How do I print to dotmatrix printer using escp

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Before everyone tells me I am mad I know. Who would in their right mind use a dot-matrix printer in 2020. Well, I am! We are trying to use it to print shipping information for transport companies who do not have a digital system to manage their bookings and are still using handwritten multi-layered paperwork.
What I have done is have our own paperwork printed as a continuous multilayered form to be printed onto using a dot matrix printer.

The printer we are trying to use is an Oki Microline 720 Plus. Here is a link to the user manual https://www.oki.com/printing/download/42113905EE2_ML720P_PH_63088.pdf?id=42113905EE
We have it set up with a Oki LAN7130E Network card installed.

we use a product called printnode to send print jobs from our ERP to our printers. print node supports RAW printing using a Base64 encoded string. we have successfully used this approach to print to Zebra Lable printers using ZPL with no issues so I don't think this is the issue. here is a link to their documentation https://www.printnode.com/en/docs/what-is-raw-printing and https://www.printnode.com/en/docs/api/curl#printjob-creating

the Print node client is running on a Windows Server 2012 R2 instance with the OKI Dot-Matrix 9Pin ESC/P Class Driver installed. I can print From a text document on the Server fine.

when I try to print using ESCP Commands as ASCII or Hexadecimal nothing happens on the printer below is the code that I was trying to use. this I was encoding as Base64 and sending using the PrintNode API. all I got in the print queue on the server is sent to printer.

ASCII

ESC @
ESC 0
ESC 1 10
ESC Q 75
This is a Test Print Wow! CR LF
FF
ESC @

Hexadecimal

1B 40 1B 30 1B 6C 31 30 1B 51 37 35 54 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 20 54 65 73 74 20 50 72 69 6e 74 20 57 6f 77 21 0D 0A 0C 1B 40

How can I test the above RAW code from the server directly or am I making a simple mistake
the document that I have been referring to for the above code is both the Oki user manual and the following document from EPSOM. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjDmPLf4e_qAhXRpOkKHSSVDbsQFjACegQIAhAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.support.epson.com%2Fpdf%2Fgeneral%2Fescp2ref.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2-85x1sH-SYp8YNzuqM7cg

What I have tried:

I have tried setting the printer up on a windows 7 VM and using VS2008 to print the Data directly to the printer as a string. all I get is the string typed out.

Realy Stuck Now!

Thanks in advance for any help provided. if I can get this working I will save up to 3 man-hours a day due to not having to handwrite all these documents.