Receipt Printer

[William]

Hello
I am finishing a POS app. I am using a Star sp200
receipt ptint (not default printer). Has anyone ever
written to a printer like this. I know that I've written
to a Parallel port printer before(default printer). I
just can't remember how I did it (Age Problem)?

Any help (sample code) would be very COOL!

Thank's
William

[Jason B]

Hi,
Hows ya Point of Sale program? Wanted to ask if you know how to print an image to a receipt printer without performing a page feed afterwards? Can i check out your POS System?

[Jim Brown]

William,

You probably want the printer object, and you'll have to set it to be the Star by looping thru all printers till it finds the right one. Assuming the Star is installed in Windows, and is called 'Star', here's how you set it:

Dim aPrinter As Printer
For Each aPrinter In Printers
  Debug.Print aPrinter.DeviceName
  If aPrinter.DeviceName = "Star" Then
    Debug.Print "Found it!"
    Set Printer = aPrinter
    Exit For
  End If
Next

[honeybee]

And if it's serially connected, be sure to include the MSComm control in your form.

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