Receipt Printing
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I am building an application that is supposed to eventually print out a receipt. Someone told me that i can get an E-POS receipt printer. Is it possible to interface it with a computer, that is, is there any DLL that i can use to send the printing jobs to an E-POS printer. I am programing using C Sharp (Of course).
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I am building an application that is supposed to eventually print out a receipt. Someone told me that i can get an E-POS receipt printer. Is it possible to interface it with a computer, that is, is there any DLL that i can use to send the printing jobs to an E-POS printer. I am programing using C Sharp (Of course).
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If the printer comes with Windows printer driver, you basically just have to set the page size and print to the document. Older printers let you print to them like STDOUT so you'd just issue WriteLines which is easy enough to do. Some printers accept a raw data format for printing, in which case you can check out this Microsoft KB[^]. Also, check with the EPOS supplier and see if they have an SDK. You may be best to research a couple of leading ones or a standard format and then give you end user a set of choices, failing back to one of the methods above. Edit: just remembered the Microsoft POS framework[^]. It seemed pretty good when I last looked into it. Cheers.
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I am building an application that is supposed to eventually print out a receipt. Someone told me that i can get an E-POS receipt printer. Is it possible to interface it with a computer, that is, is there any DLL that i can use to send the printing jobs to an E-POS printer. I am programing using C Sharp (Of course).
Wamuti: Any man can be an island, but islands to need water around them! Edmund Burke: No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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I am building an application that is supposed to eventually print out a receipt. Someone told me that i can get an E-POS receipt printer. Is it possible to interface it with a computer, that is, is there any DLL that i can use to send the printing jobs to an E-POS printer. I am programing using C Sharp (Of course).
Wamuti: Any man can be an island, but islands to need water around them! Edmund Burke: No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
I'm not sure about "E-POS", is that something based on the Unified POS standard? UPOS is an architecture for communicating with retail point of sale devices. The manufacturer of a UPOS-enabled receipt printer supplies a "service object" dll. Your code would use "POS for .NET" to talk to the receipt printer. See: Microsoft POS for .NET Overview[^] National Retail Federation, Unified POS[^]