another problem

Reed · Post by **Reed** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:24 pm

Ok, so, I'm waiting for my Epson reciept printer to come on Monday. For now, I'm using an Eltron 2844 thermal label printer (parallel). Two problems:

1. I can't get the prtiner to print directly from DOS...I have to use APRINT

2. When I do get the printer to work with APRINT, there is a square printed at the end of every line.

Does anyone have the answers?

Dale Harris · Post by **Dale Harris** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:37 pm

In the "Printer setup" feature to you have "Forced line feed" set to "NO"?

Are you using APRINT.EXE or APRINT2.EXE ?

Reed · Post by **Reed** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:46 pm

Ahhh, yes, that did it.....still can't get it to run w/o APRINT2, though

Dale Harris · Post by **Dale Harris** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:19 pm

In the "Printer setup feature of the POSCONFG.EXE program you have to set the port to LPT1: to print to the parallel printer port.

However I have to admit that I know nothing about the printer that you are using and it may in fact require that you use APRINT

Reed · Post by **Reed** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:05 am

posconfig is indeed set to LTP1....but now that I think about it, it doesn't suprise me that it doesn't support line printing from DOS, as it is a barcode label printer.

Thanks for the info!

DHES

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Forced line feed

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