Zebra Lable Printer Integration

[Christian_Nicke]

Does anyone know how to invoke and print job from appsheet to print lables on a Zebra label printer? The printer has both Bluetooth and Wifi connectivity.

[WillowMobileSys]

Did you ever get a solution to this?

[williangyn]

Estou precisando também

[Jacquouille]

Do you have a solution ? 

[peterson]

Have you guys,  tried this solution on the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BScGFR82lN0

[WillowMobileSys]

This was posted some time ago, but I thought a comprehensive response was prudent for other who encounter this post.

First, there is no direct printing from AppSheet to local printers.   However, there are two ways you can print - both require a file to send to the printer:

1) Send file to printer manually - Once a file, image or document, has been created from AppSheet, open that file to view it.  Those viewer apps in many cases include a Print option or some way to send to a printer.  Choose that option to send to a printer of your choice.  The advantage is that you do not need to implement anything else in AppSheet for this to work.  It's there depending on the viewer including the option.  The disadvantage is that there are several clicks required to send each file.  No the nest solution if you need to send more than a dozen files to print each time.

2)  Automated printing - This requires setting up one or two additional accounts to handle the redirect of a file to a printer from a webhook within AppSheet.  As shown in the video in @peterson 's post in this thread, you can setup an account to a dedicated printing web service, establish a list of available printers and then us a webhook to specify which file is printed and to which printer.  

Additionally, you can use integrator services (e.g. Make) to control the printing process.  These usually include their own web printing service or you can even integrate with service NOT already in their list.  You would setup an account with the integrator service and then another account with the web printing service.  Why use an integrator?  You can build out a process that does many other activities as part of the print process.  Or build a process that is not tied explicitly to AppSheet and can be used by several other "contributors".  For example, the integrator service could "monitor" a folder and take action when something is placed in that folder...just for starters!

NOTE: Many web service have a FREE usage limit - you can use the services for free each month until the amount of usage exceeds a certain threshold.

I hope this helps someone out there.

[Euder]

I got a solution by generating a PDF. It is important to check two points:
1) When creating a Google Docs document, a page break must be inserted before <<End>>, as each page is a label;
2) Carefully read the page formatting and corresponding margins for each label size in the following Zebra documents: <URL removed by staff>

I hope this tip helps fellow developers.