Zebra ZXP 7 User Manual

ZXP Series 7™

Card Printer

Linux Installation Guide

P1075234-001

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Contents

Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 1

Installing the Driver ............................................................................................................................. 3

Installation Wizard ............................................................................................................................................................ 3

USB Printer Driver Installation ................................................................................................................................... 5

Ethernet Printer Driver Installation .............................................................................................................................8

Uninstall .........................................................................................................................................................................10

Silent Installation from Terminal .....................................................................................................................................12

Adding a USB Printer ..................................................................................................................................................... 13

Adding an Ethernet Printer via Terminal Command ....................................................................................................... 13

Command ................................................................................................................................................................ 13

Example ................................................................................................................................................................... 13

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Introduction

Important • The driver cannot be manually installed as a standard CUPS printer Driver. The Zebra ZXP

Series 7 Card Printer Linux driver has speci󰘰c unique CUPS Printer back-end 󰘰lters that must be installed

using the driver Installer to operate correctly.

This manual describes installing the Linux printer driver on the following operating systems:

y Ubuntu 14.04.5 (64-bit)

This procedure supports the following Zebra card printers:

y ZXP Series 7

For support or product questions please contact your Zebra Reseller, Zebra Technical Support, or email CardLinux@

zebra.com.

To verify that you have a supported Ubuntu Linux OS installation, open a terminal prompt and type the following

command:

cat /etc/lsb-release

To verify that you have a 64-bit Linux OS, open the terminal window and enter the following command:

uname -m

The following text string will be returned:

y For a 32-bit OS:

i386 or i686

y For a 64-bit OS:

X86_64

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