Zebra Printer using hpnpl

[George Abraham_3]

Hello Admins,

I am runing a HPUX 11i system and i am trying to configure a Zebra label printer. Normally what i do is use the
#/opt/hpnpl/bin/addque -q queuename -h hostname -i driverid.

I tried using various driver id number but none of them match. Tried using the generic printer driver but it prints Junk.

CAn anyone help me out?What model should i use?

Thanks in advance
George Abraham

[Steve Steel]

Hi


I had something similar a year or two ago and ended up with the gereric plotter since these things actually plot and not print


That may help

addqueue -l is good to see available scripts


Steve Steel

[Thomas Bianco]

this is probably unrelated to your problem, but the zebra printers actually use a propritary plotting language, not HPGL, postscript, PCL or any other sane format.

i'd check for vendor supplied translation programs.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Bear in mind that the hpnpl commands only apply to HP JetDirect devices (or those that emulate the protocol). JetDirect printers in HP-UX speaker are "Network" printers while those that use the LPD protocol are referred to as "Remote" printers and are not added using the hppi commands.

[Phillip Renner]

We use these printers at cingular. I just add them as dumb printers in jetadmin or jetdirect and they work fine.