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Open Control Panel. Click "Printers and Faxes" Click "Add Printer" Click "Next" at the welcome screen. Click "Local printer attached to this computer" and deselect "Automatically detect and install...". Click "Next". Click "Create New Port" and from the drop-down select "Standard TCP/IP" port. At the Port Wizard Welcome screen click "Next" For Printer Name or IP Address, put the hostname or IP of your printer and click "Next" If prompted for a Device Type, select "Generic Network Card". Click "Next". A summary page will display with your port information. Click "Finish". The Printer Wizard will continue. When prompted for Manufacturer, click "Generic". For printer, select "Generic/Text Only". Click "Next". If prompted to keep the driver, click "Keep the existing driver". Click "Next". Type the printe...

From the desktop, click "System --> Administration --> Printing " Click " New " (Printer) Be patient while Ubuntu searches for printers... Select "Network Printer --> AppSocket/HP JetDirect" . For host, put the IP address or hostname of your printer. Port is usually default of 9100. Click "Forward" Select printer make " Generic ". Click " Forward ". Click model " Raw ", Drivers " Generic Raw Queue [en] ". Click " Forward ". Name the printer appropriately such as " zebra ". Click " Apply ". Your new printer " zebra " should now list. You can now use this as a raw print queue. End of Steps -Tres

Here's a set of screenshots for setting up raw printing through OS X. This was especially useful for using the jZebra application for printing to a raw printer from a web page running on an OS X workstation. Tested Nov 6, 2009 on OS X 10.5 running CUPS 1.3.8. Load Safari or Firefox to http://localhost:631 and click The "Administration" tab, then "Add Printer" Type the name of your printer and click "Continue" Be patient as the CUPS server responds to the new printer request For device, leave default "AppSocket/HP JetDirect" and click "Continue" For URI put the address of the network printer in format "socket://address:port". Port can be left blank if default (9100). Click "Continue" For Make/Manufacturer, select "Raw" from the list of manufacturers and click "Continue" For "Model" click "Raw Queue (en)" which should be the only option in the drop-down menu. Click ...