I have a problem with a printer, a Zebra S4M label printer.
The thing about this printer is that it can print labels from all windows applications, and this is the reason why I bought this printer. But it doesn?? print from my C# program, it?? like it doesn?? recognise the data being sent to it. I thought, that if it could print from any windows application it would be easy to do a printDocument.Print().
All the printer does is queue the print, just to delete it instantly.

Does anybody know what the source of this problem could be, and how to solve it?

I also am having this problem. I have a ticket logged with Zebra so they can look into their drivers, but I dont know if it will do much good. The tech support had me change the printers port to output to a text file, the she had me print from word (which works) and print from my application (C# Framework2.0) and send her the files along with the config from the printer. The files did have their differances, so we will see if they ever figure it out... until then I have tried using the RawPrinterHelper class and that didnt work. This printer IS able to do B/W graphics, as it will even do a windows test page with the windows logo.

I have been working with Zebra on this same issue for the last two weeks. We have a 110XiIIIPlus printer that will not print from .NET C# when I use the printdialog and printdocument controls.

I was able to get the labels to print using the rawprinterhelper code supplied through their technical solutions site (solution 13948 C# programming example) ... but am printing labels with datamatrix on them and this method does not allow me to meet the government's standards on size and quality.

I would greatly appreciate having any solution posted to this thread. I will post what I finally come across.

Thank you for your reply's

I found a solution and it was in the driver I was using.

With the printer followed a CD, on the CD there was a setup to install the printer and its drivers. Naturally I used this driver, but it didn't work.

I installed the program named 'ZebraDesigner', and added a printer. This adds a new instance of your Zebra printer, so if I set this new printer to be my default printer it works well with .NET's printDocument.Print().

I would like to hear your comment on this and if the same thing worked for you..

This did indeed work for me.

Thanks a million. It saved me many hours of writing intricate zpl instructions to work with our label functionality.

Thanks for the solution.

I had the same problem using Zebra S600 and VB .net. After many frustrating hours - using 'ZebraDesigner's driver solved the problem.

Did you let zebra tech support know about your solution? (they dont have anything about it on their site)

Solution to Zebra Driver problem.

There is a known issue in Zebra Universal Driver (v5.4.6.16) with .NET. The problem has been resolved in the newer driver (v5.5.7.17).

The newer driver is not on the Zebra Driver Download site yet, but is available by contacting tech.support.