>>HOw slow are we talking about? Does it go below the 2 inch per second minimum rate that is specified? Is this version 2.01 of the printer driver. Because the documentation says that it gives ZPL II commands to the printer and that is suppose to be the fast way to go.
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>>So you had to custom write each of your label runs? Is that right?
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>Well, that's one thing I did not wrote about. I just had one label layout to work with, so It was the 'quick-and-dirty' (but fast) approach:
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>PROCEDURE zplfile
>PARAMETERS datfld1, datfld2
>ERASE zplfile.txt
>SET PRINTER TO zplfile.txt
>SET PRINTER ON
>? "^XA"
>? "^FB600,1,,C"
>? "^FO5,25^A0,85,70^FD"+datfld1+"^FS"
>? "^FO40,120^B3N,N,100,N^FD"+datfld2+"^FS"
>? "^XZ"
>SET PRINTER OFF
>SET PRINTER TO
>

>And then find a way of sending this to the printer. I don't know which version was it, but this was on a Win95 machine. It probably was an earlier version, since it's been more than six months. I don't want to find out. Everything is running smooth at this time. You can probably increase speed on this if instead of writing to a file you send this as a string directly to the printer. Darn it, you got me thinking now. HTH

I needed to generate labels with a Zebra printer about a year ago. I tried the Zebra printer driver and all I could get it to do was generate GPF's. I ended up doing it the same way as you except I sent the codes straight to the printer. I installed the generic text printer driver and created a printer named Zebra and used the SET PRINTER TO NAME "Zebra" command to send straight to the printer.