"Kevin Provance" wrote:

> "Junior" <Jun***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2FF5EF2A-55FD-4CEE-A5DF-A13FB1C98AE9@microsoft.com...
> :
> : I use the code below with almost any Zebra printer, but i am trying to use
> it
> : with ZEBRAZM400 and is not working. Could help me to find where is the
> : problem?
> :
>
> Last I checked, this is a VB group...you know, for Visual Basic?  What does
> your question have to do with VB?  If the answer is "nothing", then you have
> the wrong group.
>
> .
>

"Junior" <Jun***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> mmm, your are right. let me explain
> Iam working with vb 6 sp5, i use the same code for small
> zebra printer, but now i have to configure Zebra ZM400,
> i tried to se the same cone but i each time that i print i only
> see the character, no barcode, and nothing else. I don't
> understand why the code is not working with Zebra ZM400.
> N
> Q250,1
> q800
> OFf
> A160,10,0,2,1,3,N,""  . . . etc

"Mike Williams" wrote:

> "Junior" <Jun***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EE252A79-5135-492A-B5AD-2D85BFDAC069@microsoft.com...
> >> I don't understand why the code is not working
> >> with Zebra ZM400. Thankz
>
> Actually, when I said in my previous response that only a Zebra user will be
> able to tell you for certain whether
> you are sending the correct data to the printer, I might actually have done
> you a favour there. What I meant of course is that an answer regarding
> whether or not the data is correct will *most likely* come from someone who
> uses Zebras themselves and that others would not be prepared to put in the
> required time to download the appropriate manual and check the required data
> for you, but of course some people who do not use Zebras but would like to
> "make a point and prove me wrong" (such as Tom Shelton for example) might
> very well be prepared to do the donkey work for you just to make a point, so
> you might actually get an answer from him ;-)
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> .
>

"Dee Earley" wrote:

> On 11/08/2010 00:00, Junior wrote:
> > I use the code below with almost any Zebra printer, but i am trying to use it
> > with ZEBRAZM400 and is not working. Could help me to find where is the
> > problem?
>
> If it's really a VB question...
> http://hashvb.earlsoft.co.uk/User:Dee/It_doesn%27t_work%21
>
> --
> Dee Earley (dee.ear***@icode.co.uk)
> i-Catcher Development Team
>
> iCode Systems
>
> (Replies direct to my email address will be ignored.
> Please reply to the group.)
> .
>

"Dee Earley" wrote:

> On 12/08/2010 17:07, Junior wrote:
> > mmm, your are right. let me explain
> > Iam working with vb 6 sp5, i use the same code for small zebra printer, but
> > now i have to configure Zebra ZM400,
> > i tried to se the same cone but i each time that i print i only see the
> > character, no barcode, and nothing else.
> >
> > I don't understand why the code is not working with Zebra ZM400.
> > Thankz
>
> That still amounts to "it doesn't work.
>
> Please try elaborating
> (And as you didn't read it:
> http://hashvb.earlsoft.co.uk/User:Dee/It_doesn%27t_work%21)
>
> --
> Dee Earley (dee.ear***@icode.co.uk)
> i-Catcher Development Team
>
> iCode Systems
>
> (Replies direct to my email address will be ignored.
> Please reply to the group.)
> .
>

"Mike Williams" wrote:

> > "Junior" <Jun***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:D77A2D83-8788-4644-B111-2EAF3F76F8C8@microsoft.com...
> > Below is my vb 6.0 sp5 code
> >     Printer.Print "Q160,24q800OFf"
> >     Printer.Print "A5,10,0,1,1,2,N,"RICE GIANT 2 K"
> >                       B5,60,0,E30,2,2,30,N,"7441024100018"
> >                       A5,94,0,2,1,1,N,"7441024100018"
> >                       A90,115,0,2,1,2,N,"› 13,55"
>
> As I've said, I have never used a Label Printer but from the above code it
> looks as though you want to send printer control codes and other raw data
> directly to the Zebra. In fact from a quick look at the Zebra EPL commands
> in the manual that is downloadable from the Zebra web page it looks as
> though the first line of your code is attempting to set the Form Length and
> Form Width and some other options (cut position or whatever). If that is the
> case then you are not going to do it by Printing your raw data in the above
> fashion using the VB6 Printer Object. In order to send such stuff (unless
> Zebra have done something really strange with their drivers) you need to
> address the printer directly to send raw data to it, completely bypassing
> the Windows driver. This of course is possible, but it does make me wonder
> why you said in your initial post that your code worked fine with other
> Zebras until you got the new Zebra ZM400, because as far as I can judge that
> page setting code yup have shown us using Printer.Print would not work with
> any Zebra printer (at least not inasmuch as setting the page is concerned,
> although it might print the "Q160,24q800OFf" as a straight forward piece of
> text). So, before we go any further, perhaps it might be a good start if you
> were to thoroughly check the information you are sending us in respect of
> your question, before you send it, to make sure that you are telling it
> "exactly as it is", rather than either embellishing it or missing out
> something of importance. So, my first question to you is, "Did that EXACT
> code correctly set the page up properly on your old Zebra printers, or was
> it really some other code you used that worked"? The answer to this is
> important because we cannot help you unless you give us accurate information
> about your problem.
>
> One common way of sending raw data to a printer (which is what I am sure you
> need to do to accomplish your desired task) was to Open the Printer Port for
> Output (using the same VB methods that opens standard files for output) and
> then Print data strings to it in the same way that you would Print data
> strings to a standard file, and then Close the file when you had finished.
> Are you /sure/ that is not what you were doing with the old Zebra printers
> when you said your code worked. If that is the case then your code would
> have been nothing like the code example you have just posted. Also, that
> method (opening the printer port as a file and writing it to a file) would
> have worked fine with printers connected via the parallel port, but /not/
> with printers connected via a USB port, so if your old Zebra printers were
> parallel connected and your new ZM400 is USB connected then that would
> explain why the code you used successfully in the past does not work any
> more. It still would not explain why you sent us Printer.Print code telling
> us that "it used to work" when in fact to the best of my knowledge that
> specific code would never have worked on any of your Zebras and you must in
> fact have used some other code (probably the File writing code I mentioned).
>
> Anyway, on the assumption that your problem is roughly as I have outlined
> above then you will be able to use the various functions in winspool.drv to
> send raw data directly to your Zebra printer from VB6, whether it is USB
> connected or not. Check out the example at the following link:
>
>     http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154078
>
> Mike
>
>
> 
>
> .
>

> "Junior" <Jun***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A002ABA0-8ADD-45BE-B149-5AFAC2BD9E16@microsoft.com...
>
>> Thank you Master it works!!
>
> Well I'm sure it does work, but there's no need to call me Master! In fact I
> would much prefer it if you called me nothing at all and just gave me an
> honest answer to the question I posed in relation to the Printer.Print code
> you posted which you told us used to work okay to deliver control sequences
> to your older Zebra printers :-)
>
> Come on, Junior, spill the beans. That Printer.Print code did not work, did
> it, and it was some other code you actually used, probably opening the port
> as a file for output?
>

"Helmut Meukel" <NoSpaml@NoProvider.de> wrote in message
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> Mike Williams wrote:
>>> "Junior" <Jun***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:A002ABA0-8ADD-45BE-B149-5AFAC2BD9E16@microsoft.com...
>>> Thank you Master it works!!
>> Well I'm sure it does work, but there's no need to call me Master!
>> In fact I would much prefer it if you called me nothing at all and
>> just gave me an honest answer to the question I posed . . .
>
> Mike, Junior forgot to tell us that Zebra windows drivers
> can't understand the ZPL II programming statements. There
> is however a pass-through feature built into these drivers. In one of my
> programs I had to use a Zebra and I
> concatenated all texts to one string instead of using
> separate Printer.Print for each.
>  Const PassThroughOn = "${", PassThroughOff = "}$"
>  Const StartPosLeftLabel = "^FO60,0" [some lines snipped]
>  Const EndFormat = "^XZ"
>  Printer.Print PassThroughOn & StartFormat & StartPosLeftLabel _
>  [more lines snipped]
>   Printer.EndDoc
> Sorry to be late, I was some days off, I just read this thread and
> thought I should tell you all, because Junior obviously won't.