I need to print a bill through TVS 3160 POS Thermal printer.Please help me ...

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I need to print a bill with the help of TVS 3160 thermal printer which works on ESI/POS Emulation. I have done with my whole software but stucked here... Is crystal report helpful for this????

Posted 22-Mar-14 1:58am

Ankit K. Saxena

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King Fisher 22-Mar-14 8:17am

not clear.

Ankit K. Saxena 22-Mar-14 8:29am

print a bill with the help of a thermal printer using my c# application in tvs thermal printer

King Fisher 22-Mar-14 8:31am

what do you have tried,?where you stuck?

Ankit K. Saxena 22-Mar-14 8:33am

actually i have developed my whole software inventory management stock management and billing panel now i have stucked here to print the bill from database with thermal printer give me a way

King Fisher 22-Mar-14 8:39am

have you set a bill format in your Form?

ZurdoDev 22-Mar-14 9:01am

I would first read the documentation on that printer. Is it different than normal printers? Search google for information on the printer.

Ankit K. Saxena 24-Mar-14 0:24am

I have read the documentation of printer it works on ESI/POS emulation

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Solution 1

I'd not use Crystal Reports or any other reporting tool for printing bills IF you are targeting special printers like thermals or dot matrix/impact ones. Instead, I'd try to learn the printer target language commands (ESC/POS in your case which is not hard to learn at all) and would send the raw commands to the printer by using this code http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322091[^]
Printing performance will be way better than using Crystal Reports or alike.

Posted 24-Mar-14 0:49am

Marc Gabrie

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Ankit K. Saxena 24-Mar-14 7:35am

Marc Gabrie do you please tell me some tutorial link for ESC/POS command . unable to find any useful resource with google

SoMad 25-Mar-14 2:57am

Take a look at these:
http://support.epson.ru/upload/library_file/14/esc-p.pdf[^]
http://nicholas.piasecki.name/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ESC-POS-Programming-Guide.pdf[^]

Soren Madsen

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Ankit K. Saxena · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-13T06:55:00

Solution 3

Hi
Sorry for such a late rep but i have done it with the help of crystal report. I have just simply install the printer driver and in crystal report page setup section i have select the printer name and allot the required size as in my case its 80 X roll paper.... and after simply deisgning a crystal report i have print it.. thanks all for their valuable time.

Posted 13-Oct-14 6:55am

Ankit K. Saxena

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Aman Sati 20-Dec-14 4:51am

can you send me driver link i have same problem

Ankit K. Saxena 20-Dec-14 8:13am

Hi Aman

Actually i got the drivers in the CD i got with the printer

Er. Hardeep 5-Aug-16 7:17am

Hii Ankit, can you send me the drivers via Email or anyhow? I need them urgently. Thanx in advance

Er. Hardeep 5-Aug-16 7:17am

My Email ID is: hardeeoverma0008@gmail.com

Ankit K. Saxena 20-Dec-14 8:15am

For window 7
http://www.tvs-e.in/drivers/RP-3160/RP-3160-STAR-Windows-NT-95-98-ME-2000-XP-2003-Vista-2008-7.zip

For window 8

http://www.tvs-e.in/drivers/RP-3160/RP-3160-STAR-Windows-8-Driver.zip

Enjoy coding.. :-)