>>I was wondering if anybody could tell me the best thing to do when printing to receipt printers. Right now it takes a long time for the receipt to print because it goes over each line many times?
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>>Thanks,
>>Paul
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>Receipt printers that meet industry standards use an ActiveX control to send data to the printer. I downloaded this free control from the Epson POS website. You should find out if the manufacturer of your receipt printers has a control you can use.
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>I, too, tried to control our receipt printers strictly with VFP and various printer drivers and fonts. Nothing was acceptable until I used the control. I spent about 2 days total completing this part of the app including developing a subclass for the control.


Mark

Could I have the address to the site where the ActiveX is located??

I checked http://pos.epson.com/ and did a search but found no such control.

Please steer me in the right direction.

Have Star POS printers one of these OCX's as well??

Bernard