When connected, my Zebra printer the S4M is recognised by Windows with the "ZDesigner S4M-203dpi ZPL" driver and I'd like to use the EPL Driver "ZDesigner S4M-203dpi EPL".
I tried to install it manually, delete the ZPL driver, use the Zebra utility setup, upgrade the firmware to the last version but I didn't find the switch option.
I found one answer : http://www.fixya.com/support/t1950296-zebra_sm4_label_printer_change_zpl_epl
You will need to change the firmware on this printer in order to be able to change the language. I don't believe this printer will allow you to change the language using the advanced options in the menu unless they have recently changed this.
I found also a web page which proposed to download old driver for the S4M but I prefer to avoid it. http://www.jamfrance.com/site/support/download.asp?categorie=13
Note : To verify if the EPL driver was working, I used a custom application which send EPL data and I tryied to use Zebra firmware downloader which have 2 interesting options : Send EPL page and Send ZPL Page. You probably guessed, only the ZPL page works.
well i found the solution : https://km.zebra.com/kb/index?page=answeropen&type=open&searchid=1324718583535&answerid=16777216&iqaction=5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fkm.zebra.com%2Fkb%2Findex%3Fpage%3Dcontent%26id%3DSO8156%26actp%3Dsearch%26viewlocale%3Den_US&highlightinfo=6292684,73,91#
The EPL firmware is listed in the Special Firmware section on Zebra.com.
I have to install the special firmware of the S4M and it works .. it's sad that they don't explain the "Special" term (and in the release note also)
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I've been using GSView 5.0 and GhostScript 9.52 to do postscript printing on vellums. However, today GSView started throwing error codes on every .ps file I've attempted to print. I'm using Windows 10 Pro and the printer is an Epson Artisan 1430.
The error is as follows:
GPL Ghostscript 9.52: **** Could not open file 00000e60.
Unrecoverable error: invalidfileaccess in showpage
Operand stack:
--nostringval-- 1 true
gsapi_execute_cont returns -9
gsapi_exit returns 0
I've tried changing permissions for the files and different printer drivers to no avail. I'm sorry I can't be more descriptive on this issue as it's hard to articulate.
OK... You must have recently updated to a new version of Ghostscript. I can reproduce your problem, and it comes down to a recent (documented) change in behaviour for Ghostscript.
Due to the well-documented public disclosure of security exploits using Ghostscript a couple of years ago, the current version (and any version since 9.50) now defaults to running in SAFER mode.
When running in SAFER, Ghostscript prevents access by the PostScript interpreter to the file system. For those unaware of the problem; PostScript is a full-blown programming language and, by design, permits programs to access the underlying file system. SAFER mode prevents this so that malicious PostScript programs cannot, for example, run arbitrary code on your computer.
It seems that GSView is using Ghostscript in a way which requires it to read the PostScript program to be printed using the PostScript interpreter, instead of the more normal practice of specifying the input file as one of the arguments. For simplicity the input file is granted read availability by the Ghostscript executable. I suspect that GSview is using the DLL directly and not adding that extra information.
Now there are ways to permit access to specific files or folders, so that existing PostScript programs can continue to work, but obviously this requires some changes in the calling application. GSview has not changed in, literally, years so obviously it does not take any such action.
You can, however, get GSview to work as before. Under Options select Advanced Configure. In the resulting dialog look for the 'Ghostscript options' text box. In there add -dNOSAFER, that should get it to work again, though you may have to reboot the computer if the OS print subsystem has stalled.
Yes, this does open you up to the sorts of exploits I alluded to above, you should only do this with PostScript programs that you trust.
There have been a few questions on SO about emulating a ZPL printers etc, but all of them require some native application or a an app.
(see here: Emulate ZPL printer )
My Question:
Is it possible to emulate the EPL2 printer language to render a .png on a unix machine via code?
You'd have to code an app to do it. As far as I know, Zebra hasn't released the fonts built into the printer though, so it would be very tedious...
For a research project about printing nanofluids with an Piezo electric printer I want to see the the code that the computer sends to the printer. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 and have an Epson Stylus SX600FW printer.
Using Ghostscript 9.18 I want to print a simple ps file and obtain the output file that is being send to the printer. This file should contain some ESC/P sequences if I am right. Now I have some problems with the rigth driver is Ghostscript.
I want to print the file using : gs -sDEVICE=epson -sOutputFile=%pipe%lpr test.ps. The printer starts the print gibberish. Just some letters and symbols on page, not the two words that are in my test.ps.
So probably ghostscript doesn't use the rigth driver. How can I get gs to use the escp2-of-sx600fw or Epson-Stylus_Office_SX600FW driver, as stated on the gutenprint site?
Kind Regards Rick
If you want to use a non-standard device, then you will have to rebuild Ghostscript and tell it to include the device's source in the build.
Nobody has supplied us with source to an Epson SX600FW device, so we don't supply it, not even in the contrib directory. There is a 'vector' Espon device in there, but its not built in as standard.
Looks like Gutenprint itself drives the printer. Presumably it only uses Ghostscript to render PostScript and PDF files into some intermediate format that it can then convert onwards to the specified device format. If I'm right, then you can't make Ghostscript use the Gutenprint device driver, as that will be specific to GutenPrint. You'll have to use Gutenprint to do that.
I know this sounds weird, but I am making a program in Dart in browser that takes input from the Griffin Powermate USB know controller. So far, I have been using the included drivers and mapped a click on the knob to a click on the mouse. Now I have run into a problem with this: The default drivers send both "buttonDown" and "buttonUp" events at the time of release, and nothing at the time when I would expect "buttonDown"-events.
I assume I will have to ignore the drivers and dive into the details. So I have the following questions:
Is there a magical driver replacement(preferably for OSX, but I can install another OS) that fixes the problem immediately?
Is there a way to access generic USB HID devices in Dart? (like 'node-hid' for node.js)
In my school days, i developed a hotel management system in legacy programming language foxpro 2.6. Few months ago, i revived the application and its running pretty well on windows xp. But, i am stuck at printing. Right now i am printing the page to a text file. Afterward i manually open the file and call the print function on that.
I googled and found no effective tutorial or link or anything as to how can i get to print directly from foxpro 2.6. The printer is USB supported and i have tried the trick of adding another printer for virtual port LPT1 and then spooling. Nothing worked.
Later i downloaded an application which acts as a spooler and sends any file that is added to the specified directory to Printer. Still, no success.
Can anyone help me with a short example, a link or a tutorial which guides me to the printing settings in foxpro 2.6
Thanks !!
Install the printer and share it. You may need to set permissions to allow Authenticated Users to use the printer.
Add NET USE LPT1: \CRAIG\USBPRINTER to the logon script for the user's profile.
For help on logon scripts, look up "To assign a logon script to a profile" in XP Help.
Not true - it works perfectly well in Vista and Windows 7, as long as they are the 32-bit versions of those operating systems.
You might find the following useful. Disclaimer: I wrote it a long time ago.
Painless Legacy FoxPro Applications On Modern Networks