Hi Neil, thanks for your reply.

Then it is just a matter of sending the Control sequence to that printer.
Exactly how to do this seems to be the problem. To get raw control characyers out, O was using ??? Chr(xxx) etc but this always seemd to go to the directly attached printer , rather then the network shared printer. The Report prints ok to the correct printer but I cant get the control characters out to the correct printer

Regards,
Gerard





>Hi,
>It is usually done by setting up a Generic/Text printer attached to COMx, depending on what port you are using.
>Then it is just a matter of sending the Control sequence to that printer.
>If you are trying to open a cash draw on another workstation just setup a share and attach to it from the other workstation.
>
>>Hi.
>>I am printing to a Till receipt printer with a Cash Drawer attached, from a few networked pc's.
>>(The Till drawer opens by sending Control Cahracters to the Printer)
>>I am using Set Printer to Name (MyName) which is working fine.
>>To open the drawer. I am using ??? plus some print control characters, which work fine on the Local PC, but not on the networked pc's.
>>
>>Does anybody know if ??? goes to the Printer that is Set, or bypasses all this and just goes to a local PC ?, or is there another way of sending the Control Caharacters to the till via the printer
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>Gerard