Using Thermal Printer have to Print a bill?

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Hi friends i am new to C# windows application. I need a help regarding bill printing using Thermal Printer with multiple communication port like:

USB
Parallel Port (Centronics)
Serial Port (RS-232)
IP Ethernet Network

Data entry person will enter the bill no, item, and quantity when they press save button print should be done without asking any dialog box. Output must be in this format.

COMPANY NAME
ADDRESS,
PHONE NUMBER.

BILL NO:
WAITER:

DATE/TIME
AC/NON AC

PARTICULARS	RATE	QTY	AMOUNT
Item name	100	1	110.00
	PERSONS: 1	SUBTOTAL:	110.00

Give me your valuable suggestions.
Thanks.

Posted 21-Mar-13 19:27pm

vasanth_ami

Updated 21-Mar-13 20:09pm

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Prasad Khandekar · Answer 1 · 2013-03-22T00:20:00

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Hello Vasanth,

I havn't done this for a long time, but I can definitely suggest you few links which will help you in accomplishing this. Please have a look at this[^] page. This company offers the necessary SDK. Similarly have a look at this[^] site which actually offers a thermal printer. They also have a manula of printer commands that needs to get sent to print something. Each printer may have slightly different command set. So using direct printing means developing little printer specific code. You can also find a nice library[^] here on CP, though it's developed using Compact Framework.

Regards,

Posted 22-Mar-13 0:20am

Prasad Khandekar

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vasanth_ami 22-Mar-13 8:12am

Hello Mr. Prasad,

Thanks for your quick and valuable reply. Sure I will try this and reply you.

Regards,
Vasanth.

vasanth_ami 23-Mar-13 1:05am

Hello Mr. Prasad Khandekar,

I am still confused and not able to find the solution. Where to start and how to implement it? Can u tell me the step by step process if possible otherwise if u have any sample code can u provide me.

Thanks.

Regards,
Vasanth.

Prasad Khandekar 23-Mar-13 3:21am

Have you tried the SDK link. May be you can try downloading that SDK and run one of the example. It will get you started.

vasanth_ami 23-Mar-13 2:31am

Hello Mr. Prasad Khandekar,

Client using this two type of Printers.

1. http://www.tvs-e.in/pos/home-rp3160.asp
2. https://pos.epson.com/products/tm-t88iv.htm

How i can proceed further what i have to do next to start this process?

Thanks.

Regards,
Vasanth

Prasad Khandekar 23-Mar-13 3:33am

Hello Vasanth, Please try this KB article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322091) You will need to install your printer drivers first.

vasanth_ami 23-Mar-13 4:14am

Hello Prasad, I have tried above link coding. Raw Data is printed but my question is how to arrange the print code format like below one:

COMPANY NAME
ADDRESS,
PHONE NUMBER.

BILL NO: DATE/TIME
WAITER: AC/NON AC
=========================================================================
PARTICULARS RATE QTY AMOUNT
=========================================================================
Item name 100 1 110.00
=========================================================================

PERSONS: 1 SUBTOTAL: 110.00
=================================================

How i can pass this formatted string to print?

Thanks.

Regards,
Vasanth.

Prasad Khandekar 23-Mar-13 4:42am

You will have to this formatting manually. For example. to output first line at the center output (PrintWidth - "COMPANY NAME".Length())/2 spaces and then output COMPANY NAME. You can use a StringBuilder to create the entire string and finally print it.

Regards,