title: Emulate Zebra Printer for Zebra Browser Print
body: <p>I am building an app that uses <a href="https://www.zebra.com/us/en/products/software/barcode-printers/link-os/browser-print.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Zebra's Browser Print SDK</a> to print barcode labels via the browser. Currently, I don't have access to a compatible Zebra printer, on the machine that I am developing this app on.</p>
  
  <p>Can you think of a way to emulate a Zebra printer in such a way that the Browser Print SDK picks it up, so I can pretend to print from a browser?</p>
  
  <p>What I tried so far:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I installed different Zebra Printer Drivers that were said to be compatible. The Browser Print SDK doesn't pick up these installed printers though.</li>
  <li>Looked into  using Chrome and the extension <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zpl-printer/phoidlklenidapnijkabnfdgmadlcmjo/support?hl=en-US" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ZPL Printer</a></li>
  <li>Set up a generic/text printer per <a href="https://km.zebra.com/kb/index?page=content&amp;id=WH70&amp;actp=LIST" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Zebra's instructions</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Neither option populated the list in Zebra's Browser Print window of available printers. Is the only way of getting a printer to show up, to buy a Browser Print compatible Zebra printer and hook it up to my workstation?</p>