I have printer TSC TE 210. I created virtual printer on a RedMon port and installed TSC driver on it. I am able to generate printfile.prn file using redmon (redirecting output to python, that will edit the data and create .prn file), that has TSPL commands it it, e.g.: SIZE 97.6 mm, 50 mm GAP 3 mm, 0 mm DIRECTION 0,0 REFERENCE 0,0 OFFSET 0 mm SET PEEL OFF SET CUTTER OFF SET PARTIAL_CUTTER OFF SET TEAR ON CLS BITMAP 361,170,50,32,1,˙đ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙đ˙˙ü ˙˙˙˙˙˙ TEXT 586,152,"2",180,1,1,1,"1234AA" PRINT 1,1 Everything is good. I can edit the TSPL commands, add something etc, and then send it to real printer using copy printfile.prn /B "TSC TE210" (on windows) It works, because the generated .prn file has TSPL commands, and I am also sending TSPL commands to the printer for real printing. The problem is, I would like to create also PDF. I am able to do it! Also use redmon, but instead of forwarding it to python script, I used PostScript, that can indeed generate the pdf file. This virtual printer used PostScript driver. However, how to generate both files (.prn having TSPL), and .pdf file in the same time? I want to be super user friendly, print it once, and generate TSPL and pdf in the same time. What is limiting me? The thing I mentioned - using first approach, the virtual printer has to have TSC driver installed, that is why it generated TSPL commands. Second virtual printer has PS driver installed, that is why it generated PostScript file, that can be changed into PDF. But I can not have both driver installed on the same RedMon virtual printer. Any idea how to do it? I know I can create a script, that just take TSPL commands from the first approach, and somehow create PDF step by step. But that is really much work. I can probably create just PDF using PostScript, and try to work only with PDF, when everything is edited, try to print PDF on thermal printer, but thermal printers really dont like PDF, since the size of labels is not A4. And I would love to keep the native TSPL format for easier edits. Any solution, where I can use same data to create TSPL and PDF in one run? TLTR: I can create TSPL or PDF files using RedMon, but can not do both in the same run. Any trick that could do it? Continue reading...
