Developer tools are available for the Smart Label Printer®.

Tools

We offer the Smart Label Printer Software Developer's Toolkit (SDK) at no charge for qualified software developers. The SLP SDK includes interface specifications and coding for Seiko Instruments USA Inc.'s Smart Label Printers. The SLP SDK is provided AS IS, with no technical support.

To obtain a copy of the developer kit, you can either download it or have a SDK shipped to you. To have one shipped (with a fee of $9.95 to cover shipping and handling), call 1-800-688-0817 and order the SLP-DEVKIT. Outside North America, call 1-716-871-6711 or fax 1-716-447-7315.

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Developer Support

The SLP SDK is provided AS IS, and no technical support is available.

Tips

Printing

Easiest way to Print to the SLP

If you are developing applications to run under Windows, the easiest way to print to the Smart Label Printer is to utilize the SLP Windows Printer Driver. This requires no special programming or use of the SLP SDK. The SLP is a bitmapped graphics printer. It is not an ASCII printer and therefore, does not use escape code sequences to control the printer. The Smart Label Printers expect information to be in the form of a graphics bitmap. This allows the printer to print almost anything, graphics or text. To print text, you must raster the font to the correct resolution of the printer.

Special notes for SLP EZ30 and SLP Plus

The SLP EZ30 and SLP Plus utilize rectangular pixels, not square. This can make programming for these printers more of a challenge. You may consider writing your custom application for the SLP 100, 200 and 220, which use square pixels (as well as offer higher resolution and speed!).