POS Printers

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Anyone know anything about setting up areceipt printer with Access?
Does ESC/POS ring any bells? Im getting desperate here !!!
Thanks
DS
 
Hi,

I saw your earlier post about the Epson Tm-T88II receipt printer. We use the same printer for our
POS systems. We use a third party POS program that stores all the information in Jet/Access data
tables. I have worked with the system for many years, but do not have much experience with the
programming part of the printer so I doubt I can help much. I can tell you that it is possible to
have the printer cut the paper at the end of the receipt instead of a fixed length (per your
previous post) since that is how our printers work. I'm not sure if this will help much, but see if
this link can offer some guidance:

http://www.apipos.com/tmt88.doc

You might also pour through any printer manual material that may have come with the printer.
Good luck,
 
DS said:
Anyone know anything about setting up areceipt printer with Access?
Does ESC/POS ring any bells? Im getting desperate here !!!
Thanks
DS
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Does the printer have a Windows driver?
If not the basic text printer probably will work but you will loose any
fancy text formatting.
ESC usually refers to ESCape characters used to control older dot matrix
printers.

These characters are hard to embed in a standard Access report but you can
send them before printing to set some options.

You might also find that the cost of printing an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper
on a laser a lot cheaper than what special receipt printers and paper cost.
 
Mike said:
Does the printer have a Windows driver?
If not the basic text printer probably will work but you will loose any
fancy text formatting.
ESC usually refers to ESCape characters used to control older dot matrix
printers.

These characters are hard to embed in a standard Access report but you can
send them before printing to set some options.

You might also find that the cost of printing an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper
on a laser a lot cheaper than what special receipt printers and paper cost.
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Thanks.

I've been doing a bit more research and what I need to use is a program
with OPOS and code it in VB? A little confusing at this poit but I'm
getting deeper into it as the hours progress. Any help appreciated.
Thanks
DS
 
Jeff said:
Hi,

I saw your earlier post about the Epson Tm-T88II receipt printer. We use the same printer for our
POS systems. We use a third party POS program that stores all the information in Jet/Access data
tables. I have worked with the system for many years, but do not have much experience with the
programming part of the printer so I doubt I can help much. I can tell you that it is possible to
have the printer cut the paper at the end of the receipt instead of a fixed length (per your
previous post) since that is how our printers work. I'm not sure if this will help much, but see if
this link can offer some guidance:

http://www.apipos.com/tmt88.doc

You might also pour through any printer manual material that may have come with the printer.
Good luck,
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Thanks,
I'll check it out. Do you know anything about OPOS?
DS
 
DS said:
I'll check it out. Do you know anything about OPOS?
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No, I'm afraid I do not.
I do not have much experience on the programming side of things for the thermal printer.
 
Jeff said:
No, I'm afraid I do not.
I do not have much experience on the programming side of things for the thermal printer.
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Thanks Jeff,
I found an OPOS download page and I now have the program to register the
Printer, Cash Drawer, etc. in OPOS. Next I have to write some kind of
code in VB to access te printer. This seems to be the way to go in the
POS field. In any case if your interested I'll keep you updated. In
the mean time if any one knows anything please feel free to jump in.
Thanks
DS
 
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