I just purchased a QLN320 and am trying to configure it to print labels from a Cold Fusion application in the cloud. I'm not sure the easiest way to do this. One thought I had was to have Cold Fusion send an email and have the QLN320 download the email and print it that way, but in my tests I haven't been able to get it to work. Are there any good diagnostics to see why this isn't working? Am I way off base in using this approach? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -Dave
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Hi David, We're not very familiar with Cold Fusion, but If I'm understanding correctly it's a client side scripting language similar to Javascript. Also, by itself I don't think the QLn can download an email directly. It doesn't have an email server, just the ability to send in very specific circumstances.
Based on that, I have two things to look into. Does Cold Fusion allow you to open a straight TCP socket? That's probably the easiest method. It would only work though if the printers are on the same notwork as your ColdFusion app or have a port open. The other option I'm thinking might work is the Browser Print SDK | Link-OS | Zebra tool or something similar. It is a client side app that takes Javascript based calls to handle communication to the printer.
There are other options but these are the ones I think might be easiest to implement.