Questions tagged [thermal-printer]

A printer in which fine heated pins form characters on heat-sensitive paper

A thermal printer or electrothermal printer is a printer that uses heated pins to "burn" images onto heat-sensitive paper

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How to print from the Thermal Printer in Android?

I am working on an application for an Android device that will have a built in line printer. I have to interact with this printer and use it to print the details on receipt and then with cutter cut that receipt automatically. I have seen some ESC…
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How print invoice receipt using bluetooth thermal printer

I have to print invoice receipt using thermal printer. I have used Zjiang Thermal printer to print receipt. They also provide there manual & demo project. In demo project they use a libray "btsdk.jar" to implement connection & print. I have…
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Print bitmap full page width in thermal dot printer using ESC/POS in java

I'm trying to print an image of 576 pixels width in a thermal printer that supports ESC commands, the problem is that the command "ESC *" for printing image bits only let me print images of 255 pixels width (if i use a 576 pixels image some parts…
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How to send data to bluetooth printer via android app?

I am developing an app which will send data to a printer via bluetooth to print (A thermal printer for receipts). I have followed the code which in this link. http://pastie.org/6203514 and this link also http://pastie.org/6203516 I am able to see…
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Billing aliens via POS printer and image print

I am trying to create a prototype to print bitmap data for a text file to my LAN enabled epson pos printer TM-T88V. While I have no problems to send text and text formatting instructions, I dont understand, what I have to do, to make my printer…
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Converting a bitmap to monochrome

I am trying to save an image as monochrome (black&white, 1 bit-depth) but I'm coming up lost how to do it. I am starting with a png and converting to a bitmap for printing (it's a thermal printer and only supports black anyway - plus its slow as…
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Conversion between EPL and ZPL

Is it possible to convert EPL and ZPL (thermal printer languages) to common format (it could be vector grapic file like SVG)? It will be great if I could convert from commont format to ZPL or EPL.
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Cloud Print and thermal printers

I am using Google Cloud Print for print generated PDF documents in a web app. All was working fine in all printer types that i use (HP, Zebra, etc) but about 2 weeks ago all Zebra printers (thermal printers) are printing PDF documents in portrait…
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How to print a receipt through Receipt Printer from Web Page(.aspx)?

Added IFrame on web page & given source as text file.It is working fine on Common printer.But,unable to print receipt through Receipt printer.It is coming as blank paper. Printer name : PR-85 Thermal printer .Click below link to see printer…
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Print barcode using thermal printer Android

I was able to print text but when it comes to barcode it not showing or just showing irregular text. Here is my source code //barcode 128 byte[] formats = {(byte) 0x1d, (byte) 0x6b, (byte) 0x73,(byte) 0x0d}; byte[]…
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How to send ESC/POS commands to thermal printer in Linux

I am trying to send ESC/POS commands on a thermal printer. But whenever i send them thermal printer prints them as a text instead of executing them as commands. I am writing these commands in a .prn file and whenever i executes lp command to print a…
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iOS Bluetooth thermal receipt printers, which to support?

I'm developing a POS application and would like to support some Bluetooth printers to print receipts. These will usually be thermal printers. Googling for Bluetooth printers that work with iOS gave me a couple of models, but its difficult to…
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How use thermal printer(USB/Ethernet) on android, without using vendor SDK,?

I already implemented EPSON SDK(for Bluetooth) and working fine, but not Working on other printers, is there is any general way to accomplish it. what is ESC command, How it works?,
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Epson thermal printer JavaScript

I'm trying to use an Epson TM-T20II (thermal printer) via a web page. I've done the necessary configuration and the printer works fine on my network using the given software. So I downloaded the JS epos print SDK, and tried to run this sample code…
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Sending data to thermal printer from Android device via usb

I am working with sending data to a thermal printer from my application. I already have it working correctly over the network and my data prints correctly. There is now an additional requirement whereby we also have to be able to print via…
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