Re: Printer commands

Thanks Bill. When Zebra gave this to me, they said I might need to
tweak it and I think he said something about "30 dots" and made it sound
easy.

I called their support line but was on hold 18 minutes without anyone
answering.

Why I even need to do this on a new printer is beyond me. I also had to
upgrade the firmware just to make the printer usable here.

We had 10 QL420 units (no plus) that were flawless and these are
printers from hell.

Great hardware, abysmal support.

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On Behalf Of Bill
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Printer commands

Burns, Bryan wrote:

The following commands, sent as a file to a Zebra QL420plus printer,
changed the printer to stop feeding labels about 3 mm after the

tear-off

perforation (the feed was previously stopping a few millimeters short

of

the tear-off bar).

I can interpret them for you, but can't really tell you how to fix it.

~jc^xa^jus^xz

Set Media Sensor Calibration (likely what caused the change)
Start of Label Format
Save Current configuration settings (why it's now permanent)
End of Label Format

! DF RUN.BAT

Store format commands as a string to be later merged. I believe the
remaining are related to this.

Does this mean anything to anyone? What number would I change to

shorten

the feed by about 3 mm?

Doesn't sound like modifying any of these commands will fix your
problem, except to stop doing the Media Sensor Calibration. I got this
info from a ZPL programming manual.

Bill