Sending File to Zebra Printer from NAV

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• lynge Member Posts: 85

  2020-03-20

  Are you writing ZPL commands directly to a spooler on the windows server?
  
  A few years ago (in a former job), i had the same issue.
  
  Unfortunately i don't have the code anymore and I cannot recall the exact issues we saw.
  But i can remember that we ended up in sending the ZPL commands directly to the printers TCP/IP ip-address and port (think we used dotnet directly in NAV for that?).
  It worked perfectly... So if your Zebra got at network interface that might be a solution.
  
  Note: I'm not sure if you can share the printer between multiple PCs this way - but it might actually work if the printer is intelligent enough.
  
  Best regards,
  Gert Lynge

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• xStepa Member Posts: 106

  2020-03-20

  Hi, if you are printing from report, than you can use report.Print ...
  In case of ZPL string, use TCPClient (System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient) for a printer with IP and Copy (System.IO.File) for a shared printer

  Regards
  xStepa

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• Juhl Member Posts: 724

  2020-03-20

  I wrote a blog about it once, maybe it could help.
  https://navandbeyond.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/direct-print-using-net/

  Follow me on my blog juhl.blog

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• Emaz Member Posts: 18

  2020-03-22

  Hi,
  
  @lynge : yes, this is my aim.
  
  @xStepa: i don´t use Reports. I want to send a ZPL String to a shared Printer. Maybe you also have an example how the programming code can look like?
  
  @Juhl: I will also try the suggestion in your blog, too.
  
  Thanks @all.
  
  Regards.

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• xStepa Member Posts: 106

  2020-03-22

  of course, no magic ...
  

  PrintedText := FileHandler.GetTempFileName();
  
  SharedPrinter.AppendAllText(PrintedText, pTextToPrint, Encoding.Default);
  SharedPrinter.Copy(PrintedText, pZebraPrinter);
  
  IF SharedPrinter.Exists(PrintedText) THEN
    SharedPrinter.Delete(PrintedText);
  

  Regards
  xStepa

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• Emaz Member Posts: 18

  2020-03-23 edited 2020-03-24

  Hi xStepa,
  
  it works.
  
  Thanks @all.
  
  Regards
  Emaz

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