I've a Zebra ZT610 and I want to print a label, in pdf format, containing multiple pages and then have it cut on the last page. I've tried using the delayed cut mode and sending the ~JK command but I'm using a self written java application to do the invocation of printing. I've also tried to add the string "${^XB}$" into the PDF document before each page break, except the last, and used the pass-through setting in the driver to inhibit the cut command but that seems to not work either as the java print job is rendering such text as an image.
I've tried the official Zebra driver as well as using the NiceLabel zebra driver too in the hope that they may have more "Custom Commands" options in the settings but nothing has yet come to light.
After we had the same issues for several weeks and neither the vendor nor google nor Zebra's own support came up with a FULL working solution, we've worked out the following EASY 5 step solution for this (apparently pretty common) Zebra Cutter issue/problem:
Step 1:
Set Cutter-Mode to Tear-Off in the settings.
This will disable the auto-cutting after every single page.
Step 2: Go to Customer-Commands in the settings dialog (Allows ZPL coding).
Step 3: Set the first drop-down to "DOCUMENT".
Step 4: Set the Start-Section to "TEXT" and paste in
^XA^MMD^XZ^XA^JUS^XZ
MMD enables PAUSE-Mode. The JK command is only available in Pause-Mode and many Zebra printers do not support the much easier command CN (Cut-Now).
JUS saves the setting to the printer.
Step 5: Set the End-Section to "ANALYZED TEXT" and paste in
˜JK˜PS
JK sets the cut command to the end of the document, PS disables the pause mode (and thus starts printing immediately). When everything looks as described above, hit "APPLY" and your Zebra printer will automatically cut after the end of each document you send to it. You just send your PDF using sumatra or whatever you prefer. The cutter handling is now automatically done by the printer settings.
Alternatively, if you want to do this programmaticaly, use the START and END codes at the corresponding positions in your ZPL code instead. Note that ˜CMDs cannot be send in combination with ^CMDs, thats why there's no XA...XZ block to reset any settings (which is not necessary in this scenario as it only affects the print session and PS turns the pause mode back to OFF).
I had similar concern but as the print server was CUPS, I wasn't able to use Windows drivers and utilities (settings dialog). So basically, I did the following:
On the printer, set Cutter mode. This will cut after each printed label.
In my Java code, thanks to Apache PDFBox lib, open the PDF and for each page, render it as a monochrome BufferedImage, get bytes array from it, and get its hex representation.
Write a few ZPL commands to download hex as graphic data, and add the ^XB command before the ^XZ one, in order to prevent a cut here, except for the last page, so that there is a cut only at the end of the document.
Send the generated ZPL code to the printer. In my case, I send it as a raw document through IPP, using application/vnd.cups-raw as mime-type, thanks to the great lib ipp-client-kotlin, but it is also possible to use Java native printing API with bytes.
Below in a snippet of Java code, for demo purpose:
public void printPdfStream(InputStream pdfStream) throws IOException {
try (PDDocument pdDocument = PDDocument.load(pdfStream)) {
PDFRenderer pdfRenderer = new PDFRenderer(pdDocument);
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
for (int pageIndex = 0; pageIndex < pdDocument.getNumberOfPages(); pageIndex++) {
boolean isLastPage = pageIndex == pdDocument.getNumberOfPages() - 1;
BufferedImage bufferedImage = pdfRenderer.renderImageWithDPI(pageIndex, 300, ImageType.BINARY);
byte[] data = ((DataBufferByte) bufferedImage.getData().getDataBuffer()).getData();
int length = data.length;
// Invert bytes
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
data[i] ^= 0xFF;
}
builder.append("~DGR:label,").append(length).append(",").append(length / bufferedImage.getHeight())
.append(",").append(Hex.getString(data));
builder.append("^XA");
builder.append("^FO0,0");
builder.append("^XGR:label,1,1");
builder.append("^FS");
if (!isLastPage) {
builder.append("^XB");
}
builder.append("^XZ");
}
IppPrinter ippPrinter = new IppPrinter("ipp://printserver/printers/myprinter");
ippPrinter.printJob(new ByteArrayInputStream(builder.toString().getBytes()),
documentFormat("application/vnd.cups-raw"));
}
}
Important: hex data can (and should) be compressed, as mentioned in ZPL Programming Guide, section Alternative Data Compression Scheme for ~DG and ~DB Commands. Depending on the PDF content, it may drastically reduce the data size (by a factor 10 in my case!).
Note that Zebra's support provides a few more alternatives in order to controller the cutter, but this one worked immediately.
Zebra Automatic Cut - Found another solution.
Create a file with the name: Delayed Cut Settings.txt
Insert the following code: ^XA^MMC,N^XZ
Send it to the printer
After you do the 3 steps above, all the documents you send to the printer will be cut automatically.
(To disable that function send again the 'Delayed Cut Setting.txt' with the following code:^XA^MMD^XZ )
The first document you send to the printer, you need to ADD (just once) the command ^MMC,N before the ^XZ
My EXAMPLE TXT:
^XA
^FX Top section with logo, name and address.
^CF0,60
^FO50,50^GB100,100,100^FS
^FO75,75^FR^GB100,100,100^FS
^FO93,93^GB40,40,40^FS
^FO220,50^FDIntershipping, Inc.^FS
^CF0,30
^FO220,115^FD1000 Shipping Lane^FS
^FO220,155^FDShelbyville TN 38102^FS
^FO220,195^FDUnited States (USA)^FS
^FO50,250^GB700,3,3^FS
^FX Second section with recipient address and permit information.
^CFA,30
^FO50,300^FDJohn Doe^FS
^FO50,340^FD100 Main Street^FS
^FO50,380^FDSpringfield TN 39021^FS
^FO50,420^FDUnited States (USA)^FS
^CFA,15
^FO600,300^GB150,150,3^FS
^FO638,340^FDPermit^FS
^FO638,390^FD123456^FS
^FO50,500^GB700,3,3^FS
^FX Third section with bar code.
^BY5,2,270
^FO100,550^BC^FD12345678^FS
^FX Fourth section (the two boxes on the bottom).
^FO50,900^GB700,250,3^FS
^FO400,900^GB3,250,3^FS
^CF0,40
^FO100,960^FDCtr. X34B-1^FS
^FO100,1010^FDREF1 F00B47^FS
^FO100,1060^FDREF2 BL4H8^FS
^CF0,190
^FO470,955^FDCA^FS
^MMC,N
^XZ
I have basically the same problem as this guy. I have a page, accessed over the web (well, local intranet, if that matters), and it needs to reference images on the client's machine. I know those images are going to be in C:\pics. Internet Explorer lets you just reference them, but I'm having trouble printing properly with internet explorer, so I want to try firefox. The answer on that question says you can create a "resource" with a firefox add-on that pages will be able to reference. However, it doesn't seem to be working. I followed the guide for how to make your first add-on and got the red border to work on mozilla sites. I tried editing that add-on to include a chrome.manifest file that just says this:
resource exposedpics file:///C:/pics
and then the page (an asp page) references exposedpics.
<img align=left border="0" src="resource:///exposedpics/<%=Request("Number")%>.jpg" style="border: 3 solid #<%=bordercolor%>" align="right" WIDTH="110" HEIGHT="110">
the page doesn't show the picture. If I go to View Image Info on the image, I'll see the address is "resource:///exposedpics/8593.jpg" (in my example where I input 8593), but it doesn't show the image here. (yes, the image does exist under c:\pics. if I go to file:///C:/pics/8593.jpg, it loads.)
so maybe I don't know how to use a chrome.manifest. (I'm not sure if I need to reference it somehow in my manifest.json, I'm not.) That stack overflow question also says it's possible to dynamically create resources. so I tried to make my manifest.json say:
{
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "FirefoxPixExposer",
"version": "1.0",
"description": "allows websites to access C:\\pics",
"content_scripts": [
{
"matches": ["<all_urls>"],
"js": ["expose.js"]
}
]
}
and expose.js says
// Import Services.jsm unless in a scope where it's already been imported
Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/Services.jsm");
var resProt = Services.io.getProtocolHandler("resource")
.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsIResProtocolHandler);
var aliasFile = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/file/local;1"]
.createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
aliasFile.initWithPath("file:///C:/pics");
var aliasURI = Services.io.newFileURI(aliasFile);
resProt.setSubstitution("ExposedPics", aliasURI);
but the same thing happens, the image doesn't display. I did notice that if I put document.body.style.border = "5px solid red"; at the top of expose.js, I do see a border around the body, but if I move it to below the line Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/Services.jsm"); it doesn't show up. Therefore, I suspect the code to dynamically create a resource is broken.
What am I doing wrong? Ultimately, how can I get an image on the client's machine to show up on a page from the internet?
You are writing a WebExtensions so none of the APIs you are trying to use exist.
This includes Components.utils.import, Components.classes etc. You should read Working with files on MDN to get an idea, what is still possible.
I display an Open File dialog using the following code:
wxFileDialog fileDialog(
this,
wxEmptyString,
"E:\\Testfiles",
"SOME_TEST_FILE_WITH_LONG_NAME.txt",
"TXT files (*.txt)|*.txt",
wxFD_OPEN | wxFD_FILE_MUST_EXIST | wxFD_CHANGE_DIR);
if (fileDialog.ShowModal() == wxID_OK)
{
// do something with the file
}
Notice that I set the default filename to a long string (about 10 or more characters).
When the file dialog is displayed, the filename looks clipped.
But on inspection, it's not really clipped.
More like the starting point of the text is placed too much to the left.
When you place the cursor on the textbox, and scroll to the left, you get the complete filename.
Also, when you switch to a different window then return to the file dialog, it corrects itself and displays the complete filename.
This isn't really affecting the functionality of the file dialog.
This is more of an aesthetic issue.
But if there's a reason for this behavior or if there's a solution, I would like to know.
Thanks!
I'm using:
wxWidgets 3.1.0
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
UPDATE (2017/03/20):
I opened a ticket at wxTrac for this bug.
You can check it here:
http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/17824.
This looks like a bug in wxWidgets, please try to reproduce it in the dialogs sample by making minimal changes to the wxFileDialog call which is already present there and open a ticket on wxTrac with the patch allowing to see the problem, so that someone could debug it.
As a temporary workaround (while an official resolution from wxWidgets is not yet available), calling CenterOnParent() after constructing the file dialog properly "scrolls" the filename so that it won't appear as "clipped".
wxFileDialog fileDialog(
this,
wxEmptyString,
"E:\\Testfiles",
"SOME_TEST_FILE_WITH_LONG_NAME.txt",
"TXT files (*.txt)|*.txt",
wxFD_OPEN | wxFD_FILE_MUST_EXIST | wxFD_CHANGE_DIR);
// fixes the clipped filename
fileDialog.CenterOnParent();
if (fileDialog.ShowModal() == wxID_OK)
{
// do something with the file
}
When searching for the word find in the PDF file in this Link before Ghostscript optimization the results will give pages number 4,7 and 13 but after the optimization it gives only pages 4 and 13 ignoring page number 7, the script im using for the optimization :
D:/gswin64c -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dMaxInlineImageSize=0 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dColorImageResolution=96 -dDetectDuplicateImages=true -dColorImageDownsampleThreshold=1.1 -dDOPDFMARKS -dUseTrimBox -sOutputFile="D:/temp/search_text.pdf" -dNOPAUSE -dNOGC -dBATCH -dNumRenderingThreads=8 -c 50000000 setvmthreshold -f "D:/temp/iphone_user_guide.pdf"
I've tried to add several fonts related parameters to the script such as -dEmbedAllFonts=true and pointing to fonts path also I've tried to play with the parameters by eliminating some but with no result
what could be the cause of this problem?
Ghostscript doesn't do 'optimization'. See my answer here:
GhostScript issues with a CropBox
for some details on what it does do.
Wihtout seeing your file I cannot tell you for certain what the difference is, but most likely the missing text has been drawn as images instead of text for some reason.
By the way, a lot of the options you are sending have absolutely no effect (eg NumRenderingThreads, for a device which doesn't do rendering). You should NOT select -dNOGC, that's a really bad idea, -dDOPDFMARKS is already set for the pdfwrite device.
I am printing an EPS File generated with following credentials.
%-12345X#PJL JOB
#PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = POSTSCRIPT
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Title: InvoiceDetail_combine
%%Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2
%%CreationDate: 10/7/2011 4:46:59
%%For: Administrator
%%BoundingBox: (atend)
%%Pages: (atend)
%%Orientation: Portrait
%%PageOrder: Special
%%DocumentNeededResources: (atend)
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend)
%%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
%%TargetDevice: (HP Color LaserJet 4500) (2014.200) 0
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%EndComments
While doing Selection Printing on Ricoh Afficio 2090 or any other drivers/printers get the following error printed on the sheets
ERROR: undefined
OFFENDING COMMAND: F4S47
Stack:
.
Kindly Review and suggest a turn around for the same as i am already stuck in this hell. I have tried to convert/extract in PS but all in vain. I am using gsview to Print and view these files.
This is the problem:
%%PageOrder: Special
A ps document with "Special" page order can NOT be re-ordered. You cannot do a selection or range with this file because it is broken for this use. You must reprocess the file using Distiller or ghostscript (ps2ps or ps2pdf) in order to print selected or re-ordered pages from the document.
You can avoid this by generating your postscript files with a real Postscript™ driver (one not created by Microsoft).
The GSView Documentation has more about this.
Previously:
This line ...
%%TargetDevice: (HP Color LaserJet 4500) (2014.200) 0
... tells us that the file was generated with HP printers as a target. So this really is not an EPS file. Because it's not Encapsulatable. To generate output on a printer the file has to execute the showpage operator, which is a no-no for EPS files.
So uncheck the EPS box (it's a big fat lie, anyway), and select (install) a Generic Postscript driver. If you need to send it to multiple makes of printer, the file needs to make as few assumptions about the printer as possible.
The first thing is that this is not a valid EPS file, as it has PJL attached at the front. Many PostScript printers will strip this off, but by no means all.
This probably is not the source of the problem.
There is no way to 'review' the problem as you have not supplied the complete PostScript program. Without that there is no way to tell what is actually wrong, the error message tells you that the interpreter encountered 'F4547' while trying to parse a token, and that this has not been defined as a routine.
Most likely the file is corrupt, either damaged in some way, or possibly it is a biinary file and has been transmitted by some process which does has done some kind of conversion (CR/LF is common). The offending command looks like its ASCIIHex encoded, so that may be a red herring.
If you want additional help, you are going to have to make the whole program available somewhere.