Installation guide

14 -- Using the Zebra Printer with MSP
Examples:
The first example will download a firmware image to a supported printer. The name of the file
could be FWDownload.manifest. The contents if the file could be:
SHSTG10z.hex
The second example will configure a supported printer. It could be named
configure.manifest and will list only:
PrinterSettings.settings
The third example will download a Printer command which includes a font file. For this example
the font file will have a “.fnt” file extension and the file will be named
print.command.manifest. The files must be listed in this order:
Carrier.fnt
Hello.cmd
Settings File
The next extension is a “.settings” extension. A .settings file will contain settings that are to be set
on a Zebra printer. You can set the same variables as found in the SGD (setvar/getvar/do) Zebra
commands, but you must use MSP format to set the variables. MSP allows you to
use "setvar" and "do" Zebra commands but in a slightly different format.
The format in the MSP .settings file for "setvar" commands is:
set: [settings command name] = [settings command value]
And the syntax for the corresponding Zebra CPCL setvar command is:
! U1 setvar “command name” “command value”
The format in the MSP .settings file for "do" commands is:
do: [do command name] = [do command value]
And the syntax for the corresponding Zebra CPCL do command is:
! U1 do “command name” “command value”
Note:
The Zebra Proxy Plug-in will not issue any more do or set commands once a
"do:device.reset=" command is detected in a settings file. In addition, the Zebra
Proxy Plug-in and Windows PC Client will return success to the MSP server once it
successfully sends the "do:device.reset=" command to a Zebra printer.
Zebra documentation can be used to obtain the names of these settings variables, the meaning
of each command, and the supported values for each command. The documentation for the
Zebra setrvar and do commands can be found in the CPCL Programming Manual. This is
available at www.zebra.com.
1. At the web site, click Resource Library.
2. Click Manuals.