Re: iSeries label printer

It's been some time since I worked with Zebra printers but I came up with a
clumsy process that worked well.

I used their design tool to lay out the forms (packing lists,
inventory tags, invoices) and then copied the EBCDIC control characters
(from their generated for description) into my PRTF source. Compile the
printer file, get the label printer talking to the AS/400, and you're done.

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 12:08 PM Greg Wilburn <
gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would stick with Zebra... We print several hundred thousand labels a
year on Zebra printers. NONE of them have a "box". All are direct
Ethernet.

Here is what we use to create the device descriptions (we also use TL
Ashford to product many of our labels) - that's where the WSCST comes from,
but I'm not sure you'll need it.

I even have a web service that receives a ZPL data stream (Endicia USPS
Labels) that I save to an IFS file and "copy" it directly to the printer.

Hope this helps.

CRTDEVPRT DEVD(ZEB10) DEVCLS(*LAN) TYPE(3812) MODEL(1) LANATTACH(*IP)
PORT(9100) ATTACH(*DIRECT) ONLINE(*YES)
FONT(11 *NONE) FORMFEED(*AUTOCUT) SEPDRAWER(*FILE)
PRTERRMSG(*INFO)
ACTTMR(170) INACTTMR(*SEC15) LINESPEED(19200)
WORDLEN(8) PARITY(*NONE)
STOPBITS(1) TRANSFORM(*YES)
MFRTYPMDL(*WSCST) PPRSRC1(*LETTER)
PPRSRC2(*LETTER) ENVELOPE(*NUMBER10)
ASCII899(*NO) IMGCFG(*NONE)
CHRID(*SYSVAL) RMTLOCNAME('192.168.1.20')
WSCST(TLABARCODE/Z4XIWSCST)
SYSDRVPGM(*IBMSNMPDRV) TEXT('Zebra 10')
PUBLISHINF(*UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *BLANK
(*UNKNOWN))

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Christopher Bipes
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 5:04 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: iSeries label printer

All I can remember is there is a box that the Ethernet is connected to and
the printer connects to that. I would have to look at the configuration to
get the details. What I really am looking for is a label printer that
works with the iSeries. Forget the Zebra part. What else is out there
that someone on this list uses.

Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Roger Harman
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 1:55 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: iSeries label printer

It's been years since I dealt with Zebra printers but I recall them as
being SCS. The ZPL drives any "graphical" elements.
I don't ever recall having to configure them as IPDS.


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