Zebra Label Printing and JDE

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.
 
No, you can't go directly to the printer with a spool file because of
the ZPL stuff. Look at TL Ashford barcode software for the iSeries -
www.tlashford.com



We've been using it for years and it works great. It has a GUI design
piece to layout your labels, and has RPG programs you can call from your
application to print the labels.



Bob Cagle

IT Manager

Lynk, Inc.



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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.

Sannan Solberg Programmer/Developer/Anything-They-Give-Me World A7.3 c11
 
It's fairly easy to write the code in RPG to print to these printers. You just have to send it some "funny" print strings...i.e.

Oqsysprt e nu3 label 1
O '=ACXA'
O +0 '=ACPRC'
O +0 '=ACLH10,0=ACFS'
O +0 '=ACBY4,3.0=ACFO50,15=ACBUN,10
O +0 ',N,Y=ACFR=ACFD'
O*
O wrk12a
O +0 '=ACFS'

You just NEED the programming manual....it's all defined within. It will take you about a days messing around to begin to "get it"

Chuck
 
We use TL Ashford to print the labels. You just pass a data structure with your data via a call to their program and they take care of printing the label. Also the lable design is stored seperate from the program so you can make changes to the label without changing your program. You can also change to different label priters with out changes to your programs

Andy Renk
Chambers & Owen
World 7.3 cum 8
 
Re: Zebra Label Printing and JDE; Try BarTender

Sannan, Years ago our World shop implemented BarTender barcoding software to print to our Zebra printers. It resides on a Windows server, so is not host-centric on the System i like T.L. Ashford. We wrote a Visual Basic program to interface it to JDE. Address is here --> http://www.seagullscientific.com/aspx/Products.aspx
EricL
 
Similarly, I have a project just dumped on my desk to configure a
DataMax I Class Model 4212 printer to also print labels. Can anyone
help with this?

Cheryl

Cheryl Carpenter
Senior Programmer/Analyst
K & M Associates L.P.
425 Dexter Street
Providence, R.I. 02907
Telephone: 401-461-4300 Ext. 2427
Direct Line: 401-784-2427
E-Mail: [email protected]
Web: www.kandmassociates.com
 
Re: RE: Zebra Label Printing and JDE

I second the Bartender software. We use it to print labels from a windows machine via odbc. It is quite handy!

Andy
 
Sannan, Today we purchased T.L. Ashford's Barcode400 software for our Zebra printers. I am happy!
We will begin using this and move away from Bartender.
EricL 918-292-9142
 
I've also implemented many solutions using LabelView from Oneworld as well. All you need to do is drop a text file containing fields you use on the label and it'll print. The software is quite cheap too.
 
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