53/365: Labellous

I spent the better part of a day coaxing a well-abused Zebra 96xiIII label printer to print an acceptable (both human and machine-readable) label for one of my employer's products. These are just some of the (many) failures..

In the end I generated the label from scratch using Z/PL, generated programically by a Perl (yay!) script. I also managed to find (and reprogram) a handheld scanner capable of reading the tiny QR codes, so they can be integrated into the production workflow. (The labels are less than 8mm square!)

...I sure seem to be doing a lot of printer hacking these days.

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