ZPL to CPCL

Paste ZPL and get a CPCL job for Zebra mobile printers (ZQ, QLn, RW) and other CPCL printers. The label is sent as CG graphic bands - blank rows cost nothing - as hex text or as a compressed PCX.

Automate this tool via the API: POST /v1/tools/zpl-to-cpcl API docs

ZPL code

Printer resolution

Width (optional)

Height (optional)

Unit

Compress image data (PCX (RLE)) Image data as hex text instead of binary

Send it to the printer

The file is a finished job: send it unchanged to TCP port 9100 of the printer - no driver needed. Replace the IP address with your printer's.

Linux / macOS

nc -q 1 192.168.1.50 9100 < label.cpcl

Windows PowerShell

$c = [Net.Sockets.TcpClient]::new('192.168.1.50', 9100)
$b = [IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("$PWD\label.cpcl")
$c.GetStream().Write($b, 0, $b.Length); $c.Close()

With the zplCloud CLI the job goes out byte-exact over TCP or USB, through a watch folder or through the agent to a printer in another network - the CLI can also convert ZPL itself with --language.

zplCloud CLI

zplcloud send --target 192.168.1.50 --file label.cpcl
zplcloud send --usb --file label.cpcl
zplcloud send --remote-printer 4 --file label.zpl --language cpcl

Preview appears here after conversion