Printing to receipt printer

rbuser

Using D7 and RB 10.09.

I am trying to print to an iThaca iTherm 280 receipt printer and I am
having an issue with page length. I have followed all of the
instructions in the "Printing to Continuous Paper" article and am still
having problems. The receipt prints fine, but there is a lot of blank
space at the end. Is there a way (in RAP) to get the receipt's height
before printing and then stop the printing when that is reached?

Thanks,
Nick

nicocizik

Hi Nick,

We have many customers using thermal receipt printers successfully with the
techniques given in the Continuous Paper article. Take a look at the
printer settings to be sure the extra space is not caused by the printer
itself. What is your paper size set to? Perhaps try alterting this value
and see if you can get better results.

The current print position can be obtained using the Engine.PrintPosRect
property however this in not available in RAP. My first thought would be to
create a two pass report and using the PrintPosRect property to determine
the report's height as the summary band prints. As passthru function would
need to be made to access the property.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com