There I was with the a new toy -
Zebra R110Xi Printer and a 600 page instruction manual, including a 300 page Zebra programming language reference and an RFID section........so do you spend time with the manual? or unwrap and plug it in and see what happens.
I did the latter - I wasn't printing on labels (yet) where some care needs to be taken, loading unloading etc.
Let's get this puppy into RFID manager I thought...... you'd think "grab the provider and away you go".....you'd think......
1. Grab the
Zebra provider from here - http://www.zebra.com/id/zebra/na/en/index/rfid/rfid_microsoft_biztalk.html?WT.mc_id=1778 (at the bottom of the page)
2. Expand out the Zip and in there is some documentation about installing
SNMP networking services on the RFID Server - do this pretty straight forward step (it seems the Zebra provider uses SNMP to gather more info about the printer)
3. Install the
Zebra Provider in the usual manner.....outlined in the install document.
4. Next
Add a Device through the RFID manager. You will need the
IP Address of your printer and the
Port number - default 91005. I got a
FAILED to COMMUNICATE to Device ....tried again and again...here we go I thought.......maybe those 600+pages are looking promising?
6. I then did a quick hunt and found that the printer had a
Web Interface (instead of trying to set 6 million properties through the front panel and a <- and -> key) - cool. The web was the go!
7.
http://10.1.0.55 (temp IP address of my device) brought I a great Zebra Home page and I knew I was at the right place.
8. I checked out a few settings but as soon as I wanted to look into 'Printer Settings' etc. I was prompted for a
password.9. I was forced to head into the manual and the default password is
1234.
10. So I entered this password in
AND...the skies parted, the rays of light shone through......Mr. Zebra replied with"Access Granted. This IP Address now has admin
access to the restricted printer pages.
Please Click here to proceed."
11. Hey I thought........does this mean.....and BOOM - RFID MANAGER WORKED A TREAT - added the device and got access to the 'admin' pages on the printer.
12. Uploaded some *.ZPL templates and ready to tackle the next stage.....actual printing.......