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Using GS* for the Epson Receipt Printers
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15/03/2010 21:05:11
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Pictures and Image processing
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01454566
Message ID:
01454737
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38
>>Hey Gang!
>>
>>Anyone have any experience programming for the Epson line of Receipt Printers that use the Graphics Command GS * and GS / ??
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>>This is for the TMH6000II printer.
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>>What the GS * command does is put a Graphic into the printers memory, and GS / prints it.
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>>What I don't understand is how the graphic is laid out in memory according to the instructions.....
>>
>>Anyone got any examples or code that does it?
>
>If you have an example of anything that prints it (as simple as possible), print it into a file, then look into that file with a good magnifying hex editor. Also, last time I had to muck with that kind of stuff, Epson had good manuals on their website, of the kind which described the byte sequences for each printer (or printer protocol).
>
>It's quite possible that your printer may be using a vertical layout - one bit per needle, vertically, plus one extra byte for the 9th needle... which is very cumbersome if so. I'm just lucky I didn't have to do anything much - just redefined a few characters so the little Star receipt printer would have šđžčć and ŠĐŽČĆ, no logotypes, thanks. And that was long ago, thanks for bringing up weird memories :).
>
>So... epson dot com is your best bet.

Yeah, been to https://www.epsonexpert.com/login.htm to get the documentation.

Some really WEIRD graphical stuff.... and they don't make anything easy at all. Sheeeesssshhhhh!!!

Thanks!!!
Tommy Tillman A+ NetWork+ MCP
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