Survos Zebra Bundle

Symfony bundle for Zebra ZPL preview and printing workflows.

Status

This bundle is small and focused: it previews Zebra ZPL through Labelary and sends print jobs through common server-side transports.

Current features:

• SurvosZebraBundle using AbstractBundle
• In-bundle service registration without services.php
• Labelary-backed preview client and cache wrapper
• Twig extension with zpl_preview() support
• Optional Twig component for label preview
• TCP, CUPS, file, USB, and null print transports

BrowserPrint/client-side USB support is intentionally not part of the current server-side bundle surface.

Configuration

survos_zebra:
  labelary:
    endpoint: 'https://api.labelary.com/v1'
    api_key: null
    timeout: 10
  cache:
    enabled: true
    pool: cache.app
    ttl: 86400
  defaults:
    label_size: gk420d_2_25x1_25
    dpmm: 8
    width_inches: 4.0
    height_inches: 2.0
    format: png
  label_sizes:
    gk420d_2_25x1_25:
      width_inches: 2.25
      height_inches: 1.25
      dpmm: 8
      description: 'Zebra GK420d 2.25 x 1.25 inch label'
  printers:
    zebra:
      type: cups
      queue: zebra
      dpi: 203
      label_width_in: 2.25
      label_height_in: 1.25
    spool:
      type: file
      path: '%kernel.project_dir%/var/zpl'
      dpi: 203
      label_width_in: 2.25
      label_height_in: 1.25
  default_printer: zebra

For USB-attached GK420d printers on Linux, prefer a CUPS queue that uses the CUPS USB backend, for example usb://Zebra/..., then print with type: cups. Avoid writing directly to /dev/usb/lp*; that path depends on usblp and can leave transport and interpreter failures hard to distinguish. See docs/gk420d-reliable-printing.md.

The print service automatically prepends the ZPL interpreter guard:

^XA^SZ2^XZ

It also wraps each label with the configured media dimensions:

^XA
^PW457
^LL254
...label body...
^XZ

Do not rely on printer-stored defaults for print width or label length. A GK420d defaults to a 4 inch print width, so narrower stock can produce blank or partial labels when content lands outside the physical media. Configure each printer profile with dpi, label_width_in, and label_height_in; the bundle converts inches to dots with:

dots = inches * dpi

Common 203 dpi sizes:

Label size	^PW	^LL
2.25 x 1.25 in	457	254
2.25 x 1 in	457	203
4 x 6 in	812	1218
4 x 2 in	812	406
3 x 1 in	609	203

PrinterServiceInterface::testLabel() prints a small known-good label using the configured dimensions. calibrate() sends ^XA^JC^XZ for new media. saveSettings() persists ^PW and ^LL with ^JUS, but should be treated as an advanced single-printer setup command; normal jobs remain explicit per print.

Twig Usage

<img src="{{ zpl_preview(zpl) }}" alt="Label preview">

Named label sizes are also supported:

<img src="{{ zpl_preview(zpl, 'gk420d_2_25x1_25') }}" alt="GK420d label preview">

If symfony/ux-twig-component is installed, the bundle also registers:

<twig:Zebra:Preview :zpl="zpl" />

You can override the configured default size per component render:

<twig:Zebra:Preview :zpl="zpl" labelSize="gk420d_2_25x1_25" />

Verification

This repository includes a dependency-light smoke test for the bundle primitives:

php smoke-test.php
composer validate --strict