Support formats other than GIF for UPS label printing [#1589834]

It was suggested on Ubercart.Org that this should be a part of the UPS shipping module.

I would love to see the same printing options that are in the FedEx module, in the UPS module. That being the ability to select a thermal printer to print labels. Currently, the only option is to print an 8 1/2" x 11" page, fold it in half, and shove it in a pouch. Fine for small shippers doing a couple a day. But anyone doing serious quantities will need rolled thermal label printing.

And we hope to be doing many soon :)

Comments

Comment #1

TR CreditAttribution: TR commented 30 July 2012 at 18:13

I responded to this question on ubercart.org back on 5/10/12. Here's what I said:

Right now, GIF format is hardwired into the uc_ups module. You can edit the code to change that, or better yet contribute a patch that adds an administration selection for the format. UPS supports GIF, ZPL, EPL, and SPL formats. The problem you will face is getting the file to the printer - browsers don't have built-in drivers for thermal printer formats, so you'll need to find and install a driver if you want to use the normal Ubercart workflow of printing one label at a time, or you'll have to have some other way of taking the labels from disk and sending them to your printer.

Comment #2

samgreco CreditAttribution: samgreco commented 31 July 2012 at 00:37

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» Closed (works as designed)

Thanks TR. Sorry, I should have come back here and closed this. My apologies.

Comment #3

TR CreditAttribution: TR commented 31 July 2012 at 00:56

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Closed (works as designed)

» Active

Let's leave it open. It's a reasonable feature request. I don't know why the original code only supports GIF instead of every format that UPS can deliver. The uc_fedex module has code that can easily be borrowed to add this capability to uc_ups, it just requires someone to do the work. I added my response from ubercart.org simply to provide information to anyone interested in developing and contributing this feature to core Ubercart.