Zebra Printing with CUPS no print ZPL or EPL

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Andrew Lynch picture Andrew Lynch · Jul 16, 2012 · Viewed 34k times · Source

I have a Zebra GK420d connect to OS X via CUPS. However, when I send files to it that are written in ZPL or EPL they are only printed in plain text.

Am I required to change to mode on the printer?

Answer

sanmai picture sanmai · Apr 10, 2013

Contrary to what others said, you don't need to specially add a raw queue.

Instead, you can submit raw files into any queue using -o raw switch:

lpr -P CupsPrinterName -o raw path/to/label.zpl

Printer name can be found over that link in CUPS:

http://localhost:631/printers/

This also works on other platforms that use CUPS, like Linux.

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