Equipment/WASP WPL305E

Barcode printer
Model	WASP WPL-305e
Sub-category	Office equipment
Status	Good working order
Consumables	labels and ink
Accessories	Unknown
Training requirement	yes
Training link	Unknown
ACnode	no
Owner	LHS
Origin	Unknown
Location	In the kiosk, printing labels

Has usb, serial and parallel connections.

Works

Prints onto stickey labels.

http://www.waspbarcode.com/printers/wpl305_barcode_printer.asp

All-in-one firmware, includes: WPL, WPLE (Eltron emulation) and WPLZ (Zebra emulation)

8 alpha-numeric bitmap fonts, one true type font

BARCODES 1D barcode: Code 39, Code 39C, Code 93, Code128UCC, Code128 subsets A.B.C, Codabar, Interleave 2 of 5, EAN-8, EAN-13, EAN-128, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN and UPC 2(5) digits add-on, MSI, PLESSEY, POSTNET, China Post, ITF 14, EAN 14

2D barcode: PDF-417, Maxicode, DataMatrix, QR code

Afaict has no docs for the printer language or open source drivers :(

WPL programming docs:

http://support.waspbarcode.com/MRcgi/MRTicketPage.pl?USER=&MRP=0&MAJOR_MODE=DETAILS&MAXMININC=&MRNUMBERLIST=21429%2C25365%2C21228%2C21230%2C48264%2C21232%2C23874%2C27641%2C24243%2C23455%2C24822%2C122063%2C52662%2C25054%2C25211%2C24708%2C24730%2C24691%2C24692%2C24693&LASTID=47876&ABN=&GRPDETAIL=&HISTORYKEY=&CUSTM=&MR=21232&PROJECTID=1

cups supports the Zebra protocol (ZPL), but i've not got it to work reliably.

• recalibrate

repo

Some code here:

https://github.com/londonhackspace/wasp-label-printer

status

Working, the current labels we have for it are 2.abit inches x .75 in

New stickers:

http://www.waspbarcode.co.uk/barcode_printers/wpl305_printer_supplies.asp

http://www.misco.co.uk/product/105309/WASP-WPL305-Quad-Pack-4inch-X-2inch-LABELS-TT-5inchOD

works out as ~£40 for a pack of 4.

Our existing Do Not Hack stickers are roughly 3.75in x 3.75in.