Zebra Zpl Ii Driver For Mac
Let me explain my usual deployment. I have customers on Windows which have Zebra printers. We install locally thoses printer using Generic/Text printer drivers. They connect via Remote Desktop to my Windows 2008 server.
My Application sends raw ZPL II code (text) to the printer driver and everything works. I now have a customer on MacOSX Yosemite 10.10.3. He's using Microsoft Remote Desktop app to connect. I can see the Zebra Printer in the printer list. When my Application prints to the printer driver, the Mac spool says 'Unable to convert PostScript File'. It's 'normal' since I send raw text to printer.
I then tried to add a Raw printer in MacOS, but it does'nt show up in Remote Desktop. What should I do? There is no such thing as a generic text printer on OSX. OSX internally treats EVERY printer as postscript at the OS level.
Then converts the postscript output to whatever language the printer needs (ZPLII in your case). So the Remote Desktop APP sees a 'postscript' printer on OSX and communicates that to your Windows server.
(Windows usually sees it as a 'MS ImageSetter device' which is a generic Postscript printer.) Your application ignores that and pushes the RAW ZPLII to the Mac anyway, but the Mac was expecting to receive Postscript and hence your error message when it tries to interpret the Postscript file (which is actually no Postscript, but ZPLII). This is nasty because you don't really have an easy way around that. If the customer printer is a network printer (I seem to recall the GXxxxt models have the regular Zebra LAN interface) you may be able to supply the raw ZPL file to the customer and have the customer send it manually to the printer using the good old lpr command. The customer would have to run something like this on a commandline in Terminal: lpr -H -P PORT1LF -l Please note: -H and -P are case-sensitve!! '-l' is a lowercase L.H (hostname) specifies the ip-address of the printer, -P the queue-name, -l means 'file is already formatted, don't touch the content'. Please note (2): PORT1LF is the normal queue-name used internally by Zebra LAN-interfaces. If the Zebra doesn't use a Zebra LAN interface but another brand you usually need to use 'auto' or 'text' for the -P parameter.
Consult the manual. EDIT added after some research On OSX you can create a so-called 'RAW' print-queue by using the commandline lpadmin tool or by using the CUPS webinterface at. However such RAW printers do not show up as regular printers in OSX, because OSX GUI applications absolutely need a printer to be Postscript. For non-Postscript printers CUPS provides a Postscript converter that translates the Postscript to something the non-Postscript printer understands. For a RAW printer this conversion to Postscript can't be done, so RAW printers are not offered to OSX GUI applications as valid print-devices.
(They can be used with the command-line print-tools like lpq, lpr, etc.) And that is why NO RDP client on OSX forwards them! They just forward regular printers. (Technically there is no reason why the RDP client couldn't present a RAW printer (using old-school unix lpr/lpq handling) over RDP as a 'Generic/Text Only' printer to Windows. But it would require extra programming to make this happen. And given that this particular usage is a very small niche I won't see this happen anytime soon.) Your only workaround, as far as I can tell, is the one I already mentioned. Supply the file to the user and have him print it locally using lpr. The printer is USB attached, but that is no problem.
Using the CUPS web-interface you can set up a USB printer as a raw print-queue. Part of this web-page explains how to do that. It even uses a Zebra as example.
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