Zebra 2844 label printer

rbuser

I'm using Delphi 7 and ReportBuilder 9.03. I need to print labels
(including barcodes). If I print to my HP printer it works great, but if I
print to the Zebra 2844, only the first label prints. Then, after several
seconds, the printer retries the print job and the first label is printed
again and I have to kill the print job (or the 1st label will just keep
reprinting as it retries the print job). The rest of the labels are never
printed.

I'd really appreciate any help anyone can give me.

Thanks,

Mike

rbuser

Hi Mike,
We are using the same setup as you and it works fine, but i do remember
getting some
issues when using the USB port, will look through my notes, and also the
paper sizes
have the be set in RB and also Printer Defaults and also Printing
preferences, once set
go back and check that they are in the Zebra drivers Eg 3" by 4" is still 3"
by 4".


Colin

nicocizik

Hi Mike,

Perhaps the following article will help...

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Article: Printing to Continuous Paper
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1. Layout

For continuous printing (for example a receipt) use Title/Summary and
removing the Header/Footer. Set the PrintHeight of each to phDynamic. Layout
the DetailBand to print a single line item. Set the margins to 0 or to the
smallest that the printer driver will support (some printers have an
unprintable area).

With this configuration The Report will generate a Title followed by a
variable number of Detail bands that span pages if needed, and then finally
print a Summary at the end.

2. Pagination

a. dtPrinter

Some printer drivers have a continuous paper size setting. If not then try
setting the paper size to be very small - perhaps the size of the tallest
band in the layout. Or try setting the page height to be the size of a
detail band. Note that some printer drivers will only accept page sizes
within a certain range of paper sizes.

b. dtReportTextFile

With the above layout, the report text file will generate the page breaks
properly, however the device will fill up a page with blank lines. You can
control the number of lines per page by configuring the CharacterGrid
property in the Report.BeforePrint event:

example:


procedure TForm1.ppReport1BeforePrint(Sender: TObject);
var
lDevice: TppReportTextFileDevice;
begin

if (ppReport1.FileDevice <> nil) and (ppReport1.FileDevice is
TppReportTextFileDevice)then
begin
lDevice := TppReportTextFileDevice(ppReport1.FileDevice);

{120 characters per line, 66 lines per page}
lDevice.CharacterGrid(120, 66);
end;

end;

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com