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ZuzEL
ZuzEL

Reputation: 13675

Emulate ZPL printer

To emulate ZPL printer on my mac I searched through internet for a few days. Finally I've got a solution to post here, so other users could find it helpful. I wanted to post my solution here Emulate Zebra printer

But "thanks" for those who decided that this question duplicates another one, which in my opinion totally false. So the only option for me is to create another question and answer to it.

Upvotes: 24

Views: 40916

Answers (4)

Mukyuu
Mukyuu

Reputation: 6779

Step by step to install on (tested in ):

  1. Install the ZPL Printer app from the Chrome store
  2. Run the app and make sure it's toggled On. toggled On
  3. Open Printers & scanners or Devices & Printers in Control Panel.
  4. Add a printer. (Optional! Only if you select from control panel)
  5. Select "The printer I want wasn't listed"
  6. Select Add a Local Printer. Then next add local printer
  7. Create a new port - Standard TCP/IP. Use IP 127.0.0.1
  8. Let Windows detect the port and it will eventually return an error.
  9. Select Device Type -> Custom.
  10. Press settings and make sure you have IP Address 127.0.0.1, Protocol RAW and port 9100.
  11. Click OK and Next.
  12. Wait for it to fail to detect driver model.
  13. Select Generic and Generic/Text Only.
  14. Next a few times then Name your printer.

  15. Create your test script

    ^XA
^FO250,40^A0N,70,70^FDLPN^FS
^FO30,120^A0N,50,50
^BCN,100,N,N,N
^FD1000001^SFddddddd^FS
^FO200,300^A0N,50,50
^FD1000001^SFddddddd^FS
^PQ50
^XZ
  16. Print, select your new named printer and Print. print
  17. Viola! printed

Upvotes: 28

Vasudeva R
Vasudeva R

Reputation: 21

Wonderful. This test label command worked fine for me on RHEL7.3. 

lpr -o "raw" -P MYPRINTER <<< "CT~~CD,~CC^~CT~^XA~TA000~JSN^LT0^MNW^MTT^PON^PMN^LH0,0^JMA^PR6,6~SD15^JUS^LRN^CI0^XZ^XA^MMT^PW508^LL0203^LS0^BY4,3,138^FT48,155^BCN,,Y,N^FD>;12^FS^PQ1,0,1,Y^XZ"

tail -f /var/log/cups/access_log

localhost - - [26/Sep/2017:10:32:09 -0400] "POST /printers/MYPRINTER HTTP/1.1" 200 397 Send-Document successful-ok

[MYPRINTER Test label][1]

Upvotes: 2

Lari
Lari

Reputation: 839

Works on as well. Tested it on .

After installation of Chrome App (link provided by @ZuzEL) and Printer Install, open Notepad and type ZPL code, print it on this newly added printer and "voilá"! Print Test

As a @Bill request, I've added some screenshots of my windows printer properties, after install. It's a TCP/IP printer with Generic/Text Only driver, on IP 127.0.0.1 and port 9100, the defaults of chrome app.

Printer Properties 1

Printer Properties 2

Printer Properties 3

Printer Properties 4

Upvotes: 9

ZuzEL
ZuzEL

Reputation: 13675

So, to emulate ZPL printer on your mac (possibly windows too):

  1. Install this chrome app Zpl Printer
  2. Go to printer settings, add new one. enter image description here

Port can vary. Double-check it.

  1. Make sure everything turned on.

To test it, try in your terminal:

lp -o "raw" -q1 -d zpl <<< "CT~~CD,~CC^~CT~^XA~TA000~JSN^LT0^MNW^MTT^PON^PMN^LH0,0^JMA^PR6,6~SD15^JUS^LRN^CI0^XZ^XA^MMT^PW508^LL0203^LS0^BY4,3,138^FT48,155^BCN,,Y,N^FD>;12^FS^PQ1,0,1,Y^XZ"

If everything tuned properly, in ZPL printer you will see:

enter image description here

Upvotes: 32

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