4 ZSim v5.XX User‘s Guide
Configuring ZSim for the First Time
After you power on your printer, the ZSim menu takes you to the Initial
Setup Configuration menu.
Note: For the EasyCoder PD41, the configuration is generated
automatically since no menu is available. More information
can be found in the next section.
1 Turn on your printer.
e printer steps through an initialization process that ends with
the printer displaying “Starting Up Please Wait!” before it tries to
find the media. Once the printer finds the media length, the first
Configuration menu item appears:
Initial Setup
Enter=Start
2 Step through the Initial Setup Configuration menu changing any
incorrect values. You can view an illustration of the Initial Setup
Configuration menu on the next page.
When you are through setting the values, the printer prints a
configuration label and prompts you to save the configuration. e
Ready light now turns on and the printer screen displays a message
similar to the following message:
ZSim 5.XX
Network
You are now in ZSim Online mode.
3 Start sending Zebra commands to the printer.
Configuring ZSim through text downloads
Text file configuration is the preferred method to configure a PD41
printer running ZSim. All parameters can be set by downloading a text
file to the printer, with the following format:
^ZX[ParamName,]ParamNo,ParamValue^FS
All commands required for setting the parameters are defined in the table
below. It also contains a few commands for making easy setup changes.
Make sure you download and execute the commands one at a time, to