will look wrongPQ-01state

Serial numbers print as identical duplicates

This format prints 50 copies of an identical label. If they were meant to carry serial numbers, ^SN is missing.

Add ^SN for serialised output, or reduce ^PQ to 1.

A label that trips it
^XA^PQ50^FO50,50^A0N,30,30^FDBOX^FS^XZ
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What the check looks for

^PQ with quantity greater than 1 and no ^SN anywhere in the format.

What Labelproof says about it2 findings · PQ-01 highlighted
will failLY-02^XA · offset 0 · label 1

Neither ^PW nor ^LL is set. Both fall back to a value stored in the individual printer, not to a value in the spec — so the same ZPL prints differently on two printers of the same model.

Set ^PW and ^LL explicitly in every format.

the rule on this page
will look wrongPQ-01^PQ · offset 0 · label 1

This format prints 50 copies of an identical label. If they were meant to carry serial numbers, ^SN is missing.

Add ^SN for serialised output, or reduce ^PQ to 1.

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