files errors.
return true;
How Zebra printers behave depends a lot on what you try to print, and how the program works
For example notepad and edlin and wordpad and dos PRINT can all work different.
Some programs print RAW directly (as the url code does), others pay some respect to the printer preferences > still dough a TXT file raw printed containing ZPL commands will overrule printer settings..
ZPL is a little nightmare in itself
If you need paper to be cut
You will need
^MMC
you wont find it explained like that in their manuals.
(because they sell their own label printing design software i think..)
I am trying to configure a Mac OS X print queue so that a script can do some processing on each file printed before forwarding it on to another CUPS printer (on the same host).
I have been reading up on CUPS and have found an article describing how to use lpadmin to configure a queue with a "System V style interface script", but the caveat is that such a queue is seen as a "Generic Printer". I presume that means the user looses all ability to choose paper trays, etc. when submitting a job from the Print dialog. Is that correct?
[That makes this approach undesirable for my purposes, because the final destination is a POS receipt printer with non-standard paper sizes and print job options for cutting the paper roll, opening the cash drawer, etc.]
Is there a better way to accomplish my goal, which is simply to run a script on each receipt printed through a particular CUPS print queue?
I believe you need to configure a cups filter, which I believe can be created for just about any printer. It basically works as an input/output filter - where you modify the job in flight.
anyway, here is a link I found that explains an approach to do so (although it is for a slightly different use case). hope it helps.
Programming a Filter/Backend to 'Print to PDF' with CUPS from any Mac OS X application
be well.
I know that this is an old topic for vfp programmers. Still, I want to ask for advices that can improve the printing time for my particular case.
I recently asked to change a report written in vfp. It use commands such as fputs, etc. The user prints this report in a dot matrix printer and of course : no problem. But the user asked for column addition and some complex calculation in the report. We tried to avoid paper size changes. So my initial solution was to rework the report using report designer, and set the page orientation to landscape. The result is so slow when printed.When I open the print queue, it even shows error - printing status!
I've tried to instal the printer driver in my local PC ( the machine where I compiled the exe) and selected this printer, both with 'save printer environment' checked and unchecked. Still the same result.
Any suggestions? Other tricks for my case are welcomed. Thanks in advance.
Sometimes, and not sure if its your case, when creating a report in VFP, it saves the printer environment based on the computer used to develop it (ie: your machine). To check, and since all reports are nothing but .DBF tables renamed, try the following. Open the report as a table
USE YourReport.frx (you have to explicitly include the .frx extension)
BROWSE
The first line in the report is your environment information that includes paper size info, orientation and even printer information. Double click in the column "Expr". The only things you probably need in this column are
ORIENTATION=1 (or 0)
it may have other stuff and look something like
DRIVER=winspool
DEVICE=\some\printershare
OUTPUT=IP_192.168.1.22
ORIENTATION=1
PAPERSIZE=1
SCALE=100
ASCII=0
COPIES=1
DEFAULTSOURCE=15
PRINTQUALITY=600
COLOR=2
DUPLEX=2
YRESOLUTION=600
TTOPTION=3
COLLATE=0
You can remove the rest of it. Next, close this column and tab over about 10 more columns to "Tag" and "Tag2". They are also MEMO type fields. Open them up. Remove ALL data out of these two columns... BUT ONLY FOR THE FIRST ROW!!!! If you open them, you would see more embedded stuff about the printer, just remove it completely. Do NOT do a global replace to blank for all rows as that will kill the report content... ONLY the first row.
All this being said, I can't guarantee, but it may be the culprit... but then again, doing direct output on old dot-matrix printers might actually be faster than all the fancy rendering the printer drivers are doing.
Trying to print a report from the report designer through the windows driver to a dotmatrix printer will never be acceptably quick.
That's why they originally did the report using commands.
Your choices are either change the printer to a laser printer (probably not possible I'm guessing) or change the report back to the old style.
It's hardly difficult to print fast on a dot matrix printer with VFP reports, you should do it on a raw mode, but not on ?? or ??? way, I mean on API calls like this:
--- RawPrint VCX ---
http://www.universalthread.com/ViewPageNewDownload.aspx?ID=9556
You can use a wrapper, with kind-of "Formats" support it's a commercial software but it's worthy if you need to do a lot of reports with this kind of printer:
--- DosPrint 4 ---
http://www.victorespina.com.ve/hs/es/index.php/DOSPrint4_%28VFP%29
(disclaimer: the developer of DosPrint 4 it's a friend of mine, and I worked with him testing and supporting on the previous version DosPrint 3 on the spanish MS-VFP newsgroups and http://Portalfox.com)
Try using the Microsoft Generic Text only print driver
Is there any software for the make which offers command line (or other scripting) utility to modify AudioUnit parameters?
The use case is this:
Default (Built-In) input
Attach better Gain Control
AudioUnit (the default OS-X gain
control is inadequate)
Attach L-R balance control (or
"pan")
Pass-through (link) to Default
Output a.k.a. LineIn.app
Script control of AudioUnit 2).
For a 0-100% volume control of the
input audio. In 1/16 increments
(6.5%) just like the main volume in
OS-X.
Script control of AudioUnit 3)
for L-R balance (pan) control.
The problem here for me is at steps 5 and 6.
Steps 1) through to 4) can be adequately achieved graphically in AudioHijackPro. The pass-through, and audio units can be created in there. It also comes with a really good gain control dial / knob. However all those effects are set exclusively through the GUI interface.
Desperately searching for a command-line tool (or "audiounit host") which can set the parameters values and send them to these audio units with the set parameter C api function(s).
Do any existing tools on the Mac offer this kind of functionality?
It sounds like you want Triumph. It can't be controlled from the command line but it is Applescript-able.
Spotify's Pedalbord is a Python library that can apply AU plugins:
https://github.com/spotify/pedalboard
With Fire, it's trivial to turn any Python script into a CLI tool:
https://github.com/google/python-fire