PHP barcode generator code print in ZEBRA printer

PHP
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Hi,

I just created a barcode image generator where I found out in internet, when I test it and I print it in a ordinary printer it was okay. Same size, what the barcode display on my web page is the same size of what I got printed, but when I tried to print it on Zebra Barcode Printer its become small and only half was printed.

this is my code:


<?php

$bc = new barCode();
$bc->build($_GET['id']);

$q = new MySQL();
$q->Fetch(wms_receiving);
class barCode
{
    public $bcHeight, $bcThinWidth, $bcThickWidth, $bcFontSize, $mode;

   // function __construct($mode='gif', $height=25, $thin=1, $thick=3, $fSize=2)
   function __construct($mode='gif', $height=75, $thin=1, $thick=4, $fSize=3)
    {
        $this->bcHeight = $height;
        $this->bcThinWidth = $thin;
        $this->bcThickWidth = $this->bcThinWidth * $thick;
        $this->fontSize = $fSize;
        $this->mode = $mode;
        $this->outMode = array('gif'=>'gif', 'png'=>'png', 'jpeg'=>'jpeg', 'wbmp'=>'vnd.wap.wbmp');
        $this->codeMap = array(
            '0'=>'010000101',    '1'=>'100100001',    '2'=>'001100001',    '3'=>'101100000',
            '4'=>'000110001',    '5'=>'100110000',    '6'=>'001110000',    '7'=>'000100101',
            '8'=>'100100100',    '9'=>'001100100',    'A'=>'100001001',    'B'=>'001001001',
            'C'=>'101001000',    'D'=>'000011001',    'E'=>'100011000',    'F'=>'001011000',
            'G'=>'000001101',    'H'=>'100001100',    'I'=>'001001100',    'J'=>'000011100',
            'K'=>'100000011',    'L'=>'001000011',    'M'=>'101000010',    'N'=>'000010011',
            'O'=>'100010010',    'P'=>'001010010',    'Q'=>'000000111',    'R'=>'100000110',
            'S'=>'001000110',    'T'=>'000010110',    'U'=>'110000001',    'V'=>'011000001',
            'W'=>'111000000',    'X'=>'010010001',    'Y'=>'110010000',    'Z'=>'011010000',
            ' '=>'011000100',    '$'=>'010101000',    '%'=>'000101010',    '*'=>'010010100',
            '+'=>'010001010',    '-'=>'000110100',    '.'=>'110000100',    '/'=>'010100010'
            );
    }



    public function build($text='', $showText=false, $fileName=null)
    {
        if (trim($text) <= ' ')
            throw new exception('barCode::build - must be passed text to operate');
        if (!$fileType = $this->outMode[$this->mode])
            throw new exception("barCode::build - unrecognized output format ({$this->mode})");
        if (!function_exists("image{$this->mode}"))
            throw new exception("barCode::build - unsupported output format ({$this->mode} - check phpinfo)");

        $text  =  strtoupper($text);
        $dispText = "* $text *";
        $text = "*$text*"; // adds start and stop chars
        $textLen  =  strlen($text);
        $barcodeWidth  =  $textLen * (7 * $this->bcThinWidth + 3 * $this->bcThickWidth) - $this->bcThinWidth;
        $im = imagecreate($barcodeWidth, $this->bcHeight);
        $black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
        $white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
        imagefill($im, 0, 0, $white);

        $xpos = 0;
        for ($idx=0; $idx<$textLen; $idx++)
        {
            if (!$char = $text[$idx]) $char = '-';
            for ($ptr=0; $ptr<=8; $ptr++)
            {
                $elementWidth = ($this->codeMap[$char][$ptr]) ? $this->bcThickWidth : $this->bcThinWidth;
                if (($ptr + 1) % 2)
                    imagefilledrectangle($im, $xpos, 0, $xpos + $elementWidth-1, $this->bcHeight, $black);
                $xpos += $elementWidth;
            }
            $xpos += $this->bcThinWidth;
        }

        if ($showText)
        {
            $pxWid = imagefontwidth($this->fontSize) * strlen($dispText) + 10;
            $pxHt = imagefontheight($this->fontSize) + 2;
            $bigCenter = $barcodeWidth / 2;
            $textCenter = $pxWid / 2;
            imagefilledrectangle($im, $bigCenter - $textCenter, $this->bcHeight - $pxHt, $bigCenter + $textCenter, $this->bcHeight, $white);
            imagestring($im, $this->fontSize, ($bigCenter - $textCenter) + 5, ($this->bcHeight - $pxHt) + 1, $dispText, $black);
        }

        if (!$fileName) header("Content-type:  image/{$fileType}");
        switch($this->mode)
        {
            case 'gif': imagegif($im, $fileName);
            case 'png': imagepng($im, $fileName);
            case 'jpeg': imagejpeg($im, $fileName);
            case 'wbmp': imagewbmp($im, $fileName);
        }

        imagedestroy($im);
    }
}

?>

I don’t have any idea how can I print my barcode image in Zebra. Is this any configuration?

Thank you

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The problem may not be with your script at all but probably with the way your system communicates with the printer. We have a Zebra thermal printer for printing UPS labels and printing GIF images doesn’t produce good results. It’s as if the standard driver for printing bitmap graphics is only provided as a last resort so that is works somehow. You may try tinkering with your driver settings. The best quality comes when we print labels provided in EPL format with the use of a special driver. I don’t know if that is the problem in your case but I suppose if you had a php script that generated barcodes in EPL then they would print best. Of course, if you wanted to print EPL barcodes from a browser you might need a special plugin or java applet that would allow you to do that.