I am trying to print code 39 Barcode using zebra ZPL.
My Field Data is as follows :
^FDabc-def^etc..
Is there a command that will help skip the "-" in the Barcode?
I only need to print "abcdef" without the special character.
Thanks.
In the code generating the ZPL, do a substring-replace and replace “-“ with “”.
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I will not be able to convert this character line into "normal" text.
Can you translate it for me?
\ud835\ude83\ud835\ude98\ud835\ude9e\ud835\ude8f\ud835\ude95\ud835\ude9e\ud835\ude8f\ud835\ude8f\ud835\udea2 \ud83c\udf68
You can use an unicode 16 online translator like:
https://www.branah.com/unicode-converter
Can't print the label correctly. There is some extra spaces in the ZPL text field.
There are some spaces between the text fields in line 2 and line 4.
Please kindly help.
^XA^LL496
^PW711
^FT16,50^A0N,20,19^FDL-01,02,03^FS
^FT16,100^A0N,20,19^FDU-01,02,03^FS
^FT16,150^A0N,23,24^FDUSER ID:admin^FS
^FT16,200^A0N,23,24^FDPromise Date:02/15/16^FS
^FT16,250^A0N,23,24^FDDate of Request: 11/14/19 01:48PM^FS
^PQ1,0,1,Y^XZ
Result:
L-01,02,03
U- 01,02,03 <-- Extra space
USER ID:admin
Promise Date:02/15/16 <- Extra space here
Date of Request: 11/14/19 01:48PM
My Zebra printer : Zebra Z4Mplus 203DPI
I have found this message from internet :
http://support.efficientbi.com/knowledge-base/extra-spaces-in-label-text-appear-when-sending-zpl-commands-direct-to-windows-generic-printer-driver-zebra-problem/
"When testing sending ZPL print commands direct to a Zebra printer using Generic Windows print driver, it we noticed that sometimes extra spaces would appear in the sample label. After some research, it was determined that it appears the Generic Windows print driver will cause these extra spaces to be inserted when the ZPL code is sent WITHOUT CRLF breaks."
I am using the "Generic Windows print driver" for my Zebra printing.
Here is the link that I used :
JavaScript: Send raw text to printer - no server requests/method calls, able to work offline, purely clientside
The output format totally mess up in the Zebra printing. On the other hand, the Labelary looks good to me though.
I am using the Java Vaadin framework and call the javaScript to print the ZPL command to use the "Generic Windows print driver". It worked but the format did not look to me. Extra spaces everywhere and some text did not show up at all but it looks OK in Labelary though.
I tried to print the label in client machines with Zebra printer for my Java Vaadin server side application and I finally able to make it printing but don't know why the format looks totally unpredictable.
My label size is : 3.5 inches X 2 inches label.
I can print the whole field now but still got extra space on the output.
^XA^LL496
^PW711
^FT16,209^A0N,20,19^FH^FDL-01,02,03^FS
^FT16,169^A0N,20,19^FH^FDU-01,02,03^FS
^FT16,249^A0N,23,24^FH^FDUSER ID:admin^FS
^FT16,289^A0N,23,24^FH^FDPromise Date: 02/15/16^FS
^FT16,329^A0N,23,24^FH^FDRequest: 11/14/19 01:48 PM^FS
^FT16,369^A0N,23,24^FH^FDMatl: ST30^FS
^FT7,101^A0N,113,112^FH^FDX^FS
^BY4,2.5,59^FT131,87^B3N,N,,Y,N
^FD2246284^FS
^PQ1,0,1,Y^XZ
Here is the image: There are some extra spaces in the print label from Zebra printer.
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I know it's an old question.
I had similair problem printing through cups, turned out the default options had margins set in them. Setting them to zero and Long Line Handling to 'Wrap at Right Edge' fixed my problem:
Finally I am able to get rid of this extra spaces by adding \ +\n string at he end of each java script statement.
We need two \\ characters, the first \ character as the escape character to make it working.
Finally I am able to get rid of this extra spaces by adding \ +\n string at he end of each java script statement. We need two \ characters, the first \ character as the escape character to make it working.
I've been trying to get ZPL working with a combination of ^FH and new lines. For some reason when I use the following code
^FH\^FD<RECEIVERNAME>\&<RECEIVERSTREET>\&<RECEIVERHOUSENUMBER>^FS
It ends up as
<RECEIVERNAME>&<RECEIVERSTREET>&<RECEIVERHOUSENUMBER>
I cannot seem to figure out how to stop ^FH from converting the new line to a symbol.
Hex for a new line is 0a, and hex for carriage return is 0d.
Neither of them work with http://labelary.com/ so I'm guessing that they are not supported for what you are using them for.
Line break characters (0x0d and/or 0x0a) like any other nonprintable characters are not supported in the commands ^FD, ^FV and ^SN, as stated in the ZPL Programming Guide. See the description of the ^FD command for reference.
I am maintaining a printing program that now requires printing both a ~ and an * in a code128 barcode in zpl.
Currently, I am using the code below that uses the ^FH to represent the tilde in hex:
^BCN,120,Y,N,N,N^FH^FDSPECIAL*MAKE_7e123456^FS
The barcode prints excluding the * and ~ as 'SPECIALMAKE123456'. Is it possible to print the tilde and asterisk in a zpl code128 barcode?
As a quick guess, since I don't have a ZPLII printer immediately available, I'd try
^BCN,120,Y,N,N,A^FH^FDSPECIAL*MAKE_7e123456^FS
(note A before the ^FH = Auto-select codeset)
Perhaps also forcing a codeset by ...^FH^FD>:SPECIAL*... may work, but subset B is the default in any case...
I located my old A300 printer, and was able to produce the required interpretation line using each of
^BCN,120,Y,N,N,A^FH^FDSPECIAL*MAKE_7E123456^FS
^BCN,120,Y,N,N,A^FH^FDSPECIAL_2AMAKE_7E123456^FS
Can't find my scanner to verify at present - but the computer room is a mite tidier...
It may depends on type of barcode.
For example, to print in 'barcode 128', you have to change code to code B, by signs >:
And: to print tilde ~, type >=. To print ^, type ><. To print >, type >0.
Look to zpl documentation, to table with Code 128 Invocation Characters.
My sample zpl code:
^XA
^BY2,3,95^FT0,206^BCN,,Y,N
^FD>:caret >< bigger >0 tilde >= end^FS
^PQ1,1,1,Y^XZ
I am maintaining a program that outputs ZPL to a label printer. Today, the character sequence ~Ja came in as part of a string to be printed, which is ZPL's "cancel all" command. Needless to say, the label did not print.
Is there an easy way in ZPL to escape a tilde?
You can use ~CT or ^CT to change the tilde control character to any other ASCII character, and then you can print tildes normally. However, the new control character won't be printable. This is probably going to be quite a hassle to maintain.
An example changing the control command prefix to +, taken from page 165 of the ZPL II programming guide:
^XA
^CT+
^XZ
+HS
If your string is represented as field data with ^FD, ^FV, or ^SN, you can use ^FH to encode the tilde in the string with its hex value, 7E.
An example, taken from page 192 of the ZPL II programming guide:
^XA
^FO100,100
^AD^FH
^FDTilde _7e used for HEX^FS
^XZ
Output:
Tilde ~ used for HEX
~ can be printed by replacing to \7E
It seeems like replacing these three characters will allow any key on the keyboard to print fine. I figured this out using ZebraDesigner, printing to a file and seeing what characters they escape.
\ to \1F - do this first or it will break the two below
~ to \7E
^ to \5E
Here is the code in C#
private static string escapeChars(string working)
{
working = working.Replace(#"\", #"\1F");
working = working.Replace(#"~", #"\7E");
working = working.Replace(#"^", #"\5E");
return working;
}