Zebra Printing in Smartforms

Hi Experts,
    Can you give  me a step by step procedure to create a smartform for Zebra Printing. HOw different is it from normal smartform development?
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Ravi

Hi Ravi,
My name is Andy Rogerson and I work for Zebra Technologies. Please send me an email to [email protected] and I can send you a Whitepaper that steps your through what you need to do to print to a Zebra printer.
It is essentially the same as any other printer but there are some differences when it comes to barcodes.
Regards,
Andy

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