*RESOLVED* Zebra Label Printer: Version 905.607A

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We have managed to get all our zebra printers working with a number of crystal "tags" including the built in ones as well as some entirely custom ones. One of the tricks to getting them to work is open the crystal report, then page setup and make sure to select "no printer ( optimize for screen display)" and "disassociate formatting page size and printer paper size".

Secondly, if the prints are coming out sideways you need to realize there is a bug that messes up the reports if they are wider than they are tall. So to print a 4" wide x 2"tall tag you must set the crystal page size to 4x4. Then fiddle with the zebra printer settings to get it print only the top 4"x1.5". Silly, but it will do it.

The whole process is a mess though. No question about it. Good Luck.

Tom

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, melissa hietala <kevmel822@...> wrote:
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> So this is what Dustin got from being on the phone with support:
> "Was working with Epicor this morning once again, their final explanation was that there is a limitation within Crystal that doesn’t allow you to print to a zebra label printer." Seriously ??
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> Obviously since a lot of you are running with Zebra printers, this is absolutely ridiculous. Nothing on the responses yet has seemed to make a difference.
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> Here is a little other nugget though that may jar something for some of you:
>     We can print one of our versions of labels off of Dustin's computer and one in the Shipping office, but not off of either of the 2 in the actual shipping area. One of our tech guys reinstalled Epicor on both last week and they worked, but when the came in the next day they didn't work again for this label.
>   Again on a completely different Zebra printer, Dustin can print same part tags for a customer, but they will not print correctly from either of those 2 systems.
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> Any other thoughts or direction you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
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> Melissa Hietala
> UMC, Inc.
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> From: cubcrafters_it <jason.navarrete@...>
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 12:14 PM
> Subject: [Vantage] Re: Zebra Label Printer: Version 905.607A
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> I'd love to get more info on what specifically is buggy w/ CR2008 SP5 runtimes and epicor.
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> Did the tech you talked w/ have anything positive to say about SP4?
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> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, John Driggers <waffqle@> wrote:
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> > FWIW we run SP5 with 9 all over the place without issue.
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> > > I just heard from a reliable technical resource not to use SP5 runtimes
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Do you still have your CR .rpt files defining a 'square' label for your wider-than-tall label when trying the other runtime versions? I'm slowly working through the process of trying different combinations and finding that:

- Zebra Drivers, CR 2008 SP3: 'square' tag prints small, 'rectangular' tag prints rotated
- Zebra Drivers, CR 2008 SP4: 'square' tag prints small, 'rectangular' tag prints GOOD

I'm also going to try SP5 runtimes, and might consider running the seagull drivers too if I can use them to get a better handle on deployment and maintenance of the drivers...

I too went around and 'squared' all my label definitions when going to 9.05, but we've got some internal tags that keep track of issuing, and sometimes those print multiple tags, and i'm loosing data between the first and second tag (because of the square shape), if that makes sense.

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "pbparker" <scrumbus@...> wrote:
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> I tried the Seagull drivers and had no success, and I've tried SP4 and SP5 and found it made no difference either unfortunately.
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> I've also run into the same issues you mentioned below of having the postage sized labels.
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> Seems like of all the things to battle with this software, this shouldn't be one of them.
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> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Lisser, Jennifer" <Jennifer.Lisser@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm using the Seagull Scientific drivers. I've tried disassociating the paper size, rotating the label, patching the developer's CR2008, tricking the paper size. The only time I got the label to print in the right direction was setting paper size to 8-1/2x11, but then the print driver shrunk my text to postage-stamp size.
> >
> > What I haven't tried yet is going to CR2008 SP4 on the viewer. The tech wasn't specific about what is buggy in SP5 but I trust this guy. If I can get this to work with SP4 I'll call it a done deal. I won't get to testing this until next week though. If someone comes up with a fix in the meantime I'd be grateful if they would share!
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> > Jenn
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No I don't, in fact I wasn't aware of the whole wider than tall bug, so mine are still defined as 4 x 2. I've not tried the whole trick of making them square, but I'm still not sure if that's going to fix the dimension problem I have where the drivers think the media in the labeler is something incorrect as well.

I guess it's worth a try to make it square and see if that's resolved.

Yes, we print multiple tags as well, so if I had square ones I could see losing the data between first and second prints, which would then bring me back to square one of having the issues again.

I guess the real problem is the 4 wide by 2 high apparently.

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "cubcrafters_it" <jason.navarrete@...> wrote:
>
> Do you still have your CR .rpt files defining a 'square' label for your wider-than-tall label when trying the other runtime versions? I'm slowly working through the process of trying different combinations and finding that:
>
> - Zebra Drivers, CR 2008 SP3: 'square' tag prints small, 'rectangular' tag prints rotated
> - Zebra Drivers, CR 2008 SP4: 'square' tag prints small, 'rectangular' tag prints GOOD
>
> I'm also going to try SP5 runtimes, and might consider running the seagull drivers too if I can use them to get a better handle on deployment and maintenance of the drivers...
>
> I too went around and 'squared' all my label definitions when going to 9.05, but we've got some internal tags that keep track of issuing, and sometimes those print multiple tags, and i'm loosing data between the first and second tag (because of the square shape), if that makes sense.
>
> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "pbparker" <scrumbus@> wrote:
> >
> > I tried the Seagull drivers and had no success, and I've tried SP4 and SP5 and found it made no difference either unfortunately.
> >
> > I've also run into the same issues you mentioned below of having the postage sized labels.
> >
> > Seems like of all the things to battle with this software, this shouldn't be one of them.
> >
> > --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Lisser, Jennifer" <Jennifer.Lisser@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm using the Seagull Scientific drivers. I've tried disassociating the paper size, rotating the label, patching the developer's CR2008, tricking the paper size. The only time I got the label to print in the right direction was setting paper size to 8-1/2x11, but then the print driver shrunk my text to postage-stamp size.
> > >
> > > What I haven't tried yet is going to CR2008 SP4 on the viewer. The tech wasn't specific about what is buggy in SP5 but I trust this guy. If I can get this to work with SP4 I'll call it a done deal. I won't get to testing this until next week though. If someone comes up with a fix in the meantime I'd be grateful if they would share!
> > >
> > > Jenn
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> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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You shouldn't lose data printing multiple tags if you setup the crystal report cleaning. You can use a blank page footer that eats up the blank space at the bottom.

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "pbparker" <scrumbus@...> wrote:
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> No I don't, in fact I wasn't aware of the whole wider than tall bug, so mine are still defined as 4 x 2. I've not tried the whole trick of making them square, but I'm still not sure if that's going to fix the dimension problem I have where the drivers think the media in the labeler is something incorrect as well.
>
> I guess it's worth a try to make it square and see if that's resolved.
>
> Yes, we print multiple tags as well, so if I had square ones I could see losing the data between first and second prints, which would then bring me back to square one of having the issues again.
>
> I guess the real problem is the 4 wide by 2 high apparently.
>
> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "cubcrafters_it" <jason.navarrete@> wrote:
> >
> > Do you still have your CR .rpt files defining a 'square' label for your wider-than-tall label when trying the other runtime versions? I'm slowly working through the process of trying different combinations and finding that:
> >
> > - Zebra Drivers, CR 2008 SP3: 'square' tag prints small, 'rectangular' tag prints rotated
> > - Zebra Drivers, CR 2008 SP4: 'square' tag prints small, 'rectangular' tag prints GOOD
> >
> > I'm also going to try SP5 runtimes, and might consider running the seagull drivers too if I can use them to get a better handle on deployment and maintenance of the drivers...
> >
> > I too went around and 'squared' all my label definitions when going to 9.05, but we've got some internal tags that keep track of issuing, and sometimes those print multiple tags, and i'm loosing data between the first and second tag (because of the square shape), if that makes sense.
> >
> > --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "pbparker" <scrumbus@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I tried the Seagull drivers and had no success, and I've tried SP4 and SP5 and found it made no difference either unfortunately.
> > >
> > > I've also run into the same issues you mentioned below of having the postage sized labels.
> > >
> > > Seems like of all the things to battle with this software, this shouldn't be one of them.
> > >
> > > --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Lisser, Jennifer" <Jennifer.Lisser@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm using the Seagull Scientific drivers. I've tried disassociating the paper size, rotating the label, patching the developer's CR2008, tricking the paper size. The only time I got the label to print in the right direction was setting paper size to 8-1/2x11, but then the print driver shrunk my text to postage-stamp size.
> > > >
> > > > What I haven't tried yet is going to CR2008 SP4 on the viewer. The tech wasn't specific about what is buggy in SP5 but I trust this guy. If I can get this to work with SP4 I'll call it a done deal. I won't get to testing this until next week though. If someone comes up with a fix in the meantime I'd be grateful if they would share!
> > > >
> > > > Jenn
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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> > >
> >
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