Printing Receipts on POS Printer-Epson

[shahiq]

I have an access POS application which prints receipt on a receipt printer. I do not have a specified length of the receipt as sales vary in the quantity of items . Does anyone know how I can code it so that the last text is the end of the report and the paper is cut off right there? And also the printer is connected to Parallel port so i want these print commands to go to this particular port...

I wonder whether this could be done with printer driver installed.......... If so how the page length of receipt template has to be set. the width is ofcourse limited to 3 inches but as I told u guys length is unkown.....and dont think stillwe can resolve printing to specific printer issue(having driver nstalled).

thanks

 

[neileg]

Presumably there's a command to tell the printer to end the receipt. Put this in the report footer.

 

[shahiq]

Presumably there's a command to tell the printer to end the receipt. Put this in the report footer.

wonder what kinda command that would be..........

 

[neileg]

I would expect it to be in the printer documentation. It's not an Access function!

 

[Dennisk]

Older printers ie Dot matrix printers had a set of instructions called escape sequences as you sent <ESC> & other characters to control the printer. I commonly used it to set paper lenth to A4. As Neileg says get hold of the manual. Although you may have to send the escape sequence through a DOS batchfile.