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mister_snuffleupagus
mister_snuffleupagus

Reputation: 47

Zebra ZQ520 printer - how to advance to next label

I am working with a Zebra ZQ520 at the moment. I am printing on sticky labels. My problem is that the printer won't advance to the gap between labels when it has finished printing one label, which is what I need.

I have read about the JSA command and tried using it.

[https://support.zebra.com/cpws/docs/zpl/JS_Command.pdf][1]

The sequence that I am sending to the printer looks something like this. The full sequence represents one label.

~JSA^XA^CWZ,E:TT0003M_.FNT^FS^XZ^XA^PA1,1,1,1^JUS^XZ....

I am not sure if I am inserting JSA at the right position or if it matters. I have tried ~JSB also but that doesn't seem to have any effect either.

Any tips of help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3017

Answers (2)

mister_snuffleupagus
mister_snuffleupagus

Reputation: 47

I discovered out what the issue was thankfully. The printer's print mode was not set to the correct value. I use the same printer for both continuous paper and sticky labels by the way.

For sticky labels, it needed to be set to tear off whereas it was in fact set to rewind.

I found the Zebra Android Setup Utility to be very useful in daignosing the issue. I now set the print mode (media.printmode) to the correct value at run time from my application's code.

@eltonsaunders Thanks very much for your assistance!

Upvotes: 0

Elton Saunders
Elton Saunders

Reputation: 1278

By default the printer is in "Bar Sense", that is it is looking for a black bar printed on the back of the liner to use for calibration. To put the printer in "Gap Sense" you need to send the following CPCL commands:

! DF CONFIG.SYS
! UTILITIES
GAP-SENSE
PRINT

After the printer is in the correct mode for bar or gap then run the followign command to calibrate:

~jc^xa^jus^xz

Also see the Zebra KB article on Calibrating the ZQ and QL printers.

Upvotes: 1

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