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Print UPS Shipping label as gif on label printer

  • 1.  Print UPS Shipping label as gif on label printer

    Posted Tue February 27, 2024 12:41 PM

    Good afternoon,
    we are planning to implement UPS shipping via UPS web API call on our Power10 (V7R4). We already get the JSON with the UPS shipping label as a gif back with the JSON response, decode it from base64 and store it in the IFS. Print it on a laser printer using keyword AFPRSC. Works.
    Problem is we need it on a label printer instead, a Zebra or SATO. Testing with a SATO CL4NXPlus 203 dpi attached via LAN. In order for the printer to "understand" us we would need to send the print data in printing language SBPL. Has anybody done this? Or has an idea how to achieve the goal, print the UPS label directly from the Power10 to a label printer ? Thanks! Peter



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    Peter Langhammer
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  • 2.  RE: Print UPS Shipping label as gif on label printer

    Posted Tue February 27, 2024 01:38 PM

    Case closed. In the call to the web API there is an option for the return format of the label, default is gif, but EPL and ZPL are available. That should work !



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    Peter Langhammer
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