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Hello!

I was wondering, if Reports.Net can be used to create reports for receipt printers (thermal dot matrix printer with endless paper, 80mm wide). I found the GetReportForDotMatrixReport() in the demo version, but no documentation about this feature. Can ESC printer control sequences be used to e.g. control fonts and style or the paper cutter?

Thx,
Mike

Unfortunately, Stimulsoft Reports.Net don't support ESC sequences. For use Reports.Net with DotMatrix printers you can set the "Preview Mode" property of a report to "Dot-Matrix".

If you have any questions, feel free to ask us.

Thank you.

Hi MikeT,

you could install a windows driver for this printer and use and windows based printing (like Stimulreport) but then the printer is way to slow.

For this kind of printers, like the Epson TM88-3 you have to use the escape sequences via the serial port class. Since you are coming from germany beware that use will have problems with the umlauts, since these chracaters are beyond the 7-bit ASCII encoding the serial port class supports.

Greetings, Marco

Thanks for your replies!

Printing via the windows driver with a serial port printer would indeed be a little bit slow. I'm better off doing it "manually" in this case.

Currently We're deciding to buy a new reporting tool, so I'm looking for features in various products that might be useful to us.

Is Stimulsoft Reports wpf last version suport escape sequences?
Thanks

Dear Igor,

Yes, it does support.

Thank you.

Thanks. How can I send bold italic text from designer to dot-matrix viewer with using escape sequences?

Hello,

Sorry we give you not full answer. Yes you can print reports on dot-matrix printer. Unfortunately you can't use any special formatting escape codes (report engine use it only for page-breaking and some also). Also we don't plan made improvements in this direction.

Thank you.

Hello,

We made some improvements in that direction.

Please check the following article in our knowledgebase:
http://stimulsoft.helpserve.com/index.p ... icleid=349

Please check the next prerelease build when it will be available and let us know about the result.

Thank you.