Connecting to an ethernet thermal printer

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Hi there.
Do anyone has experience on connecting to an ethernet thermal printer? Years ago I made a little app to print on a serial thermal printer, but now I have no idea on what to do to start…
Any help?

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tcpsocket is a good start.

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  1. Find the make/model
  2. Determine if you need to send it raw commands or just “print” to it
  3. If raw, find protocol and implement, if print just print to it
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If Linux/Mac:

Create a lpr printer pointing to it and create a text file with text/commands and lp -d printer textfile

If windows, don’t know but something similar must exist.

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Ciao Sergio,
usually you can send command (you have to see the printer documentation as you did for the serial one) using a TCPSocket

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[quote=406449:@Antonio Rinaldi]Ciao Sergio,
usually you can send command (you have to see the printer documentation as you did for the serial one) using a TCPSocket[/quote]
Thanks a lot! tcpsocket.write is what i was looking for! On next monday I’ll be on the customer location and I’ll try! Thanks again.