Matt Horn
Member
I am our CNC administrator for our JDE 9.0 install. I have been researching ways to utilize Zebra ZM400 label printers we currently use on our network with our new JDE install. I understand Zebra printers are not officially compatible with E1 but it seems a lot of people have gotten them to work just fine with E1. We would like to have labels print immediate to our Zebra printers. I have found several very useful posts on this forum and some useful articles spread throughout the Internet. From my research it looks like a have a few options and I was hoping anyone using Zebra label printers could provide recommendation and guidance as to what works for them and if it would be applicable for our install. The options I believe to have are the following. I understand these at a high level but any tips or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
1. Setup the Zebra printers on my Linux Enterprise Servers as Line printers and set them up the E1 printer program as a line printers. User Zebra Bartender software to create the ZPL code and copy this into ERW so report produces text output in ZPL format.
2. Use BI Publisher with Zebra Enterprise Connector.
3. Use third party software to print to Zebra printers such as FormScape, Create!Forms, Loftware Print Server, etc.
For what is is worth, we already own Bartender licenses and have an OBIEE server so if we can make use of them that would be great.
Here is the information about our environment. Let me know if I can provide any additional information to help provide useful feedback. Thanks in advance!
Tools Release 8.98.3
Database Server - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 64-bit, Oracle 11g Database
Enterprise Servers - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 64-bit
JAS Server - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 64-bit
Deployment Server - Windows Server 2008 64-bit
1. Setup the Zebra printers on my Linux Enterprise Servers as Line printers and set them up the E1 printer program as a line printers. User Zebra Bartender software to create the ZPL code and copy this into ERW so report produces text output in ZPL format.
2. Use BI Publisher with Zebra Enterprise Connector.
3. Use third party software to print to Zebra printers such as FormScape, Create!Forms, Loftware Print Server, etc.
For what is is worth, we already own Bartender licenses and have an OBIEE server so if we can make use of them that would be great.
Here is the information about our environment. Let me know if I can provide any additional information to help provide useful feedback. Thanks in advance!
Tools Release 8.98.3
Database Server - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 64-bit, Oracle 11g Database
Enterprise Servers - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 64-bit
JAS Server - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 64-bit
Deployment Server - Windows Server 2008 64-bit