USB Printing

[serge_girard]

Hello,

Does anybody know how to print directly to a POS USB printer? I now have an old paraller POS printer which prints immdetialy after:

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SET DEVICE  TO PRINTER
SET PRINTER ON
SET CONSOLE OFF
? 'lines'
SET PRINTER OFF
SET PRINTER TO
SET DEVICE  TO SCREEN
SET CONSOLE ON

Thanks, Serge

[quartz565]

Check out this:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4131

[serge_girard]

Thx Nikos, I will have a look at it!

[mol]

Hi Serge.
Do you connect this printer via USB-Centronics adapter?
You can set your printer as shared, then you can map it to lpt

eg.
net use lpt1 \\comp_name\shared_printer_name

After that, you can use your commands as you described

[franco]

Serge, I have printed to usb or network printers for many years.
To do so I always made a batch file to start my exe program. This way you can print to local or printers on the network.
You install the windows printer. then share it, I use a simple share name .. like star1. This is easier to set up.
If you are not printing to a local printer the computer you are printing to should be on same workgroup.
If you are printing local, you need your computer name and printer share name.
Here is eg: of batch file
myprogram.bat
echo off
cls
net use lpt1: \\mycomputername\star1 //set printer to lpt1 You can set any port.
myprogram.exe // prints to port instead of printer. Then all print commands can go to lpt1: not images text only.
net use lpt1: /delete // I always shut of link after program
//end batch file

At start of print procedures say set device to printer then
set printer to lpt1

then all print commands @ line,col say commands go to printer
I usually print some blank lines at end of print to set start of next printout
at end say set device to screen.
I hope this is what you where looking for.
Franco

[serge_girard]

Thanks Franco, Marek and Nikos!

I think use net use in my start-batch file will be best solution: no changes in my programs!

I will try as soon as I have the printer.

Thanks again,

Serge

[serge_girard]

Franco, Marek,

When using NETUSE.. I must share the printer with a short name (which I did). Is it also necessary to change port from USB001 to LPT1?

Serge

[mol]

No,printer pirt should be usb.
Network mapping does the job.
Which windows version do you have?

[serge_girard]

W10-32 + W10-64 + W7-32
Printer has not yet arrived so I can not start testing. I let you know, thanks Marek!

Serge

[mol]

Ok