Initial use of zpl

I haven't written a blog for a long time. With this limited spare time, I will write my thoughts on the zpl technology I have recently studied.

Because the project needs to print the barcode, the company bought a zebra gt800 barcode printer, the first contact to print, really a little overwhelmed. step by step, I first studied the Java printing service and thought it was still useful. then I tried to print the bar code using the Java printing service. The result was so confusing that it was not supported. (There must be a way to print it, but I did not study it in depth, otherwise, Java is too weak ). later I turned to zpl, because I found that the gt800 printer Manual supports zpl and EPL programming, Shenma .... what is this? Can programming be performed? Isn't it my business ??? So Google + Baidu, looking for it, the original printer has a built-in programming language, to the printer to deliver zpl code, the printer will explain and execute the code.

Very good. Now I can find the trick. I can use zpl to type the bar code. I can type two bars at a time.

The bar code I used is 30 * 15mm thermal paper. The thermal paper can be printed without a carbon belt, provided that a printer supports thermal printing is required. Of course, my gt800 is a thermal printer.

The following is my zpl code:

^ XA
^ Lh300, 0
^ By2, 2.0, 60
^ Fo10, 20 ^ ban, 60, N ^ fdcp121001 ^ FS
^ Fo80, 85 ^ a0n, 20, 20 ^ fdcp121001 ^ FS
^ Xz

Send the above Code to the printer and print the barcode and number on the 30 * 15mm printer paper. The barcode is on top and the number is below.

Here, I would like to remind you that the printer is printed from the upper left corner (0, 0) by default. The upper left corner refers to the front of the printer and the upper left corner opposite the person, that is, the upper left corner of the printer. the bar code is in line with our perspective.

30 * 15mm of the printing paper is clamped in the middle of the exit, which requires ^ lh300, 0 to move the default printing position to the left 300pdi position.