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From the cloud architecture behind zplCloud to ZPL technical tips: everything about modern, serverless label printing.
September 14, 2026
FBA Labels Without Amazon's Label Service: FNSKU, Box and Pallet Labels from a CSV
Every unit you send to Amazon Fulfillment needs an FNSKU label, every carton a box label, every pallet four pallet labels.
September 14, 2026
Print Labels with zplCloud and Azure Service Bus - ZPL or with JSON Payloads
If your systems already talk over Azure Service Bus, the print job is a message like any other.
September 14, 2026
Weblink vs. CLI Proxy vs. CloudToBrowserPrint: Which Connection Do You Actually Need?
There are three ways to get a label from zplCloud onto a physical printer. They are routinely confused, and picking the wrong one costs a day of debugging.
September 14, 2026
A Complete Label Workflow in an Afternoon, with a Google Spreadsheet as the Database
Most label projects do not stall on the printer or the design. They stall on data: someone has to own the article list.
September 14, 2026
Deutsche Post INTERNETMARKE as ZPL: Buy Real Postage from the API and Print It on a Zebra
Shops, repair desks and logistics teams send single letters every day: a manual with an invoice, a return slip, a registered letter.
September 14, 2026
A USB-Only GK420 as a Cloud Printer: Raspberry Pi, One Agent, Under 100 Euro
If you are buying a label printer today, buy a Zebra with Link-OS - ZD421, ZD621 or bigger.
September 14, 2026
GS1 QR Code and the Digital Product Passport: one code for the checkout and the customer
Anyone linking to a product passport today usually sticks a second QR code next to the EAN barcode.
September 14, 2026
Kafka Topics Straight to the Printer: Data Streaming as a Print Trigger
Your ERP or MES already publishes order events, picking messages and serial numbers to Kafka. Usually that stream ends on a screen and a human presses print.
September 14, 2026
Online ZPL Viewer: Preview, Lint and Verify ZPL Labels Before They Print
ZPL was never meant to be read by people. It is a stream of commands for a thermal printer: ^FO moves the pen, ^A0 picks a font, ^BC draws a Code 128.
September 14, 2026
Print Views: A Browser Print UI for the Shop Floor, Generated from Your Design
The label is designed, the printer is connected, and then the actual problem appears: fifteen people on two shifts need to print it.
September 14, 2026
Print ZPL on Any Label Printer: TSC, Honeywell, SATO, Brother, Toshiba and More
ZPL is the most widely used label language there is, and it was written for Zebra printers. That is fine until the warehouse is not all Zebra.
September 14, 2026
SVG to TTF: Ship Your Logos and Icons as a Printer Font Instead of Graphics
Most labels carry a logo or a set of pictograms. The default is to export each one as a raster image and embed it in the ZPL as a ^GFA block.
September 14, 2026
Zebra Cloud Setup Speed Run: Sealed Box to Production Label in About 15 Minutes
A new Link-OS printer should be printing production labels in about fifteen minutes, not in an afternoon. Below is the run with real commands.
September 14, 2026
iqmeta GmbH joins Zebra Technologies' PartnerConnect program
Waldenbuch, Germany - September 2026. iqmeta GmbH, the company behind zplCloud.com, today announced its participation in the Zebra® PartnerConnect program.
September 14, 2026
Online viewer, desktop tool, or local script? The better question: where does your label pipeline run?
Anyone working with Zebra labels knows the moment: the label looks right in the code, then prints shifted, rotated, cut off.
September 14, 2026
Printer Setup and Reset from an Android Phone - Over a USB Cable
A printer in a bad state is a physical problem: garbage on the display, a darkness setting somebody moved, a Wi-Fi config that points at last year's SSID.
September 14, 2026
Connect a Local MongoDB as a Label Datasource with the zplCloud CLI
Product data, order items, serial numbers - if it already lives in MongoDB, exporting it to CSV so a label can print it is pure overhead.
September 14, 2026
Connect a Local SQL Server as a Label Datasource with the zplCloud CLI
Label data lives in an ERP, a WMS or an Azure SQL database. The usual workflow is export to CSV, fix the column names, upload, print.
September 13, 2026
zplCloud.com is live!
Today we switched zplcloud.com on for everyone. It is a label printing platform for Zebra printers and other ZPL-capable devices.