Tuesday, November 1, 2011

What else you can do with a Zebra printer?


Zebra printers which support ZBI 2.0 application can make your life much easier.
- You can create stand-alone applications that live in the printer that don't require the printer to be connected to a PC or network. This is a great idea if you have downtimes and you still want to print barcodes.

- You can connect a bar code scanner, weigh scale or other peripheral directly to the printer to provide data for labels.

- You can interface with database applications to format data fields into barcodes or text for label output.

- You can process data input and output from the printer's applicator port.

So what kind barcodes you can print with a Zebra printer?

Linear Bar codes
Two-dimentional bar codes

  1. Code 11
  2. Code 39
  3. Code 93
  4. Code 128 with subsets A/B/C and UCC Case Codes
  5. ISBT-128
  6. UPC-A
  7. UPC-E
  8. EAN-8
  9. EAN-13
  10. UPC and EAN 2 or 5 digit extensions
  11. Plessey
  12. Postnet
  13. Standard 2 of 5
  14. Industrial 2 of 5
  15. Interleaved 2 of 5
  16. LOGMARS
  17. MSI
  18. Codabar
  19. RSS014

  1. Code 49
  2. Maxi Code
  3. PDF-417
  4. QR Code
  5. Codablock
  6. DataMatrix
  7. Micto-PDF417
  8. Aztec
How easy is it to print a barcode with Zebra Printer?
Let's look at it. Lately you can see QR Barcodes in everywhere. Let's create one.
Here is the command that creates a QR Barcode.
^BQa,b,c,d,e

a is the field orientation
b is the model (1 is original, 2 is enhanced which is recommended.
c is the magnification factor (it can be a number from 1 to 10)
d is reliability level (H is ultra-high, Q is high, M is standard, L is high density)
e is character mode (N is numeric, A is alphanumeric, A and M are Data input)

^XA
^FO200,100
^BQN,2,5^FDQA,http://h-savran.blogger.com/^FS
^XZ


Now, we need to send this ZPL (Zebra Printer Language) to the printer. We have to send it directly to the printer. You can use the Zebra's printer status tool to accomplish that. If you are trying to send a ZPL Command to the printer from your code, I am going to share with you a PrintDirect class in future for this purpose. By the way, here is the barcode we just created.



As you can see, you don't need to buy any third party product to create a barcode as long as you have a zebra printer. You can use a stringbuilder to create your ZPL commands and send it to a zebra printer directly to create barcodes.

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