Support for Zebra Network Printer Driver on iOS?

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Good morning folks,

My team has several apps that use the Zebra Network Driver to call a few different printers over the WiFi - thus far, all these apps have been run on Windows. Recently, the mfg. team purchased a few iPads to use as Tulip stations, but we quickly discovered that the printing triggers would not work. Looking at the page for the Network Driver, the driver is only available on Windows. Is there any solution to get around this issue or are we out of luck?

Thanks in advance for the help!

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Just bumping this along as would be of interest to us too - planning to potentially use some iPads and getting them working with Zebra printers would be a bonus.

Any input from the Tulip team?

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@MarkStuttard @BOrmond Let me check with the team and get back to you!

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@MarkStuttard @BOrmond

Okay it seems there may be 2 options here:

  1. You can use an Edge device (Edge MC would suffice) and use the Zebra Printer driver

  2. You can setup one Windows PC running player and leave it running somewhere near the zebra printer. Then the app triggers can be changed to "Run device function Zebra Network Printer at (instead of At this Station)

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Do either of these seem feasible for you?

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Thanks @Beth - I thought this may be the solution but appreciate you checking up on it.

Having a centralised print player would likely be the best option - obviously takes up a license but likely workable for us right now.

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Hi Beth, that second option sounds like the way we’re going to go since we have some Windows stations already running. Thank you for the response!

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An update here - with Player 2.7.0 Release you can now print directly from a Macbook (or Linux) that is running Player 2.7.0 (or later).

Note: You need to set up triggers appropriately to send the print command to the Player on Macbook instead of using the “At this station” option. Also, the Macbook needs to be always online and player running all the time, so screen locks, auto logout etc needs to be disabled on the Mac.

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@Beth - to confirm, this is still not possible on the iPad, correct?

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@landers I’ve got the same problem.

@Beth Do you know what drivers are supported on iPads? I don’t find the Edge Driver Support page clear on that matter. According to my (short) research, Apple’s main OSes are:

  • macOS on desktop and laptop computers (this includes macbooks). This is labelled “Mac” in the aforementioned page.
  • iOS on smartphones (iPhones).
  • iPadOS on tablets (iPads). This one is probably less “famous” than the other two, but it does exist and is different.

According to Wikipedia, iPadOS is a kind of “mix” between macOS and iOS so it is not clear at all what this OS supports. Moreover, iPadOS is not explicitly mentioned on the page. We can suppose it’s under the “Mobile devices” (iOS) column but that’s just a guess…

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Hi @fti,

You’re correct that iPadOS is not explicitly mentioned on our Edge Driver Support page. Currently, iPadOS is not supported for the Zebra Network Driver.

The driver only works on Windows and macOS. For iPads, you still need one of these workarounds:

  1. Use an Edge device with the Zebra Printer driver
  2. Setup a Windows PC running Player near the printer and change triggers to “Run device function” instead of “At this Station”

iPadOS falls under the “Mobile devices” category which means it’s not supported for direct printing.

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