Ribbon Cartridge Programming Commands

The Ribbon Cartridge printer available with this Zebra printer series offers several Set-Get-Do (SGD) programming commands to support the use of the ribbon cartridge.

See the ZPL Programmer’s Guide for more details on SGD commands and, in particular, SGD ribbon cartridge commands. The guide can be downloaded from zebra.com/manuals.

The following are examples of SGD ribbon cartridge commands.

! U1 getvar "device.feature.ribbon_cartridge"
! U1 getvar "ribbon.cartridge.part_number"
! U1 getvar "ribbon.cartridge.authenticated"
! U1 getvar "ribbon.cartridge.length_remaining"
! U1 getvar "ribbon.cartridge.serial_number"
! U1 getvar "ribbon.cartridge.width"
! U1 getvar "ribbon.cartridge.type"
! U1 getvar "ribbon.cartridge.length"
! U1 getvar "ribbon.cartridge.inserted"

ribbon.ribbon_low.warning : 50 , Choices: off,5,10,15,25,50,75,100
! U1 getvar "ribbon"
! U1 getvar "ribbon.ribbon_low.warning"
! U1 setvar "ribbon.ribbon_low.warning" "75"
! U1 setvar "ribbon.ribbon_low.warning" "off"

You can use Zebra Setup Utilities to send commands and receive status from the printer using the

Open Communication With Printer

feature.