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Getting ready to start a cash receipt. I only found one post from a long time ago regarding paper reels.

Is there any update on recommendations for doing this?

1) I would set the paper width and then just want my report to flow as long as needed and treat that as a single page
2) How would I issue the command to the printer to get it to cut the paper?
3) Optionally, there are also some cash receipt printers integrated with cash drawers and there was a "ring the bell" type control code sent to the printer that would also cause it to open the cash drawer. Is there a way to include sending control codes to the printer?

Hello.

Sorry, but if you use Stimulsoft Reports.Web product, it's impossible to do all of these.
Browsers don't allow to use additional code. For instance, Google Chrome convert the page to PDF before printing.
We have Dot-Matrix mode in the Stimulsoft Reports.Net product. But it works in WinForms applications only.

Thank you.

Sorry, while we did purchase the web edition, our printing will be triggered from the backend asp.net server code or other winform based code. We bought the web edition since most reports the users run they will preview and look at through a web interface. However we do have a lot of background reports that the user does not interact with directly like when printing an invoice or a cash receipt and these will be run from asp.net server code, other winform code, or even a win service. I currently can send the invoice to the printer from the C# asp.net server code. That's how I would trigger the cash receipt.

Do I have to buy another edition to be able just to print these cash receipts?

Hello.

You don't need to buy an additional product to print from server-side.
Please, read the Dot-Matrix and Escape Codes section of the Stimusoft Programming Manual.

But if you need to embed the Dot-Matrix Viewer in your WinForms application you should look at the Stimulsoft Reports.Net product.

Thank you.