We have a VarioPrint 135 laser printer. Printer has ability to print via Postscript. I was trying to set some properties which could lead to print out immediately. But with no luck.
I was trying to print 10000 A4, but the printer is spooling everytime (even if i set print directly to printer). It's not possible to wait more than one hour for spooling.
I am able to print via PCL driver, but we couldn't do that because there is no full bleed option. But when the printer starts spool some files it starts printing.
I expect same behaviour when I am using PostScript driver.
Any ideas?
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Epson printers, by default, have a paper size of 80mm x 297mm (or something close to 297)
The datawindow in my program is longer than that, so it prints a second page and duplicates the header.
If you go into the printer properties and set the paper length to 80mm x 2970mm then everything works fine.
I am trying to write a powershell script that will automate this process.
The Printer Name is "EPSON TM-T20IIIL Receipt" and the Paper Size Value that I want it to be set to is "Roll Paper 80 x 3276 mm"
EDIT This is a roll receipt printer
This seems like it would work for a regular printer that has a PaperSize Value of A0-A10. The problem Im facing is that the Epson Roll Receipt printer does not have any of these values. Is there a corresponding value to the size I'm looking for?
Set-PrintConfiguration -PrinterName "EPSON TM-T20IIIL Receipt" -PaperSize A4
Printer size options available
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Since Epson receipt printers are not what I would say are "normal" printers, you can't use typical Windows print settings to set these values. When printing, you basically only send text and basic commands to the printer. Most of the configuration settings are actually stored in the Flash memory on the printer and not in the driver. For ex. the logos at the start of a receipt is stored on the printer, and not generated at all by the driver. Similarly, options for automatically cutting paper at the end of printing. I believe that paper/roll size falls under these kind of settings because the printer needs to know the width of the paper to know how to handle the text being sent to it (remember, we are only sending basic raw text to the printer, and the printer determines how to print it).
Therefore to configure the printer, while the basic driver is needed, you actually have to use the Epson Advanced Printer Driver to configure the printer, and then use APD to export the configuration. That exported configuration can be used to set up new printers. For ex. using APD v5 driver.
First install and fully configure the printer with all the configurations that you want. (paper/roll sizes, logos, cut/no cut at end of print, etc.)
Export the configuration by running Start -> All Programs -> EPSON -> EPSON Advanced Printer Driver 5 and open Register, Change and Delete EPSON TM Printer
Select the printer, and from the menu select Copy Installation -> Create
Select the installation package type. e.g. I suggest Complete package (with the APD Utility)
Now you can use that installation package to install a fully configured printer on any new machines.
I use Raspberry Pi connected to a Zebra GX430t with CUPS. I use the "Local Raw Printer" driver and I send the ZPL directly to the printer using Python.
I use the termal transfert mode, but I have a problem with the printer (300dpi), because the printing of the datamatrix is quite blurry, so I can't read it.
I emailed the Zebra support, and they told me to modify the temperature of the printing head, but I have no clue on how to do it with ZPL. I also have to modify the grayscale with ZPL. Do you know how to do one of this commands please ?
Plus, could you confirm that ^MTT is the command to set the printer to Thermal Transfert and that ^PW is used to set the width of the label ? Is the configuration saved in the printer, even when turned off, until the configuration change ?
Use ^MDa command. where a is the value of the darkness level. Value is 0 to 30 in increments of 0.1.
Yes, ^MTa sets printer mode where a is the setting, T= Thermal Transfer, D= Direct
I can extract text from a Win7 print driver generated PostScript file, but not from Win8.
For example, creating some text in Windows' "Notepad", telling Notepad to print using an HP PostScript print driver, and telling the print driver to output to a file, I obtain a file that I then want to extract text from.
I have tried Ghostscript's ps2ascii and pstopdf | pdftotext and a number of other things on a Ubuntu platform, and while some of these work on the Win7 output, I can not find any combination that work on the Win8 output.
Is there an Open Source solution to this?
You cannot guarantee getting text from any PostScript program, its not designed for that.
However Ghostscript's txtwrite device will do a decent job on the output from the Windows PostScript printer driver. Its much better than ps2ascii because (amongst other things) it can handle Unicode, so its not limited to ASCII.
Beware that applications may generate PostScript themselves, so even if the output appears to be from the Windows PostScript printer driver, the actual content might be generated by the application.
Also you will only get text out of the Windows PostScript printer driver if the application actually writes text to the device context. For example if you print a PDF from the Edge browser then you will get text in the output. If you print the same PDF from Chrome on the same system, then the text is instead rendered as vectors (ie line, arc, stroke fill etc) not text.
Just be aware that what you are trying to do isn't going to be 100% successful in the general case.
I have two different Zebra printers, the RW420 and the iMZ320.
I am trying to print images on them.
I am using the Java/Android SDK provided by Zebra to first upload the image.
printer.storeImage("R:IMAGE.GRF", ZebraImageFactory.getImage(bmp), ImageUtils.IMAGE_DIMEN, ImageUtils.IMAGE_DIMEN);
On the iMZ320, the image uploads just fine and I am able to print it out.
However, on the RW420, I cannot print the image and when I print the config page with the list of file names, the file is listed as 'IMAGE.PCX'
The printer's language is set to 'ZPL'
Any ideas on why this is happening?
So it depends upon how you created 'printer' in your example. If you used the ZebraPrinterFactory.getInstance(Connection connection) call directly, the SDK will communicate with the printer and determine the type of printer based on a few criteria. For RW420 it will use CPCL as the default language of choice (even though it is in ZPL mode) which will force it to use PCX rather than GRF.
To override this, you can create the printer using the explicit language you wish to use.
ZebraPrinter printer = ZebraPrinterFactory.getInstance(PrinterLanguage.ZPL, connection);
Is there any possibility of printing any document (e.g. image, PDF, Office document, etc) with a text label at the top of page? Modifying actual files isn't an option for me. I'm wondering if there's anything like that provided in Windows printing system.
Thanks.
Some printers allow you to add a "watermark" to every page they print (but that functionality is all in the printer drivers, now in Windows itself). If that's available to you, you could probably tweak the watermark to be what you need.
Another tactic--but a challenging one!--would be to create your own printer driver that accepts the Print command from any program, just like a printer, then adds the text label you want, then forwards the print job on to a real physical printer.