Zebra Printer

[id10t error]

Can someone please point me in the right direction for printing to a
zebra QL320 printer. I have the drive and Label Vista installed. I can
print a label with a barcode using the print on label Vista but who do
i do this from vb.net 2005. I have the following code but it only
prints out garbage chacters. Is there a better way of printing a
label?

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim p As System.IO.Ports.SerialPort

Dim sendValue As String = ""
Dim test As String = "! 0 100 100 50 1"
Dim test2 As String = "VB 128 1 3 50 50 175 123456789"
Dim test3 As String = "T 7 0 24 171 Barcode Value is
123456789"
Dim test4 As String = "FORM"
Dim test5 As String = "PRINT"
Try
p = New System.IO.Ports.SerialPort("COM1")
p.WriteTimeout = 500
p.ReadTimeout = 500

Try
p.Open()
p.WriteLine(test & "CR/LF")
p.WriteLine(test2 & "CR/LF")
p.WriteLine(test3 & "CR/LF")
p.WriteLine(test4 & "CR/LF")
p.WriteLine(test5 & "CR/LF")
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.Message)
Finally
If p.IsOpen Then p.Close()
p.Dispose()
p = Nothing
End Try
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
End Try

End Sub
End Class

 

[SurturZ]

Set the printer up as a generic text only printer then send ZPL to it.

 

[Family Tree Mike]

Can someone please point me in the right direction for printing to a
zebra QL320 printer. I have the drive and Label Vista installed. I can
print a label with a barcode using the print on label Vista but who do
i do this from vb.net 2005. I have the following code but it only
prints out garbage chacters. Is there a better way of printing a
label?

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim p As System.IO.Ports.SerialPort

Dim sendValue As String = ""
Dim test As String = "! 0 100 100 50 1"
Dim test2 As String = "VB 128 1 3 50 50 175 123456789"
Dim test3 As String = "T 7 0 24 171 Barcode Value is
123456789"
Dim test4 As String = "FORM"
Dim test5 As String = "PRINT"
Try
p = New System.IO.Ports.SerialPort("COM1")
p.WriteTimeout = 500
p.ReadTimeout = 500

Try
p.Open()
p.WriteLine(test & "CR/LF")
p.WriteLine(test2 & "CR/LF")
p.WriteLine(test3 & "CR/LF")
p.WriteLine(test4 & "CR/LF")
p.WriteLine(test5 & "CR/LF")
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.Message)
Finally
If p.IsOpen Then p.Close()
p.Dispose()
p = Nothing
End Try
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
End Try

End Sub
End Class

A couple of things that jump out at me are: 1) you don't set the important
factors on the com port, like BaudRate, Parity, etc. 2) you are sending
strings "CR/LF", which look possibly like you intend to send carriage return,
line feed pairs. Using WriteLine would be redundant though.

 

[id10t error]

Set the printer up as a generic text only printer then send ZPL to it.

--
David Streeter
Synchrotech Software
Sydney Australia









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David,

I did reaad about that yesterday. I will work on that today and let
you know how it works. I thank you for helping me on this


Dustin

 

[id10t error]

A couple of things that jump out at me are: 1) you don't set the important
factors on the com port, like BaudRate, Parity, etc.   2) you are sending
strings "CR/LF", which look possibly like you intend to send carriage return,
line feed pairs.  Using WriteLine would be redundant though.- Hide quoted text -

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Do I need to set the com port information if it is definfed for the
printer. Yes I was trying to use the carriage return. I found out how
to do this now. I was just very tired and upset at that point
yesterday.

 

[Family Tree Mike]

Do I need to set the com port information if it is definfed for the
printer. Yes I was trying to use the carriage return. I found out how
to do this now. I was just very tired and upset at that point
yesterday.

The settings need to be the same as the printer expects, or you would get
garbage on the printer end.

 

[id10t error]

The settings need to be the same as the printer expects, or you would get
garbage on the printer end.- Hide quoted text -

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Do you have an exaple Code of what i need?

 

[Family Tree Mike]

Do you have an exaple Code of what i need?

MSDN documents it pretty well on this page/example:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.ports.serialport.aspx

This example asks the user for settings, but presumably your printer docs
tell you what to use.