problems to print with different fonts on my Zebra ZQ520:
as described in documentation, I've downloaded some new font through the official Zebra Font Downloader program, comic and verdana. After this, I found the new fonts in E: storage area. So the script:
^XA^HWE:^XZ
give me:
LIST OF FONT LINKS
- DIR E:.
* E:COMIC_02.CPF 7359
* E:VERDAN02.CPF 163 ....
- 66589184 bytes free E: ONBOARD FLASH
and trying to print example string from font downloader program, it print with the installed font with success.
The problem appens if I try to print a label. The printer seems not consider the .CPF files in ZPL commands.
My tests, without success, are:
1) following the procedure indicated in https://km.zebra.com/kb/index?page=content&id=SO7891 , assigning a designator to new font, with the script:
^XA^CWQ,E:COMIC_02.CPF^XZ
and trying to print something as:
^XA^FO50,50^AQN,50,50^FDSAMPLE CoMiC^FS ^XZ
seems not working (is it not possible to assign a designator on .CPF files??)
2) (not working too) test, I tryed to print something with the ^A# command, also without success. Example:
^XA^FO50,50^A#N,50,50,E:COMIC_02.CPF^FDSAMPLE CoMiC^FS ^XZ
Where is the problem? with printer (updated with the last firmware, V76.19.15Z)?
or ZPL can't print font stored in .CPF files?
or ..??
thanks!
The ZQ500 supports multiple printing languages. It ships with the PnP string stating that it is a CPCL printer. This tells the Zebra Setup Utility to generate a CPCL compatible font (.CPF). Since you are looking to print using ZPL you need to generate a font compatible with ZPL.
https://km.zebra.com/resources/sites/ZEBRA/content/live/SOLUTIONS/8000/SO8535/en_US/ZebraNet_Bridge_Font_Converting.pdf
This will use a different program to package a .ttf font for the printer. ZPL has support for truetype fonts so you will have better scaling of the font.
The ^CW and ^A# commands will both work with the ttf font.
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I'm using the GNU texinfo package to generate both PDF and .info files from a .texi file.
I'm trying to update an old .texi file (not changed since 2001) and generate the same PDF output. I've resolved a number of issues, but there are a couple outstanding. In the old PDF, the title was in Helvetica and body text is Liberation Serif. In the new PDF, both are Computer Modern.
I've read everything that I can find about fonts, but I'm not able to change the fonts. Nothing that I do seems to work. Everything I have tried generates errors.
In my .texi file, before any \setfont directives, I have \def\fontprefix{uh} which, if I read the pdftex.map file correctly, should select the NimbusSanL font set (e.g. uhvr8a.pfb). I get the following errors:
mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation for uhss10.
kpathsea: Running mktexmf uhss10
! I can't find file uhss10'.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input uhss10`
Does anyone have a example .texi file which sets the font family to use? Or an explanation of what I'm doing wrong?
I bought a no-name Android ESC/POS printer, it support Bluetooth. I need help in printing Cyrillic symbols in Windows-1251 charset. What I do first:
\x1B\x40 (ESC # to initialize printer)
\xD5\xD3\xC9\n (the text that I need to print, standard Windows-1251 symbols, but it shows me some abracadabra :))
I should say, that the charset is set to Windows-1251 on the printer (by the exe tool that comes with it)
Also I tried command \x1B\x74\x49 (it sets the Windows-1251 manually, but there is no effect). Any ideas what we can do with it? Thank you all.
You can try my app that print cyrillic text: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pe.diegoveloper.printerserverapp
Configure your ESC/POS printers on 'Quick Printer' and print from your app.
I tried many variants and after this manual end up with this character code page settings { 27, 116, 9 }
outputStream.write(new byte [] { 27, 116, 9 });
outputStream.write("Привет Мир".getBytes("cp866"));
outputStream.write(PrinterCommands.LF);
Try to convert your text to cp866.
And set code page in printer via ESC/POS command into 17.
With Universal Cyriclic decoder you can find your source encoding/decoding.
Enter in decoded field your output text. For example 袩褉懈胁械褌.
Select source encoding UTF-8.
Then find your wanted decoding charset by selecting field "display as".
I am trying to print to Zebra iMZ320
This one prints when saved to a file as UTF 8 encoded and send to the printer using Zebra Utilities
^XA^LRN^CI0^XZ ^XA^CWZ,E:TT0003M_.TTF^FS^XZ ^XA ^PA1,1,1,1^FS ^FO010,610^CI28^AZN,50,40^FD*Arabic: زيبرة^FS ^PQ1 ^XZ
But does not fire from iOS source code directly.
Do I need to do anything else?
We have some ancient vb6 program that creates barcode using printer objects that relies on window fonts, which works fine with code39.
Recently we need to switch the font to code128, after some work we converted the input into code128 format string, and trying print using the same method, however, the printout does not seem right (strange thing is, when we copy the converted string into excel and use the same code 128 font to print it out, it display and print out prefectly)
I was wondering if anyone had the same experience, if so, can anyone shred some lights please?
The following are the code we used to print out barcode
dim sOrg as string
sOrg = "12345888"
printer.fontName = "code39"
printer.print sOrg 'This prints it out perfectly
'However when we change font to code
'this returns Í,BZx}Î which can be copy onto Excel and print out properly
sOrg = convertTo128(sOrg)
printer.fontName = "Code 128"
printer.print sOrg 'print out with part barcode line, part squares
You may use following project which includes VB6 project and open Barcode Font
barcode fonts and encoders
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.