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Printing Ascii Characters

Printing Ascii Characters

Printing Ascii Characters

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I need to open a Posiflex Cash drawer by sending Ascii Character <07> to the POS printer to which it is connected.
How do I send Ascii Characters to an LPT port?

Thanx

RE: Printing Ascii Characters

Hi

I Recommend 2 ya to Write a TextFile the Code, and use the
DOS Command "PRINT LPT1 C:\Open.txt" ;)

If you want something more enlightment:

Just Go and analyze the LinePrint Template (FREE), there is some API's That are Called for writing in LPT ports.

There are Also a Plenty of Funtions in API that does what you're intending:

OpenPrinter
WritePrinter
ClosePrinter

The Recommended for 32bit app is using:
CreateFile
 

The CreateFile function creates or opens the following objects and returns a handle that can be used to access the object:

·    files
·    pipes
·    mailslots
·    communications resources
·    disk devices (Windows NT only)
·    consoles
·    directories (open only)

 

HANDLE CreateFile(

    LPCTSTR lpFileName,    // pointer to name of the file
    DWORD dwDesiredAccess,    // access (read-write) mode
    DWORD dwShareMode,    // share mode
    LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes,    // pointer to security attributes
    DWORD dwCreationDistribution,    // how to create
    DWORD dwFlagsAndAttributes,    // file attributes
    HANDLE hTemplateFile     // handle to file with attributes to copy  
   );    
 


Best Regards

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