R63.16.x, R63.15.x, and R x Summary of Firmware Changes

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1 R63.16.x, R63.15.x, and R x Firmware Release Number Release Date See Page R Z 11 November 2008 page 1 R Z 01 August 2008 page 3 R Z 20 November 2007 page 7 R ZD 15 December 2006 page 10 R ZC 13 October 2006 page 11 R ZB 05 July 2006 page 12 R ZA 15 June 2006 page 12 R Z 31 March 2006 page 13 R Z Release Date: 11 November 2008 This firmware includes all features of previous base versions R Z (see page 3). It is for use with the following printer models: Changes Support added for the SEH brand PS105-Z and PS102-Z IPv6 print server. Rectangular Datamatrix bar codes are now supported. A new aspect ratio parameter has been added to the ^BX command to support this new functionality. Refer to the ZPL II Programming Guide for complete details. Issues Corrected RFID mode corrected when RFID mode is set by ^MMF command. Writing to RFID Gen2 tags in EPC Format to memory banks other than 96-bit EPC attempts to write wrong number of bytes. Printer web pages now load when using advanced wireless security settings. Intermittent image distortion issue when printing graphics no longer occurs. Formats using graphics and binary 02, 03, 0f characters now print correctly. 170PAX4 will no longer return to the pause state once the cover has been closed and the printer taken out of pause ZIH Corp. All product names and numbers are Zebra trademarks, and Zebra and the Zebra logo are registered trademarks of ZIH Corp. All rights reserved L /10/2008

2 2 R Z Wired Note It is recommended to use firmware version or later on the external 10/100 PrintServer. Wireless Notes The following items are issues Zebra has noted during testing with various wireless networking products: Conflicts can exist between the Symbol LA-4137CF and some Cisco Access Points. This is characterized by the RF card reaching the Maximum Retry timeout. Conflicts can exist between the B Symbol LA-4137CF and G support on some Access Points. One potential work-around is to disable G support on the Access Point. It is recommended to set WPA Handshaking to It is recommended to disable the Aironet Extensions. It is recommended to use Cisco Access Point firmware 12.3(8)JAE1 or later. The Wireless Plus option board firmware has been updated to version Table 1 Wireless Plus PrintServer and Internal Wireless Plus PrintServer Security Support Securities Supported Cisco CB21 (CardBus) Cisco 350 LA-4121 LA-4137CF (Compact Flash) Internal Wireless Plus Open Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes KERBEROS Not Supported Not Supported Yes Yes Not Supported WEP 40-bit & 128-bit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes LEAP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes PEAP Yes Not Supported Yes Yes Yes EAP- FAST Yes Not Supported Yes Yes Yes EAP-TLS Yes Not Supported Yes Yes Yes EAP-TTLS Yes Not Supported Yes Yes Yes WPA PSK Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes WPA LEAP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes WPA PEAP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes WPA EAP- FAST Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes WPA EAP-TLS Yes Yes Not Supported Yes Yes WPA EAP-TTLS Yes Yes Not Supported Yes Yes WPA2 PSK Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Yes WPA2 LEAP Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Yes 14055L /10/2008

3 R Z 3 Table 1 Wireless Plus PrintServer and Internal Wireless Plus PrintServer Security Support Securities Supported Cisco CB21 (CardBus) Cisco 350 LA-4121 LA-4137CF (Compact Flash) Internal Wireless Plus WPA2 PEAP Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Yes WPA2 EAP- FAST Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Yes WPA2 EAP-TLS Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Yes WPA2 EAP-TTLS Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Yes R Z Release Date: 01 August 2008 This firmware includes all features of previous base versions R Z (see page 7). It is for use with the following printer models: Changes Extended RFID Power Settings (0-30) RFID Transponder Calibration now does 1 mm steps RFID HW Version listed on front panel and config labels. New SetGetDo Commands. Refer to the ZPL II Programming Guide for complete details. The Wireless Plus option board firmware has been updated to version Support for the USPS Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMB) was added. This barcode is also known as OneCode. Elements in USPS IMB have 4 states - Full, Ascender, Tracker and Descender. Example This is an example of a USPS Intelligent Mail bar code: ZPL II CODE USPS INTELLIGENT MAIL BAR CODE ^XA ^FO100,040^BZ,40,,,3 ^FD ^FS ^XZ R63.16.x and later firmware is ZBI 2.0-Ready 11/10/ L-004

4 4 R Z ZBI 2.0 can be enabled by placing a ZBI 2.0 key on the printer via the ZBI Key Manager & Downloader utility. Printers can be ordered from the factory with the ZBI 2.0 option enabled. Printers can be ZBI-Enabled in the field by purchasing and using a ZBI Key Kit. Printers can be ZBI-Enabled in the field by purchasing a key at Printers which have been ZBI-Enabled will not display a Z at the end of the firmware version string. For example, a printer which has been ZBI-Enabled will display the firmware version as V , while a printer which has not been ZBI-Enabled will display the firmware version as V Z The printer configuration label will display the ZBI status for the printer: ZBI-Enabled Not ZBI-Enabled The printer configuration label will list which ZBI program is running. ZBI 2.0 is backwards compatible with previous versions of ZBI. Any code which was specifically written to handle a maximum string length of 255 characters will need to be reviewed to ensure it works with unlimited string lengths. Other new ZBI 2.0 Features: Applicator port control List ZBI programs from the front panel Start/Stop ZBI programs from the front panel Button presses on front panel can be registered as events in ZBI programs. Support for longer strings, the length of the string dependent on available memory. Support for NULL values in Strings and String operations SNMP & Set/Get/Do (SGD) Control of ZBI On-printer Debugging (via ZBI-Developer) ZBI 2.0 Program Encryption ZBI 2.0 programs can be made hidden and/or persistent New ZBI 2.0 Commands: New ZBI 2.0 Commands ACCEPT INTTOHEX$ ADDBREAK READ AUXPORT_GETPIN REGISTEREVENTS 14055L /10/2008

5 R Z 5 New ZBI 2.0 Commands AUXPORT_RELEASEPIN SERVERSOCKET AUXPORT_SETPIN SPLIT AUXPORT_STEALPIN SPLITCOUNT CLIENTSOCKET SUB CLOSE ALL TCPX DELBREAK TRIGGEREVENT HANDLEEVENT UNREGISTEREVENTS HEXTOINT WRITE * See the latest ZPL manual (available at for details on new commands. Issues Corrected Securities Supported RFID Tag Data display shows 15 characters instead of 16 characters. Updated wireless print server to work with latest revision of CISCO AP firmware. Timing of writes to memory cards has been enhanced to allow for variation in cards Wireless print servers now respond correctly to LPQ Stat inquiry. Wireless print servers now respond correctly to LPD job control messages. The torque used on PAX printers during calibration has been corrected. PAX printers will go into pause when the cover is opened. The ^HW command now offer a new parameter to control the response format.* Closing the console from within a running ZBI program now closes the console. Datamatrix now correctly serializes long alphanumeric strings. Characters in the Msung.font are no longer replaced with the ~ character when the format is sent multiple times. The { character is no longer intermittently encoded in the DataMatrix barcodes. * See the latest ZPL manual (available at for details on new commands. Table 2 Wireless Plus PrintServer Security Support Cisco CB21 (CardBus) Cisco 350 LA-4121 LA-4137CF (Compact Flash) Open Yes Yes Yes Yes KERBEROS Not Supported Not Supported Yes Yes WEP 40-bit & 128-bit Yes Yes Yes Yes LEAP Yes Yes Yes Yes PEAP Yes Not Supported Yes Yes EAP- FAST Yes Not Supported Yes Yes 11/10/ L-004

6 6 R Z Securities Supported Table 2 Wireless Plus PrintServer Security Support (Continued) Cisco CB21 (CardBus) Cisco 350 LA-4121 LA-4137CF (Compact Flash) EAP-TLS Yes Not Supported Yes Yes EAP-TTLS Yes Not Supported Yes Yes WPA PSK Yes Yes Yes Yes WPA LEAP Yes Yes Yes Yes WPA PEAP Yes Yes Yes Yes WPA EAP- FAST Yes Yes Yes Yes WPA EAP-TLS Yes Yes Not Supported Yes WPA EAP-TTLS Yes Yes Not Supported Yes WPA2 PSK Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported WPA2 LEAP Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported WPA2 PEAP Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported WPA2 EAP- FAST Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported WPA2 EAP-TLS Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported WPA2 EAP-TTLS Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Wireless Notes The following items are issues Zebra has noted during testing with various wireless networking products: Conflicts can exist between the Symbol LA-4137CF and some Cisco Access Points. This is characterized by the RF card reaching the Maximum Retry timeout. Conflicts can exist between the B Symbol LA-4137CF and G support on some Access Points. One potential work-around is to disable G support on the Access Point. It is recommended to set WPA Handshaking to It is recommended to disable the Aironet Extensions. It is recommended to use Cisco Access Point firmware 12.3(8)JAE1 or later. The Wireless Plus option board firmware has been updated to version Wired Note It is recommended to use firmware version or later on the external 10/100 PrintServer L /10/2008

7 R Z 7 R Z Release Date: 20 November 2007 This firmware includes all features of previous base versions R ZD (see page 10) and V Z. It is for use with the following print engine models: New Features RFID Unicode Support. Support for Wireless Plus. Default tag type = Gen2. Default read power = low. Default write power = low. Default power = low. Default print mode = RFID for all RFID products except PAX. For PAX, default will continue to be Applicator mode. Added more RFID settings to ^HZA output. Added RFID webpage. Added RFID Set-Get-Do commands. Enhanced ^HL, ^HV, ~RV commands. Enhanced RFID Mode to work with batches of formats with ^PQ1 UCODE EPC 1.19 and ISO B now supported on all UHF firmware versions. Class 1, 64-bit tags no longer supported on R63, ZSP994, ZSP999, ZSP1027, ZSP1056, and ZSP1082 Added RFID Quick Write ZPL Command (^RQ) Changes and Issues Corrected Fonts in A: memory are now saved after a power cycle. Printer web pages now display correctly when the CB21 is used. Selected field miss-prints on 300dpi printers when Darkness is set to +25 are resolved. Blank lines no longer appear on date fields during long print runs. Use of ^FV no longer automatically causes text to be capitalized. Formats with two ^FD commands in same field no longer delay printing. Graphics sent and stored using the ^GFA ^DF commands are now correctly recalled. Greek characters will now print correctly when using a XML format and Swiss 721 font. Inconsistent calibration of notched media on the Z4MPlus resolved. 11/10/ L-004

8 8 R Z Issue with graphics printing in wrong orientation is resolved. Issue with graphic fields on left half of label being truncated is now resolved. Sending a ~JA command to a printer in the same connection while also printing an XML format will cancel the format. XML-Enabled Printing is now supported on printers running v z/r z and later. See the Zebra XML-Enabled printer site at for additional details. This new feature does not alter the ZPL capabilities of the printer. A new SGD command "device.xml.enable" allows users to turn XML-Enabled printing on or off when used as a setvar, or to check the status of the XML-Enabled printing feature when used as a getvar. When the "Default Network" selection is made from the front panel, the following settings will be defaulted: IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway WINS server Address Connection Timeout Checking Connection Checking Timeout Value ARP Broadcast Interval Base Raw Port Number IP Protocol Client Identifier Settings Set Antenna Wireless Password Transmit Rate Wireless Card Values Wireless Securities When the "Default Printer" selection is made from the front panel, the following wireless print server settings will be defaulted: Primary Network Device Wired Print Server Search SNMP Settings Set Primary Set SMTP Web Authentication Timeout New Wireless Securities (see compatibility chart below): WPA2 PSK WPA2 PEAP 14055L /10/2008

9 R Z 9 Securities Supported WPA2 LEAP WPA2 EAP-TLS WPA2 EAP-TTLS WPA2 EAP-FAST The Communications Diagnostics mode format has been changed to match the format used on the ZM400 and ZM600 printers. Set Date and Set Time are instantly updated when setting the value on the front panel. Menu items now use +/ - indicators if applicable. The version number on the LCD is left justified. Changing the language on the LCD is now immediate. Displays previously displayed with cursors now display with the gauge blocks. When it is necessary to display as asterisk, the phrase on the LCD will be moved one position so that the asterisk can be displayed to the left of the phrase. When FORMAT CARD is displayed on the LCD, the A memory option will be displayed on the left and the B memory option will be displayed on the right. CONTROL PREFIX, FORMAT PREFIX, DELIMITER CHAR, LEFT POSITION, RTC DATE, RTC TIME are displayed with the '+' and '-' characters to indicate incrementing and decrementing. Maintenance Alerts (via the ^MI and ^MA commands)*. Short Calibration (via the ^MF command)*. The ability to reset the head cleaned counter (via the ~RO command)*. The ability to print odometer, maintenance, alert of printhead information via the ~WQ command*. The front panel will now display the Active PrintServer, if available. This value does not display if the parallel port connected print server has bi-directionality turned off, or if bidirectionality is turned off on the front panel. Support for Host MIB 1514 has been added for the Wireless Plus print server. The Wireless Plus option board firmware has been updated to version * See the latest ZPL manual (available at for details on new commands. Table 3 Wireless Plus PrintServer Security Support Cisco CB21 (CardBus) Cisco 350 LA-4121 LA-4137CF (Compact Flash) Open Yes Yes Yes Yes KERBEROS Not Supported Not Supported Yes Yes WEP 40-bit & 128-bit Yes Yes Yes Yes LEAP Yes Yes Yes Yes PEAP Yes Not Supported Yes Yes EAP- FAST Yes Not Supported Yes Yes 11/10/ L-004

10 10 R ZD Securities Supported Table 3 Wireless Plus PrintServer Security Support (Continued) Cisco CB21 (CardBus) Cisco 350 LA-4121 LA-4137CF (Compact Flash) EAP-TLS Yes Not Supported Yes Yes EAP-TTLS Yes Not Supported Yes Yes WPA PSK Yes Yes Yes Yes WPA LEAP Yes Yes Yes Yes WPA PEAP Yes Yes Yes Yes WPA EAP- FAST Yes Yes Yes Yes WPA EAP-TLS Yes Yes Not Supported Yes WPA EAP-TTLS Yes Yes Not Supported Yes WPA2 PSK Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported WPA2 LEAP Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported WPA2 PEAP Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported WPA2 EAP- FAST Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported WPA2 EAP-TLS Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported WPA2 EAP-TTLS Yes Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Wireless Notes The following items are issues Zebra has noted during testing with various wireless networking products: Conflicts can exist between the Symbol LA-4137CF and some Cisco Access Points. This is characterized by the RF card reaching the Maximum Retry timeout. Conflicts can exist between the B Symbol LA-4137CF and G support on some Access Points. One potential work-around is to disable G support on the Access Point. It is recommended to set WPA Handshaking to It is recommended to disable the Aironet Extensions. It is recommended to use Cisco Access Point firmware 12.3(8)JAE1 or later. R ZD Release Date: 15 December 2006 This firmware includes all features of previous base version R ZC. It is for use with the following print engine models: Summary: 14055L /10/2008

11 R ZC 11 New Features Added new parameter to ^RF command to provide access to Gen2 memory banks. Issues Corrected NA R ZC Release Date: 13 October 2006 This firmware includes all features of previous base version R ZB. It is for use with the following print engine models: New Features NA Issues Corrected Restored part of the serialized field code to what was in R Z to correctly read tags on multiple label formats using field numbers. This problem appeared when another bug was fixed in service pack A. The fix for that bug remains. Corrected a bug where a no motion label, which voided and fed to the next label, would forget that it was no motion on the retries. The firmware now restores the intended motion after a label has been voided. If the print head where opened during a transponder calibration the printer would lock up. The firmware now correctly shuts off the motor after an error during transponder calibration. If a transponder calibration was performed with a label length longer than the actual label with the transponder the firmware would use a program position that was larger than the label. The firmware will now check for this case and limit the program position to the default (label length mm). When a printer runs RFID firmware without a reader installed, the firmware interpreted < as the start of XML, and prevented further parsing of data. Essentially locking up the label generating command parser. This firmware correctly disables XML allowing the < character to be parsed as if it where a standard printer without XML. 11/10/ L-004

12 12 R ZB R ZB Release Date: 05 July 2006 This firmware includes all features of previous base version R ZA. It is for use with the following print engine models: New Features Modified settings in the RFID reader. Issues Corrected NA R ZA Release Date: 15 June 2006 This firmware includes all features of previous base version R Z. It is for use with the following print engine models: New Features NA Issues Corrected Revised loader code Compiled in the correct firmware for the LA-4137 wireless card Corrected a serialization bug where text and RFID fields with the same field number would not increment correctly. The test field would count one too many. This version syncronizes the serialized fields with common field numbers(^fn). Corrected a serialization bug where the total label count would decrement by one if a printer error was detected while encoding an RFID tag. This release assures the requested print quantity(^pq) will print and that the counters will display correctly on the LCD. Printer errors( head open, paper out, etc.) 14055L /10/2008

13 R Z 13 R Z Release Date: 31 March 2006 This firmware release provides enhanced XML versioning, logging features, and improved GEN2 locking. It includes all features of previous R # releases. It is for use with the following printer models: Important Effective 31 March 2006, Zebra will no longer offer ZBI functionality. After 31 March 2006, Zebra will no longer make, distribute, or support firmware with ZBI functionality on any new products. After 01 September 2006, all support for ZBI functionality on all products will end. Printers made after 31 March 2006 will no longer accept firmware created before 31 March New Features and Issues Corrected Password protected: Power, Tag Type, and Tag Calibrate on front panel. Void and Valid label counters now appear on front panel, and can be reset via the right arrow button (w/ correct password). Program position now shows up at front of RFID Slow test; the timing has been improved here as well to make viewing better. When RESTORE is pressed from tag calibrate, there is an acknowledgement RFID PROGRAM POSITION RESTORED! Eliminated auto calibration on LOAD DEFAULTS. RFID data logging; always on, use ~HL or ^HL to retrieve and clear. Gen2 locking improvements: improved error handling (exceptions) If password is not 8 characters (hex) an error is generated Re-sync with.13za firmware (Remington out of sync issue) also Wireless fix / support for Symbol Compact Flash wireless. XML versioning. New ZPL Commands ~HL Font Log ^HL Host Log ^RFP ^RF is not new. T the 'P' operation was added (all the existing ones, such as R, W, and L are unchanged). If the operation is P, we can know to use the letter representation. Note For Gen2 tags, the operation L is not used 11/10/ L-004

14 14 R Z Sample Logging The printer is always logging RFID data. When the user sends either a ~HL or ^HL, the printer will return a log to the host. The data returned represents the status of the RFID read and write commands and shows any respective error codes (see appendix for error codes). When a machine is powered on, the log is empty. Sending ~HL will return the following: <STX><start> <end><etx> The log, after RFID commands have been issued, will have the following format: <STX><start> C,EEEE,DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD... <end><etx> For example: C= Operation (R=Read, W=Write, L=Lock) EEEE = Error code (see appendix for error codes) DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD = Data read or written <STX><start> W,0000,12345 W,0000,12345 W,0000,12345 <end><etx> Above shows nine write operations, the associated error status, and data written. The data is in the format sent by the ^RFW command. The data will either be in ASCII, Hex or EPC format. Sending ~HL or ^HL will send the RFID log to the host. It will also clear the log and start logging new data L /10/2008

15 R Z 15 The internal buffer that contains the data log is 64K in size. If the log goes beyond this size (~2000 operations), the log will clear itself, and restart recording automatically. If the log does automatically clear itself, the user will see this in the log: <STX><start> E,FFFF,Logfile automatically reset W,0000,12345 W,0000,12345 <end><etx> The data log is stored in RAM, so if power is lost, you will lose the log. If the results are important, it s recommend to frequently retrieve/clear the log. 11/10/ L-004