>>The control has to be provided by the manufacturer. I put together a solution
>>once where the manufacturer of the Cash Drawer and the Printer (Epson, I
>>think?) supplied appropriate OCXs. Worked quite well, actually....
>Interesting. I ordered and received a printer from Epson. It came with nothing
>but cables, paper, ribbon cartridge and an installation manual for hooking it
>up. I got the Win95 printer drivers from the web. I'll have to follow up to
>see what else they have to offer.

Such as http://pos.epson.com/pointofsale/opos.shtml, you mean? :-)