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How do I Get an AS/400 to Print to a Zebra S4M Thermal Label Printer? How Do I Set up the Embosser?

I have a AS/400 model 170 with V4R5 running. I just purchases 2 Zebra S4M thermal label printers that I need our Dairyland Vision 400 application to print to. i need to know how to set up the embosser and how to set the print queue up appropriately. Does anyone have a set up something like this? if so, can I see your config's in order to help my situation? So far I have created a out queue CRTOUTQ and have had a programmer create the ZPL embosser, however when printing labels, the printer will recieve it, but only toggles between "data recieve" and "printer ready" i know something os wrong??? I have attached the text being sent to the printer from the outq...

Display Spooled File                                                        
 File  . . . . . :   EOP2                                                                                 Page/Line   1/1           
 Control . . . . .                                                                                        Columns     1 - 85        
 Find  . . . . . .                                                                                                                  
 *...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8....+                                              
 ^xa                                                                                                                                
 ^adn,30,14^fo10,30                                                                                                                 
  REDD, CLAYTON                                                                                                                     
 ^fs                                                                                                                                
 ^adn,30,14^fo0,70                                                                                                                  
  DOB:  3/05/1979    RM:                                                                                                            
 ^fs                                                                                                                                
 ^xz

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daveslater

here is the config we use for our zebra

CRTDEVPRT DEVD(zebra) DEVCLS(*VRT) TYPE(3812) MODEL(1) ONLINE(*NO) +
CTL(QVIRCD0006) FONT(011 *NONE) SEPDRAWER(*FILE) +
PRTERRMSG(*INFO) MSGQ(*LIBL/QSYSOPR) TRANSFORM(*YES) +
MFRTYPMDL(*WSCST) PPRSRC1(*NONE) PPRSRC2(*NONE) +
ENVELOPE(*NONE) ASCII899(*NO) IMGCFG(*NONE) CHRID(*SYSVAL) +
WSCST(BOSCSTLIB/BSCST4214) TEXT('Factory Zebra Printer') +
DEPLOCNAME(*NONE) PUBLISHINF(*UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN +
*UNKNOWN *BLANK (*UNKNOWN))

jimmyjamrmh

ASKER

Is this a Zebra S4M model? How is your print embosser programmed via ZPL? Thanks!

Theo Kouwenhoven

For some code-pages the translation form the "^" character goes wrong,
in that case you need to use the character "¬" (this is code EBCDIC Hex 5F)
so it will look like:
¬XA
¬JMA
¬LH10,30
¬LL291
¬LRY
¬LS0
¬PMN
¬PON
¬PR2
¬PF0
¬MNY
¬MMT
¬MTT
¬MD10
¬FO16,55¬CI0¬A0N,40,40¬FR¬FDTEST LABEL¬FS
¬PQ1,1,1,Y
¬XZ

jimmyjamrmh

ASKER

murphey2,

I am not sure what you are saying...are you saying the ZPL code I posted is wrong? If so what are you saying above...I lost. What should I change? Thanks for your post!

Theo Kouwenhoven

Try your character ' ^ ' in the example to replace by character ' ¬ '

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jimmyjamrmh

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Murphey2,

I will send to my programmer and try. I will let you know if this solves it! Thank you!

jimmyjamrmh

ASKER

murphey2,

another question...When looking at the ZPL II programming language it stated to use the "^" as the command. What does the "¬" do? will the Zebra printer accept this ...I did not find this command in the ZPL II programming language book? My programmer was stumped as well....please help!

jimmyjamrmh

ASKER

murphey2,

Disregard the previous question I understand it now. This is what I need!!

Theo Kouwenhoven

Hi Jimmy,

The "¬" character has nothing to do with the printer, it's the way the AS/400 codepage is translated between teh AS/400 EBCEDIC characterset and the printers ASCII interpretation of it.

Regards,
Murph