zebra-zpl

This library will help you to quickly generate ZPL code for your Zebra printer.

Library support only most commons ZPL commons (Text, Code bar 39)

For the moment, library was tested on Zebra 300 dpi with native font zebra-0. I

But you can insert natif zpl at all times.

You can also fork this project and share code if you make this library better.

Hello World

Add dependy in your pom

  <dependency>
      <groupId>fr.w3blog</groupId>
      <artifactId>zebra-zpl</artifactId>
      <version>0.0.1</version>
      <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>

First code

	ZebraLabel zebraLabel = new ZebraLabel(912, 912);
	zebraLabel.setDefaultZebraFont(ZebraFont.ZEBRA_ZERO);

	zebraLabel.addElement(new ZebraText(10, 84, "Product:", 14));
	zebraLabel.addElement(new ZebraText(395, 85, "Camera", 14));

	zebraLabel.addElement(new ZebraText(10, 161, "CA201212AA", 14));

	//Add Code Bar 39
	zebraLabel.addElement(new ZebraBarCode39(10, 297, "CA201212AA", 118, 2, 2));

	zebraLabel.addElement(new ZebraText(10, 365, "Qté:", 11));
	zebraLabel.addElement(new ZebraText(180, 365, "3", 11));
	zebraLabel.addElement(new ZebraText(317, 365, "QA", 11));

	zebraLabel.addElement(new ZebraText(10, 520, "Ref log:", 11));
	zebraLabel.addElement(new ZebraText(180, 520, "0035", 11));
	zebraLabel.addElement(new ZebraText(10, 596, "Ref client:", 11));
	zebraLabel.addElement(new ZebraText(180, 599, "1234", 11));

Get Zpl Code

zebraLabel.getZplCode();

Print

ZebraUtils.printZpl(zebraLabel, ip, port);

Native code

If you need to customise your label

zebraLabel.addElement(new ZebraNativeZpl("^KD0\n"));

You can also use usefull fonction ZplUtils.zplCommand to generate a zpl command (with many variables)

ZplUtils.zplCommand("A", "0", "R"); //will return ^A,0,R

Default Settings

To avoid repetitive setting for each ZebraElement, you can change global configuration in ZebraDefaultSettings.

ZebraDefaultSettings.DEFAULT_ZEBRA_FIELD_POSITION = ZebraFieldPosition.FIELD_ORIGIN;

This code should be executed on startup or on the first usage, and it's valid for all the lifecycle of your application and all threads (static property).

If you want different property, you have to define it on each ZebraElement

Release new version

Mainly follow instruction there https://central.sonatype.org/publish/publish-maven/

For the final deploy step, please use profile release-sign-artifacts

mvn clean deploy -P release-sign-artifacts

Then connect to close and release version https://oss.sonatype.org/

If no password, or forgot it, please go there. https://issues.sonatype.org/

Other documentation

Documentation about ZPL could be find here http://www.tracerplus.com/kb/Manuals/ZPL_Vol1.pdf

http://www.tracerplus.com/kb/Manuals/ZPL_Vol2.pdf