I want to send a String to the Zebra printer in which I have e.g. the energy E_{N} printed whereas N must be a subscript of E. I can send strings to the printer which are in a normal format (e.g. 'bla=7'), but I have no idea how to include this subscript. Up to now I have strings like '^FDbla^FS'
I searched for the problem but could only find a solution for fixed problems like ^2, which were solved with a special character. There was no general solution.
The way I solved this was to strip out the subscripts and print them on the next half-line down.
^XA
^FT78,76^A0N,28,28^FH_^FDH PO ^FS
^FT78,90^A0N,28,28^FH_^FD 3 4^FS
^XZ
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i have problem printing greek characters to a Zebra GC420 desktop printer. My code is:
$printarr[] = '^XA^CWZ,E:TT0003M_.FNT^FS^XZ^XA^FWN^FO70,50^A0,30,25^FH^FD'.labels_utf8_parse($name).'^FS^FO70,90^BY2^B3,,100^FD' . $node->field_o['und'][0]['value'] . '^FS^XZ';
What am i doing wrong? Instead of greek letters i get crosses. The strange part is that in another area of the code,the below code prints correctly greek characters:
$toprint = '^XA^CWZ,E:TT0003M_.FNT^FS^XZ^XA^FWR';
What should i do, how should i proceed to see what is the problem and how could i solve it?
You need to set the character encoding to UTF-8 using ^CI28. Put it near the top of the format, for example, after the ^XA^FWN.
let's say I want to print a backslash and the pound symbol on a label: \£
I cant. I can only print either the backslash or the pound symbol, but the other one will render incorrectly.
This will print correctly the pound symbol, but will print a cent symbol instead of the backslash:
^XA
^CI28
^FO^AT^FH^FD_c2_a3^FS
^XZ
And this will print correctly the backslash, but not the pound symbol:
^XA
^CI13
^FO^AT^FH^FD_c2_a3^FS
^XZ
Do you know a way to combine these two in one single field ?
Thanks
Use the Field Hex feature:
^XA
^FO10,10^A0,40,40^FH_^FDEuro Symbol/_15/^FS
^XZ
As per ZPL script documents, they mentioned "You can mix character sets on a label." using ^CI command.
But there is no example scripts are available to mix character sets, Instead of that the example scripts are just explaining "how to remap the characters".
Also the document has clearly mentioned that If you want to print backslash, you should use ^CI13(^CI13 must be selected to print a backslash (\)). But If we use ^CI13, Latin characters are not printing properly which expects ^CI28.
So I'm not sure if it's possible to print both Latin characters and backslash (\) in same label.
I need to be able to print Hebrew characters on my Epson TM-T20ii. I am trying to get my printer to switch to character code page 36(PC862) using
ESC t36
for some reason the printer is switching to code page 3 and then printing the number 6.
Is there a way to let the printer know that the 6 is part of my command?
If you know of a different workaround please comment below.
Thanks
You are making a mistake, you aren't meant to replace n with an actual number.
The proper syntax in your case would be ←t$
Explanation: the manual says "ESC t n", n referring to the page sheet, however you don't replace n with a number rather with the ASCII character n, so in your example 36 = $ because $ is the 36th character on the ASCII table.
Working on printing and encoding RFID labels with the Zebra ZD500R Printer.
Here is my ZPL: The field data is F1001001, which i can encode and print on the label. However the EPC returned is F10010010000000000000000. How can i do one of 2 things. Either get the ZPL to 4 Bytes with no 0's or encode random hexadecimals at the front and my field data at the end?
My other question is how do make my field data increment and have both the RFID encoded tag and label match?
`^XA
^BCN,100,N,N
^FO30,50^FDF1001001^FS
^FO30,160^ADN,18,15^FDF1001001^FS
^FO30,220^ADN,10,20^^FD12/1/2024^FS
^FO30,260^ADN,10,20^^FDUYT 098^FS
^RFW,H^FDF1001001^FS
^RFR,H^FN11^FS
^FH^HV11,,EPC:[,]_0D_0A,L
^XZ`
I know I'm a bit late to the party but it might be useful if someone else stumbles over this post...
Try:
^RS8
^RFW,H,,,A^FD12345678^FS
When read with a RFID reader this will return the EPC code 12345678 without the trailing zeros (or encode random hexadecimals). For reference this was written to a tag using a Zebra ZQ511.
https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_new_ia/en-us/manuals/printers/common/programming/rfid3-pg-en.pdf
If you want to encode fixed EPC length, use the ^RF command with a length paramter :
Example 3: This example encodes 4 bytes of hexadecimal formatted data, starting in block 3
of Gen 2 EPC bank 1. (The ^RS command can be omitted for printers that use Gen 2 tag types
only.)
^XA
^RS8
^RFW,H,3,4,1^FD11112222^FS
^XZ
For incrementation, I suppose Zebra has a builtin variable management but I don't know how it works... But you are better calling the Zebra printer through an external program...
I'm trying to process a German word list and can't figure out what encoding the file is in. The 'file' unix command says the file is "Non-ISO extended-ASCII text". Most of the words are in ascii, but here are the exceptions:
ANDR\x82
ATTACH\x82
C\x82ZANNE
CH\x83TEAU
CONF\x82RENCIER
FABERG\x82
L\x82VI-STRAUSS
RH\x93NETAL
P\xF2ANGE
Any hints would be great. Thanks!
EDIT: To be clear, the hex codes above are C hex string literals so replace \xXX with the literal hex value XX.
It looks like CP437 or CP852, assuming the \x82 sequences encode single characters, and are not literally four characters. Well, at least everything else does, but the last line is a bit of a puzzle.