Can anyone give me some advice on how to send data to a POS Printer using POS for .NET .
I'm using the POS Simulator as I don't have any hardware but none of the ESC| sequences for text manipulation seem to be working. I can get the line feeds ESC|#lF to work but not for example setting the text to be right aligned.
Is this a problem with the MS POS Simulator?
I'm guessing this may also be because the simulator doesn't seem to have a width set for the POS Printer. How do I set this in the simulator?
Can anyone give me some advice on how to send data to a POS Printer using POS for .NET .
I'm using the POS Simulator as I don't have any hardware but none of the ESC| sequences for text manipulation seem to be working. I can get the line feeds ESC|#lF to work but not for example setting the text to be right aligned.
Is this a problem with the MS POS Simulator?
I'm guessing this may also be because the simulator doesn't seem to have a width set for the POS Printer. How do I set this in the simulator?
Been there - done all that. It's a pretty sparse world out there for the POS for .Net developers I can assure you.
I bet there's a few who lurk in this newsgroup would know what I was talking about - and it is a related issue - at least in my opinion be it ever so humble :-).
Thank you very much for this response as without any hardware I am unable to isolate a problem let alone where to look.
Yes - It does seem to be a simulator issue as I went forward and created my project and the ESC sequences are in fact being processed (or at least ignored by the simulator which in fact amounts to the same thing).
The POS Simulator does not show centered text, underline or other format type ESC squences however after some thought, this is probably the "correct" action on it's part. Took me some time to remember that the print output and screen output are two different items and what I was expecting to see on screen was in fact a "print preview" window. That is probably outside the scope of the simulator.
For the record - there is no documentation that I can find that refers to the simulator software - its use, limitations etc. Even a brief reminder to the above woud have saved me many hours of grief!
Neverheless, without the simulator software I couldn't even get this far!
Your resp> I think it's the POS simulator issue, it works fine on my physical device, I
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