Re: Bitmaps
- From: "tleaders...gmail.com" <tleaders@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:52:27 -0000
On Aug 23, 10:29 pm, Richard <rip...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 24, 2:45 am, jmoore...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Aug 22, 2:22 pm, jmoore...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have a logo (bitmap) that I want to send to a datamax printer for
the top of a label. Pretty new to datamax label printers. If I have
the bmp on my computer in the data directory. Not sure how to
accomplish getting this on the label. Should I create an indexed file
with the .bmp as the field and read the file and load it or is there a
way to actually place it in memory on the datamax printer? Any help
would be appreciated. Thank you!
ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED
It may be that no one has even heard of "datamax" printer let alone
tried to send it a bitmap. You may be better in a group that cares
about such things, but I have no idea what that would be.
I did write Cobol code to send a bitmap to dot matrix printer. It
wasn't too bad once I worked out it had to be done from the end. They
were signatures and I had control of how they were scanned, sized and
so on but it did require understanding the graphics mode of the
printer.
Now that I search Google (have you done this) I find:
"""Love your Datamax, BUT need to run Zebra ZPL code? Now you don't
have to buy a Zebra printer. DataCol has been supplying Datamax
printers that run a 100% ZPL emulation since July 2006. The printers
can be swapped between DPL (Datamax language) and ZPL input, either
from the LCD menu or with a simple software command. This FREE
Firmware upgrade can be installed on ANY of the printers listed
below."""
Now I have done Zebra ZPL and it ain't particularly hard, but Datamax
DPL is obviously different.
You probably will need to read the bitmap as a SEQUENTIAL file and
will get an error when the last 'record' is read as it is unlikely to
be a nice multiple of the 'records' you read it into. If it was ZPL
you would then need to convert the bytes to ASCII hex valuess (2 hex
characters per byte) and stick them on a ^DDa,b,data command. Where
a=total bytes and b=bytes per row.
As long as you are printing logos and not an image that changes with
every label, and requesting label on an ASCII machine,
I would recommend that you download one of the free label design
programs and layout the label you need to print. Include all the
fields that will be on the final label. Example, is you are printing a
mailing label include the name an address fields on the label.
Then print the label to "File". This will create an ASCII text file
that contains all the codes needed to print the label.
Now that you have the codes you can either put the entire label layout
into working storage or read it as a sequential text file, and replace
the name/address field values with the correct information.
I used Zebra's Bar-one software when I did this process. Bar-One is
now discontinued, but you should be able to find something
Good luck
Tom
.
- References:
- Bitmaps
- From: jmoore207
- Re: Bitmaps
- From: jmoore207
- Re: Bitmaps
- From: Richard
- Bitmaps
- Prev by Date: Re: "forward" references (was: COBOL subscript range checking
- Next by Date: Re: Regarding EVALUATE TRUE
- Previous by thread: Re: Bitmaps
- Next by thread: The pre-interview question...
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
