ssolberg
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So the company just dropped one of these printers (a S4M model) on my desk and says "make it print some labels from JDE". Ok.... In particular they are looking to print what they are calling "pick slip labels" from Sales Processing (so it would be some custom type flavor of P42520 sort of I'm guessing) but my question for the list is "Has anyone out there had to deal with these printers before and what have you done with them?"
I've read up a bit on them but still lost. There is lots of talk about "label design software" for them but I'm not sure if I need that? I think they are moving towards the printers that support the ZPL stuff but I also think they have some older printers that only support the EPL stuff so I think I have to work under that assumption. They might want to eventually move into some barcoding on these labels (future) so also don't want to possibly limit myself. (I think that is where the Label Design app comes into play...) I was hoping to go directly to the label printer with a spool file but I'm not sure if that is the way to go either?
Any help and pointing in directions I'm missing would be really helpful. Thanks in advance.
I've read up a bit on them but still lost. There is lots of talk about "label design software" for them but I'm not sure if I need that? I think they are moving towards the printers that support the ZPL stuff but I also think they have some older printers that only support the EPL stuff so I think I have to work under that assumption. They might want to eventually move into some barcoding on these labels (future) so also don't want to possibly limit myself. (I think that is where the Label Design app comes into play...) I was hoping to go directly to the label printer with a spool file but I'm not sure if that is the way to go either?
Any help and pointing in directions I'm missing would be really helpful. Thanks in advance.