Print remotely via internet and without computer

General
1

Hello,

To communicate with a receipt printer (POS):

  • With a serial port: we could send ESC / POS commands
  • With a USB (or other) port: we could directly send files (eg PDF) to the driver
  • With an Ethernet port: we can use the driver. But if the printer is connected directly to the internet router without a computer, can we send (via internet) a PDF file directly to the printer? Or using ESC/POS commands is mandatory?

(Epson sells printers dedicated to it. But the customer must buy a new printer, I would prefer that this is not the case.)

Thank you
Olivier

2

Any conventional router is passing your printing information to the printer without any translation. Unless your printer understands PDF, you’ll need to speak a language it does understand.

3

With the ethernet connection, you still have a driver at the local end that translates what you give it to the printer’s language. Think of the ethernet connection as a really long invisible USB cable.