Newbie - Printing to Zebra printer

[CC]

I'm a newbie to .NET and Google. I am trying to write a C#
application that prints a barcode label to a Zebra (thermal) printer.
I am using the PrintDocument class (System.Drawing.Printing
namespace). Though it prints to the printer, it only prints the
actual ZPL code (e.g. "^XA^LH05,...). I've tried to switch to the
Generic /Text Only driver, but before it gets to my ZPL code, it
displays the error "The data area passed to a system call is too
small." I noticed that I cannot even print a test page using this
driver. I have W2K SP3. I retrieved a pre-sp3 Driver.cab file and
tried swapping out the driver files that begin with TTY and UNI, but
that didn't work, either.

Can anyone help??

Thanks

 

[Ron Allen]

You will probably need to print directly to the printer to avoid having
Unicode output by the program. See
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2002/Oct/PrintDirect.asp for a sample
program.

Ron Allen

> I'm a newbie to .NET and Google. I am trying to write a C#

> application that prints a barcode label to a Zebra (thermal) printer.

> I am using the PrintDocument class (System.Drawing.Printing

> namespace). Though it prints to the printer, it only prints the

> actual ZPL code (e.g. "^XA^LH05,...). I've tried to switch to the

> Generic /Text Only driver, but before it gets to my ZPL code, it

> displays the error "The data area passed to a system call is too

> small." I noticed that I cannot even print a test page using this

> driver. I have W2K SP3. I retrieved a pre-sp3 Driver.cab file and