• Ticket printer

    From CENTRINO@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 24 12:39:04 2018
    Hi

    I'd like to know if an Epson Tikets printer with Ethernet is
    controllable from IBM I system.

    The printer is an EPSON model TM-T20II
    The printer data current is ESC/POS

    If so, What should be the CRTDEVPRT command to issue ?

    I have tried with:

    CRTDEVPRT DEVD(IMTK02) DEVCLS(*LAN) TYPE(3812) MODEL(1) +
    LANATTACH(*IP) PORT(9100) ATTACH(*DIRECT) ONLINE(*YES) +
    FONT(11 *NONE) FORMFEED(*CONT) SEPDRAWER(*FILE) +
    PRTERRMSG(*INFO) MSGQ(*CTLD) ACTTMR(170) INACTTMR(*SEC15) +
    LINESPEED(19200) WORDLEN(8) PARITY(*NONE) STOPBITS(1) +
    TRANSFORM(*YES) MFRTYPMDL(*WSCST) PPRSRC1(*CONT80) +
    PPRSRC2(*NONE) ENVELOPE(*NONE) ASCII899(*NO) +
    IMGCFG(*NONE) CHRID(*SYSVAL) RMTLOCNAME('XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX') +
    WSCST(*LIBL/QWPDEFAULT) SYSDRVPGM(*IBMSNMPDRV) +
    TEXT(' Tikets Nº 2') +
    PUBLISHINF(*UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *BLANK +
    (*UNKNOWN))

    I can print but the printer does not cut the ticket at the end of file
    nor does recognise any character size changes ...

    Thanks in advance.

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  • From Jonathan Bailey@21:1/5 to CENTRINO on Wed Sep 26 05:07:50 2018
    Maybe you can do something with a WSCST?
    You would need to know what special hex sequences are sent to the printer for the size codes and cut. Unfortunately I dont know anything much about these things except I never had a lot of luck. You might get lucky & find one which just works, otherwise
    you will be reduced to cut & paste from examples or even reading the manual :(

    HTH
    Jonathan.


    On Monday, 24 September 2018 12:39:08 UTC+1, CENTRINO wrote:
    Hi

    I'd like to know if an Epson Tikets printer with Ethernet is
    controllable from IBM I system.

    The printer is an EPSON model TM-T20II
    The printer data current is ESC/POS

    If so, What should be the CRTDEVPRT command to issue ?

    I have tried with:

    CRTDEVPRT DEVD(IMTK02) DEVCLS(*LAN) TYPE(3812) MODEL(1) +
    LANATTACH(*IP) PORT(9100) ATTACH(*DIRECT) ONLINE(*YES) +
    FONT(11 *NONE) FORMFEED(*CONT) SEPDRAWER(*FILE) +
    PRTERRMSG(*INFO) MSGQ(*CTLD) ACTTMR(170) INACTTMR(*SEC15) +
    LINESPEED(19200) WORDLEN(8) PARITY(*NONE) STOPBITS(1) +
    TRANSFORM(*YES) MFRTYPMDL(*WSCST) PPRSRC1(*CONT80) +
    PPRSRC2(*NONE) ENVELOPE(*NONE) ASCII899(*NO) +
    IMGCFG(*NONE) CHRID(*SYSVAL) RMTLOCNAME('XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX') +
    WSCST(*LIBL/QWPDEFAULT) SYSDRVPGM(*IBMSNMPDRV) +
    TEXT(' Tikets Nº 2') +
    PUBLISHINF(*UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *BLANK +
    (*UNKNOWN))

    I can print but the printer does not cut the ticket at the end of file
    nor does recognise any character size changes ...

    Thanks in advance.

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