Help with Zebra LP2844 Not Printing

[brantholt]

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this but I'm having trouble getting my Zebra LP2844 printer to actually print. I'm a little rusty using a command line so this is possibly why I'm having trouble, any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm using macOS 15.1.1 and all I've done so far was download and install lprint-1.3.1-macos.pkg. I've successfully found and added my printer with the zpl_4inch-203dpi-dt driver, and setup a few default options. When I go to submit my file for printing it will add it to the queue but my printer won't respond. When I list all queued jobs it shows them all, but the first one is stuck on "processing" while the remaining jobs are "pending". I've waited several minutes to see if the first job would ever finish processing but it doesn't. Am I missing a step in the installation process or maybe in the print/command line process? Am I using the right driver? Do I need to enable the experimental drivers to use the LP2844? Also I see there are prerequisite libraries needed in order to use LPrint, does the macOS installer .pkg from GitHub automatically include those libraries when installing or do I have to build those separately? Thank you!

[jonathan-sturges]

The LP2844 is an EPL printer, not ZPL. I would try the 'epl2_4inch-203dpi-dt' driver instead. Also, make sure you use the correct device URI shown in 'lprint devices' output.