Zebra LP2844 Linux and my headache!

[NoOp]

On 07/08/2007 12:52 PM, Lee McLain wrote:
> Ok, I tried that and all that happens is the printer errors out after about
> 10 seconds.
> 
> Is there anyone who has any experience with devices like these?  Would I
> have better luck attaching the printer via serial or parallel interface and
> sending the files that way?
> 
> Thanks,
> Lee
> 

What driver are you using?  According to:
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/whatsnew.html
Printer Drivers
 75. New Drivers; CUPS 1.2 adds Zebra CPCL and EPL label printer drivers

Looks like for ASCII you may need to use the serial or parallel port:
<https://support.zebra.com/OA_HTML/csksxvm.jsp?JServSessionIdrootz03srlweb08a=a49k70tu31.sx0NqR9GrQjwa3vv/BDzmB9v/AbJphDUa3bNqALRnk8Kc64IsAjwqA4ImQXHcxyTb3y-&jttst0=6_50258%2C50258%2C-1%2C0%2C&jtfm0=_0_0_-1_-1_f_nv_&etfm1=&jfn=ZG75D0684B1CFEF5F0A79F3E88AA791EE5574840D09A236A8AE2059B87E4A68021CCB91451FFFB3755234C1DF36912DDCAA8&p03ebs=kaApH7qFPY3bIM0cIDGbKZyJ:S&p03ebs_pses=p03ebs%3DkaApH7qFPY3bIM0cIDGbKZyJ%253AS%7E&oas=XjLUmkgCU4-MoubMnaICFA..&nSetId=16810&nBrowseCategoryId=10115>
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Zebra Printer driver for UNIX

We currently do not have any software that will support our printers on
a Unix or Unix-like environment.

Here are a couple of suggestions that you may wish to explore...

1. EuroPlus, the makers of the NiceLabel label design program have a
version of the program for Unix. It includes a Unix print queue that can
be used to print from any Unix application to your printer. You can
contact them at www.nicelabel.com

2. There is an open source project for Linux that is developing the
Common Unix Print System, or CUPS. One of the contributors has provided
a significant amount of information about Zebra printers and my
understanding is that the current build (available from www.cups.org)
supports printing to Zebra printers.

Software that will enable you to send ASCII string out one of the
computer's ports (Serial, Parallel and some others) can be used to make
the printer print, but you will need to send the printer's native
command language to the printer.  Depending on the model of the printer
this will be either Zebra Printer Language (ZPL), Eltron Printer
Language (EPL), or Comtec Printer Control Language (CPCL).   For more
information about Printer control languages review
https://support.zebra.com/cpws/docs/zpl/zpl_manuals.htm for the ZPL
manual; https://support.zebra.com/cpws/docs/eltron/epl2/EPL2_Prog.pdf
for the EPL manual; or
http://www.zebra.com/id/zebra/na/en/documentlibrary/manuals/en/cpcl_programming_language.DownloadFile.File.tmp/PROMAN_P1a.pdf
for the CPCL manual.

The purpose of the driver is to translate a known generic output
language into the printer control language necessary to print the pages.
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