Quote Originally Posted by Ken Puls
Hi PhilC

I'm curious... what are you doing with the Zebra printer that led you to VBAX? I've got a couple of Zebra LP2824's in my office, but I've never bothered trying to automate anything to do with them... yet...
Hey Ken,

Well I have a Zebra TPL 2844-Z printer that is currently used to produce location bar-code labels. The program that was being used to generate those labels is no longer accessible ad my team asked if I could write something to generate those labels. It sounded like a piece of cake, I mean how hard could it be to write a program that puts 3 lines on a label.

Well the program to generate the labels is a piece of cake, it's the goofy interface with the printer. I can't use the LPT or Com ports and must use the USB port, this is what spurred my search for answers. I didn't see anything specifically on this site but the name caught my attention. I knew I had to join this site if for no other reason than to enhance my VBA toolbox.

But, if someone has worked with the USB ports or even how to get the printer to do what it's supposed to do then more is the better. I'm figuring out work a rounds but haven't got it totally successful yet. I'd like to be able to make the program non-platform dependent. so that anyone with Excel 2007 installed and the universal driver for the printer can run the label program, thus eliminating the dependence on the original bar-code program.