How to stop a Zebra Printer RW 420 from automatically feeding lots of extra paper when issuing command printImage from printer.getGraphicsUtil?

Question

I am using a zebra RW420 in an android project and I am coding and I find that even when simply testing the printer using the ZSDK Developer Demos the printer is printing lo

Answer 1

Do you have the keyword "FORM" in your CPCL label? It's usually before PRINT

This tells the printer to form feed after printing to the top-of-form setting the printer is configured to. To disable it, you can remove the FORM keyword from your format if you don't need it, or you can set the top-of-form to 0.

! U1 getvar "media.tof"

will show you what your top-of-form is currently set to

! U1 setvar "media.tof" "0"

will set it to 0, so that the FORM will feed 0 dots