Hi there

I'm having some problems printing a PDF file to a Zebra label printer.

I print from the command line with the following command

Neither the fitplot (which should scale down the input), nor the landscape option have any effect. I suspect the page the printer interprets is an A4 sized page, since it spits out 2 labels which would be the equivalent of the short side of an A4.

If I do this
The scaling seems to kick in, since the printer spits out only one label, but unfortunately it's not rotated properly.

And properly rotating a PS file appears to be quite a bitch.


I used to have this problem with my Laserjet printer some years ago, but by now the Laserjet works perfectly.

what options do I have? I would very much like to have it print from the shell since I'm planning on using this in a shell script.

I can print in landscape mode using Adobes Acrobat Reader, but not using xpdf (which I would prefer) or other PDF viewers.

Any ideas?

Paper size is a parameter but I haven't even selected with the command line. The default paper size is A4 if you don't change it. Have you tried adding the printer with the GUI? Setting paper size is a parameter there.

The papersize is set in the printer options (I've added the printer via the cups web interface)

The label is the "w162h288/Label".

I've tried several combinations of the media option when printing, using only "w162h288" or only "Label" as papersize, yet there is no change whatsoever. Printing the PDF directly yields an A4 page, printing the Postscript file always yields the label printed without the proper rotation, no matter the options.

I don't use command line to print but I believe there is more than one place to set paper size and both must be set.