Hi mark.
I've got a Zebra TLP 3842 printer and am doing a bit of testing.
I tried downloading your suggested text file (as I'm goint thru a USB port I printed directly as I'm not sure how to Copy to Lpt1 for a USB port )
Anyway, just the text appeared on the printer
I presume I heve to 'Set' the printer into Eltron mode to intrpret the characters...any idea of how this is done ?

Regards,
Gerard



>Hi Gerard,
>
>PMFJI, Ken has given you some great advice.
>
>I've done butterfly, barbell, jewelry labels on Zebra printers and wanted to share the code with you:
>
>SET CONSOLE OFF
>SET PRINTER TO rpt6.txt ADDITIVE
>SET PRINT ON
>? "N"
>? "R"+LTRIM(STR(llblmargin,2,0))+",0"
>? 'D15'
>? 'A0,0,0,2,1,1,N,"'+mldescr+'"'
>? 'B280,0,0,1C,2,4,40,N,"'+TRIM(mbpartno)+'"'
>? 'A0,20,0,2,1,1,N,"'+RIGHT(SPACE(10)+mdollar+LTRIM(STR(mbprice,9,2)),10)+'"'
>? 'A300,45,0,2,1,1,N,"'+TRIM(mbpartno)+'"'
>? 'P'+LTRIM(STR(mcopy,9,0))
>?
>SET PRINT OFF
>SET PRINTER TO
>SET CONSOLE ON
>
>This creates a text file that can be sent to a Zebra printer using EPL2 (Eltron Programming Language 2/Page Mode) with a margin of llblmargin, density of 15, description of mldescr, code 128 mode c barcode of mbpartno, a currency symbol of mdollar, a price of mbprice, a human-readable barcode of mbpartno and mcopy number of copies.
>
>This will print a jewelry label with barcode on left side and price and description on the right side.
>
>Since there is very little room to print a barcode and you need to print it big enough that a scanner can scan it, I used Code 128C barcode and limited the barcode to a 6-digit string of numbers.
>
>Another tip if you want to use EPL2 programming: If your Zebra printer comes with BarTender barcode printing software, you can design your label in BarTender and then print it to a text file. The text file will consist of the EPL commands that you can then integrate into your own program.
>
>HTH,
>Mark