HP (Hewlett-Packard) SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print Bedienungsanleitung

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Richtige Gebrauchsanleitung

Die Vorschriften verpflichten den Verkäufer zur Übertragung der Gebrauchsanleitung HP (Hewlett-Packard) SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print an den Erwerber, zusammen mit der Ware. Eine fehlende Anleitung oder falsche Informationen, die dem Verbraucher übertragen werden, bilden eine Grundlage für eine Reklamation aufgrund Unstimmigkeit des Geräts mit dem Vertrag. Rechtsmäßig lässt man das Anfügen einer Gebrauchsanleitung in anderer Form als Papierform zu, was letztens sehr oft genutzt wird, indem man eine grafische oder elektronische Anleitung von HP (Hewlett-Packard) SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print, sowie Anleitungsvideos für Nutzer beifügt. Die Bedingung ist, dass ihre Form leserlich und verständlich ist.

Was ist eine Gebrauchsanleitung?

Das Wort kommt vom lateinischen „instructio”, d.h. ordnen. Demnach kann man in der Anleitung HP (Hewlett-Packard) SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print die Beschreibung der Etappen der Vorgehensweisen finden. Das Ziel der Anleitung ist die Belehrung, Vereinfachung des Starts, der Nutzung des Geräts oder auch der Ausführung bestimmter Tätigkeiten. Die Anleitung ist eine Sammlung von Informationen über ein Gegenstand/eine Dienstleistung, ein Hinweis.

Leider widmen nicht viele Nutzer ihre Zeit der Gebrauchsanleitung HP (Hewlett-Packard) SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print. Eine gute Gebrauchsanleitung erlaubt nicht nur eine Reihe zusätzlicher Funktionen des gekauften Geräts kennenzulernen, sondern hilft dabei viele Fehler zu vermeiden.

Was sollte also eine ideale Gebrauchsanleitung beinhalten?

Die Gebrauchsanleitung HP (Hewlett-Packard) SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print sollte vor allem folgendes enthalten:
- Informationen über technische Daten des Geräts HP (Hewlett-Packard) SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print
- Den Namen des Produzenten und das Produktionsjahr des Geräts HP (Hewlett-Packard) SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print
- Grundsätze der Bedienung, Regulierung und Wartung des Geräts HP (Hewlett-Packard) SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print
- Sicherheitszeichen und Zertifikate, die die Übereinstimmung mit entsprechenden Normen bestätigen

Warum lesen wir keine Gebrauchsanleitungen?

Der Grund dafür ist die fehlende Zeit und die Sicherheit, was die bestimmten Funktionen der gekauften Geräte angeht. Leider ist das Anschließen und Starten von HP (Hewlett-Packard) SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print zu wenig. Eine Anleitung beinhaltet eine Reihe von Hinweisen bezüglich bestimmter Funktionen, Sicherheitsgrundsätze, Wartungsarten (sogar das, welche Mittel man benutzen sollte), eventueller Fehler von HP (Hewlett-Packard) SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print und Lösungsarten für Probleme, die während der Nutzung auftreten könnten. Immerhin kann man in der Gebrauchsanleitung die Kontaktnummer zum Service HP (Hewlett-Packard) finden, wenn die vorgeschlagenen Lösungen nicht wirksam sind. Aktuell erfreuen sich Anleitungen in Form von interessanten Animationen oder Videoanleitungen an Popularität, die den Nutzer besser ansprechen als eine Broschüre. Diese Art von Anleitung gibt garantiert, dass der Nutzer sich das ganze Video anschaut, ohne die spezifizierten und komplizierten technischen Beschreibungen von HP (Hewlett-Packard) SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print zu überspringen, wie es bei der Papierform passiert.

Warum sollte man Gebrauchsanleitungen lesen?

In der Gebrauchsanleitung finden wir vor allem die Antwort über den Bau sowie die Möglichkeiten des Geräts HP (Hewlett-Packard) SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print, über die Nutzung bestimmter Accessoires und eine Reihe von Informationen, die erlauben, jegliche Funktionen und Bequemlichkeiten zu nutzen.

Nach dem gelungenen Kauf des Geräts, sollte man einige Zeit für das Kennenlernen jedes Teils der Anleitung von HP (Hewlett-Packard) SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print widmen. Aktuell sind sie genau vorbereitet oder übersetzt, damit sie nicht nur verständlich für die Nutzer sind, aber auch ihre grundliegende Hilfs-Informations-Funktion erfüllen.

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    Bar Code Label Design and Printing from mySAP™ Business Suit via SAP ® Smart Forms™ Zeb ra ® Printers and SAP Smart Forms June 30, 2 005 Rev 3 ©2004 ZIH C orp. ZTools is a Zebra tradem ark, and Zebra, ZPL II, BAR-ONE and ZebraNet are regi stered trademarks of ZIH Corp. All rights reserved. SAP, mySAP, Smart Forms an d SAP NetWeaver are the t[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 2 Table of Cont ents UPGRADING SMART FORMS FOR BAR CODING ............................................................................. 2 S UPPORT P AC KS .......................................................................................................................................... 2 Sm[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 2 Upgrading Sma rt Forms for Bar Coding Support Packs SAP’s Smart Forms design tool now supports native bar code design and industrial bar code printing. These featur es can be enjo y ed by users of m y SAP™ Business Suite 4.6c onwards. Support Packs ar e available direct from SAP AG for enabl[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 3 Smart Forms and Zebra Dev ice T y pes One of the followin g device t y pes must be uploaded to mySAP Business Suite before you can drive Zebra printers from Smart For ms. These device types will also ship with SAP NetWeaver 05. Smart Fo rms only supports the Zebra Programming Language (ZPL II). [...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 4 Installation of mySAP Business Su ite Z eb ra Dev ice Ty pes The next series of steps outline the impor t procedure of the device t y pe definition file, i.e., ZLBZEB2.PRI to the my SAP Business Suite printing system. First, e xecute the Program Execution transaction SA38 by keying in /nSA38 at [...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 5 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. When all the required fi elds above are entered co rrectl y , click on execute b utton or press <F8> to start the import process. Ignore all other options .[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 6 Allocate a Develop m ent Class The user must eith er allocate a d evelopment class to the device t ype or make it a lo cal object. The development class is only required if the customer wishes to tra nsport this device t y pe to other m y SAP Business Suite systems. Local object device ty pes ca[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 7 Select the lo cal driver. The pop-up dialog text box labeled “ Import from a Loc al File ” prompts for the device type definition file and its location. Use the browse button to locate the file, e.g., ZLB_ZEB.PRI and then click the OK button to start the upload process. © SAP A G 2004. A ll[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 8 Using the Smart F orms Zebra De vice Typ es w ith Output de vices / Print Queues Before w e can use a print er (device t ype) in SAP m y SAP Business S uite we must creat e and configure a print queue (output device ). Initiate the Spool Administration program, SPAD, by enterin g /nSPAD in the t[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 9 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights res erved. You should now see the screen b elow, exactl y the same as the previous scr een but with a new line of icons. Press the Create icon. © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. At the “ Spool Administration: Create Output Device”, similar to the scre en bel[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 10 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. Press the TAB. © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved.[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 11 For testing and demonstration purposes only, we recommend that you use “Front End Printing.” We do not recommend this access method for volume or mission-critical industrial printing. This means that you should complete the configuration of the output device by doing the following: 1) Ensur[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 12 U or S PC with Windows ® 95/98/NT4/2000 (requires SAPlpd running) Destination Host (L ike the name of the target PC / print ser ver) This is not required for F -Front End Printing as the destination host is the client PC that the print request was made from (r equires SAPlpd running). For U or[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 13 © SAP AG 2004. A ll rights res erved. SAPlpd needs to be run on any PC that requires a Windows printer driver to be used with mySAP Bu siness Suite. This is the case if you are using Ge neric Text drivers or full- blown Windows drivers. Note: We do not recommend using SAPlpd for volume or miss[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 14 Test Printing from Smart Forms to an Output Device / Print Queue Please ensure that the for m you test print with has been designed for your device. Do not try and p rint a form that has been designed with “HELVE” on an ANDALE Unicode Device type (zlzeb uX). Please follow the following proc[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 15 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights res erved. Press the Test I con again (or press F8). You will now see a screen simila r to that below: © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. Press the execute Icon (or press F8). You will now see a screen similar to that below:[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 16 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. You must enter/edit the following fields: Output devic e Enter the name of the pri nt queue. Print immed iately Ensure this is chec ked/ticked. Delete afte r print Ensure this is chec ked/ticked. New Spool re quest Ensure this is chec ked/ticked. Press the[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 17 Designing a S imple Smart Form Disable PC Edito r Before starting to design your form, we advise that you use the old editor for full scre en editor opera tions within Smart Forms. This ca n be achieved as follows: Start the “Sta ndard Text: Request” tr ansaction by ente ring /nSO10 in the [...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 18 Smart Styles—Pla nning for Smart Forms Before starting to lay out y our form, you must determine what text and bar code objects y ou will require. You actually need to build a c ollection of all of the derivatives of text and bar codes you will use within the Smart Form. All of these objects [...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 19 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Enter in the bar code name “C39_20” and the Sh ort text of “C39 20mm high 0.25 narrow bar” an d press OK © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Select C39 as the Symbology and press OK © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Select Norma[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 20 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Enter 6 (entered at 600 dpi/24 dpm but we will print at 200 dpi(¼ of 24=6)) • Enter 480 (entered at 600 dpi/24 dpm but we will print at 200 - 24*20=480) • Leave the che ck digit enabled • Leave the rati on at 3:1 • Press OK © SAP A G 2004. A [...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 21 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Press OK You have now successful ly created the “New Te chnology” based bar code. Repeat this for all bar codes that you will need. (No ne ed to do any more for this exercise.)[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 22 Creating Smart Styles to Select Text and Barco des Please follow t he following pro cedure: • Execute Transact ion /nSmartSt y les • Enter a the St yle Name “ ZZEBRA_SHIPP ING” and press the “Cr eate” button We are now going to add a bar code to our Smart Style: • Select “Char a[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 23 We now need to add our Text Styles to the Smart Style: • Select “Char acter Form ats”, from the tree, and pr ess the right mouse button and then select “Create Nod e”. © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Enter “TS” (Tex t Small ) as the Character format and press OK © SAP [...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 24 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Select “HELVE” as the Font famil y (CG triumvirate bold condensed for ZLZEBx) • Select 12 point as the point size • Repeat the a bove for 24 Point and call it “TB ” (Text Big)[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 25 We now need to make a default Paragraph for our Header Data: © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Select “Paragraph Format s”, from the tree, and press the right mouse button and then select “Create Nod e” © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Enter “LJ” (Left Justifica t[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 26 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • We can use all of the defaults—no need to chan ge any other settings for the Paragraph Format. Y ou now need to double click on “Header data” © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Select “ L J” fo r the Standard P aragraph[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 27 We now need to save our Smart Style: • Press the “Save ” Icon © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Press “Local object” • You now need to Select “Style | Activate” from the main menu. You have now successful ly created and activated your Smart Sty les.[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 28 Laying out the Sm art Form Start th e “Smart Forms” t ransaction b y enterin g /n SMART F ORMS in the command line text box located just below the menu bar of the cu rrent active window of mySAP Business Suite system. Press the <Ente r> ke y or click on the check box adj acent to the [...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 29 Map to Sm art Style You should now see a screen similar to that below : © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • We now need to map our Smart St y le to this Form. Double click on Form attributes. © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Press the “Output Options” TAB • Enter “ZZEBR[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 30 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Click on the Main Window • Press the Output Opt ions TAB (if not alread y activ e) • Change the Left margin and Upper margin to 0 (Zero) • Change the Width and Height to that of the Label Size (It is actually safer, to avoid SAP automatically mov[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 31 Add Text and Bar Code F ields © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Press the right mouse button on “MAIN Main Window” tree • Select “Create | Window”. W e are basicall y going to create a separate Win dow for each field, in the Main W indow (think of the Main Window as the Label[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 32 • Press the right mouse button on “%Windows1 New W indow” tree • Select “C reate | Text ”. • Press the “Gen eral Attrib utes” TAB (if ne eded) © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Enter “Date: “ • Press the “insert fi eld icon” © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights rese[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 33 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Select highlight “Date: &SYST-DATUM& by dragging over it. You could make this a multi-line fie ld (parag raph). • Pick Character Format “ TS HELVE 12 PT”. You can pick any tex t or bar code style that you have crea ted. Bar codes will j[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 34 Add Lines and Boxe s You should now see a screen similar to that below : © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Press the right mouse button on “MAIN Main Window” tree • Select “Create | Window • Press the “Output options” TAB[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 35 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights res erved. • Enable/check the “Line width” checkbox • Enter Point size of line width (or change units of measurement) • Enable “Alwa y s draw box and shading” • Enter 100 for “Gra y Value” if you want a solid box (leave as blank or 0 fo r lines o[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 36 Add Logos/Graphics You should now see a screen similar to that below : © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Press the right mouse button on “MAIN Main Window” tree • Select “Create | Window • You may want to move / position the Window • Press the right mouse button on the Wind[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 37 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights res erved. • Press the “brows e graphic” icon © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights res erved. • Press the “ex ecute” icon (or press F8)[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 38 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights res erved. • Double click on the logo you require (we will use ENJOY) For detailed information on logos, refer to “Tips and Tricks: Logos / Graphics” on page 47.[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 39 Saving and Activating the Smart Form • Press the Save Icon © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. • Press “local object ” (if prompt ed) • Select “Fo rm |Activate ” from the Main Menu[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 40 Tips an d T ricks for Smart Forms and Zebra Printers Smart Forms was originally developed for “Form ” and “Report” design, not labels. Smart Forms can now be succes sfully used to design labels on high performance b ar code label printers, but you need to be aware of th e tips and trick[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 41 Note: The command ^FW R in the command node has no effect on printing barcodes, as these have their own par ameters for rotation. Define the bar codes needed for the landscape label in SE73 with the necessar y rotation. Field Positioning—X , Y Coordinates Labels normally use a “fi eld” co[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 42 Text Objects Smart Forms supports Zebra preloaded printer-r esident scaleable fonts. It also supports TrueType font download ing and TrueType fonts stored in Zebra printer Fla sh memory. We strong l y recommend that you use printe r-resident fonts for simplic ity and maximum printer throughput.[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 43 © SAP A G 2004. A ll rights reserved. For detaile d inform ation on how to up load a TrueType font, refer to OSS No te 130 658 In the case o f ZPL II printers, t his font is autom atically downloaded to t he printe r at th e beginning of the prin t run as an IBM Codepag e 850 sca leable fo nt,[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 44 Modify the Z ebra SAP Device Type Select Transaction SE73 (Printer Fonts) and press “Change” Scroll down and Double click on the target device type (This must be one of the IBM Codepage 850 device t ypes Zlzebx (x=2, 3 or 6) Double click on the TrueT y pe font (for example ZArial) Enter the[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 45 Logos/Graphics Colored bitmap g raphics from Smart For ms are changed to black and white when you print from the Z ebra printer driver . If the picture quality de teriorates following this conversion, you should convert the graphic to blac k and white using a graphics program (such as PaintShop[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 46 Printer Setting s Command Nodes allow you to set pr inter specific setting s from within individual Smart Forms. Each Sma rt Form may have different settings associate d with it. This means that you can have a Smart Form set the printer’s darkn ess (burn temperature) and print speed (as well [...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 47 Below is a list of supported command Nodes: Description Comma nd Nod e Supporte d Values Human R eadable S_L ZPL_HR System Bar Code Style Nam e S_LZPL_HR1 S _ L Z P L _ H R 2 S_ LZPL_HR2 Print Speed (^P R) S_LZPL_S ETUP_SPD Supports 2,3,4,5,6, 8,9,10,1 1,12 Media Tracking (^MN) S_LZPL_S ETUP_MT[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 48 Bar Codes Bar Codes are managed via transaction /nSE73. See the screen b elow: © SAP A G 2004. All righ ts reserved. Individual bar cod e “types” need to be created for each flavor of bar cod e. A Smart S ty l e then needs to be created t o include bar code “t y pes” for e ach Node. Fi[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 49 © SAP A G 2004. All righ ts reserved. System Bar Codes “System bar codes” can either use the “old barcode technolo gy “and use a specific “printer bar code” bas ed on the device t y pe select ed, or alternativel y use the “new bar code technolog y .” We recommend that y ou use [...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 50 © SAP A G 2004. All righ ts reserved. Note: Bar code param eters “Height” and “Module W idth” are entered at a resolution of 600 dpi independent of the resolution of the target printer. Th is means that a bar code hei ght of 120 would print 10 mm on a 203-, 300- or 600-dpi printer. For[...]

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    Driving Zebra Printers from Smart Forms 13760L Page 51 Resourc es Visit www.zebra.com/sap to keep up-to-dat e on bar code printing and RFID solutions for SAP End Users. Additional Smart Forms information can be found b y visiting the SAP Developer Network website at www.sdn.sap.com . Refe r to SAPnet notes 750002 and 750772.[...]