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Printing to POS customer display
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11/09/2006 03:10:34
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 6
OS:
Windows 2000
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01152633
Message ID:
01152707
Views:
16
>Hi,
>
>I try to print directly to a (Escape sequence enabled) customer display connected to the COM-port on my computer, but everytime I try this:
>
>SET PRINT TO COM1
>SET DEVI TO PRINT
>@ 1,1 SAY CHR(12)
>
>the printout goes to my printer on the USB-port.
>
>What am I doing wrong here?
>
>PS: The display does not come with a printer driver.

In a system we sell, we also send the data directly to the POS printers, including the escape codes. We do it by first creating a text file, and the copying the file to the printer. This way we bypass the printer driver, and it works without any problems.
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