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Cash Drawer

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:36 pm
by Guest
Has anyone successfully mapped the LPT1 port to a COM port and used a Serial Printer? The reason for doing this is that I have a Serial Citizen POS printer and a CBM Cash drawer (connected to the printer via RJ11 type cable), and need to fire the drawer and cut the paper. I have used APRINT.EXE with both the Citizen driver (no place to enter kick codes) which cuts the paper fine but does not fire the drawer, and I have used the generic windows drivers which (with the appropriate codes) will fire the drawer and cut the paper, however it prints a large amount of excess paper on every transaction.

It was suggested to me to re-direct the LPT1 port by running the following Batch file and point the POS to print to LPT1:

mode com1 baud=9600 data=8 parity=n stop=1
mode lpt1=com1

This re-directs the printing, but only prints gibberish (when I print a test receipt) and still does not fire the drawer or the cutter (i have entered the correct codes as well).

Does anyone know if this is even possible?