>Good point.
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>This is what I figured.
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>What has your client's reaction been when you "dictate" which hardware you will support?

Since they had no hardware to begin with, they did not care. The price of the TM88-II printers are reasonable and competitive with most of what is available. Then when they looked at the price of a roll of receipt paper [about $3] versus a box of printer paper [$25 to $40], they figured the price difference between a receipt printer [$400] and a regular printer [$250] payed for itself after about 7 or 8 boxes of regular printer paper.

The biggest selling point is the print speed. A receipt printer spit out a receipt in about 3 seconds. A regular printer took at least 30 seconds per page. A laser printer about 10 to 15 seconds per page.

>>You really need to set [dictate] a standard of what you will support. Even within different Epson receipt printers there >are differences. If you do not, you will have to create code for each different brand and model as well as test the >printed output of each printer.
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>>I had a customer use a slightly different Epson printer, and it did not work well at all. The output was hideous >[formatting, spacing, etc]. Receipt printers are not like printers where you can just create a report form and have it >work on all printers.