[cups] CUPS ZPL Driver: Media Size

Frank Kirschner fk at celebrate.de
Wed Apr 27 12:34:51 PDT 2016


The printer has 203.2 dpi printing resolution. Sometimes the blank space is longer or shorter. I hav contacted the printer manufacturer.

Am 27. April 2016 21:30:59 MESZ, schrieb Helge Blischke <helgeblischke at web.de>:
>
>> Am 27.04.2016 um 18:34 schrieb Frank Kirschner <fk at celebrate.de>:
>> 
>> Okay, 2nd try. Attachment: ZPL capture.txt
>> 
>> Thanks and best regards
>> Frank
>> 
>
>The command
>^LL1184
>(the second command after the downloaded graphic) sets the label length
>to 1184 dots, which is 148 mm if the resolution is 203.2 dots per inch
>(which is, AFAIK, the default for most label printers. This is only 0.5
>mm
>shorter as the length of an A6 sheet.
>
>So, if the printer is configured correctly, it should emit A6 length
>labels.
>You menttioned in a recent post that the labels are 274 mm long, which
>indicates that the printer’s resolution is 4 dots per mm instead of the
>default 8.
>
>You need to edit either the PPD or the dry file to add the new
>resolution
>(101 dpi in this case) and re-generate the PPD.
>
>Helge
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