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A Zebra Technologies White Paper
International Printing for mySAP
BusinessSuite – Unicode
Multinational businesses and companies working
across borders should also consider what language
support they may need from their label printer.Western
European languages are fully supported, but special
consideration must be given to Eastern European,
Middle-Eastern, and Asian languages. Zebra supports
all major business languages from 4.6c onwards
via Unicode (UTF-8) for both Smart Forms and the
SAPscript upload method using Zebra’s BAR-ONE for
mySAP™ Business Suite. It is not necessary to use
SAP 4.7 Enterprise to take advantage of Unicode with
Zebra bar code label printers. This means users can
implement the same printer model and SAP forms at all
locations without having to worry about local languages
and dialects. This avoids the need for many derivatives.
For more detailed information about our International
Printing (Unicode) Solution for SAP, download the
“Zebra’s Solution for Printing International Characters
from mySAP™ Business Suite (Unicode™ UTF-8)” white
paper at www.zebra.com/smartforms.
Mobile and Wireless Printing
Note that the main function the various SAP bar code
output solutions all provide is converting SAP data
into something the user’s printer control language
will recognise. Printer networking, interface, and
communications capabilities are unchanged. This is an
important consideration in the bar code environment,
because many innovative solutions have been
developed to provide real-time enterprise information
access and output wherever it is needed. One of the
most powerful ways to leverage the investment in an
SAP system is to extend information access to non-
office workers.Wireless networks are an effective
medium for extending information access, and wireless
printers can enhance applications by enabling output.
Zebra Xi™ series printers and select other
models, including mobile printers, can connect to
802.11b-standard wireless local area networks. Because
802.11b was created to provide the wireless equivalent
of Ethernet connectivity, the methods used for SAP
output on Ethernet networks can be applied to wireless
printers. The wireless enabled printer gets an IP address
and appears as a device on the network. Print jobs and
other commands are sent wirelessly instead of over
Ethernet cable, but all necessary data conversions
and formatting can remain the same as if a physical
connection was used. If printer drivers are used, the
same drivers used for specific models of printers will
also work for wireless versions.
Mobile printers can receive print jobs from SAP
applications in one of two ways. Network-addressable
wireless mobile printers would interface with the host
system the same way as described above for stationary
mobile printers. Mobile printers that do not connect
directly to the network would receive print jobs from
the mobile computer they are used with. It is also
possible to control mobile printers with a Bluetooth
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connection from a PC or other device, but additional
software work would be required.
SAP Console and WebSAP Console deliver SAP’s
WMS/LES transactions to the mobile worker on
handheld devices via wireless local area networks. This
same technology also fully supports Zebra’s QL series
mobile printers to empower the warehouse worker to
print labels where and when they are needed.
RFID Printing/Encoding
Zebra is the first company to offer RFID printer/
encoders that work seamlessly with SAP’S new Auto-ID
Infrastructure. Zebra offers several products with this
feature including the R110Xi™, R170Xi™, R4Mplus™
EMEA version, and R110PAX™ printer/encoders.
The new Zebra XML-based solution enables the tag
commissioning feature of SAP’s RFID software.
Learn more about Zebra’s direct connect to
SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure by visiting
www.zebra.com/smartforms. Visit www.rfid.zebra.com
to stay up to speed on Zebra RFID products and
country certifications.
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