On 02/11/2006, at 7:05 AM, Gary Segal wrote:
still need some more help. I am almost there. I am able to print to
Receipt printer from AS400, but still can not open cash drawer.
I have spoke to Wasp(Cash drawer manufacturer). They told me:
"ESC P should open the cash drawer. In hexadecimal this is 1B70
and in
decimal it is 27112"
I tried to put in spool file as hex. No luck
With ASCII Transparency?
Also spoke to IBM(Client Access support team). They said that there
in no
way to trigger "ESC P" in Client access accept by putting it in
WSCST(Work
Station Customizing Object), but they no longer support it
therefore they
can not let me know how to do it.
Does anyone has any knowledge what syntaxes do I have to put in my
WSCST
object and where? Text file is pretty big. Please see attached.
It seems to me IBM support have given you an acceptable pointer to the
solution. The caveat is that I've never tried this particular support
using a WSCST however ...
A look through the WSCST source you sent shows two interesting tags
:INITPRT and :RESETPRT
A cursory glance through the WSCST Programming Reference says:
"The INITPRT (initialize printer) tag defines the ASCII control
sequence for the initialize printer function for an ASCII printer. The
host print transform function uses the INITPRT tag at the beginning of
each print job."
and
"The RESETPRT (reset printer) tag defines the ASCII control sequence
for the reset printer function for an ASCII printer. The RESETPRT tag
is used by the host print transform at the end of each print job."
Because printing a receipt is a "print job" (presuming each receipt is
a separate spooled file) it would seem reasonable that you could modify
either of these tags to include the ESC P incantation. Your only
decision is whether to open the drawer before printing the receipt
(i.e. :INITPRT) or after (:RESETPRT).
The current data for these tags already includes the Escape character.
I'm fairly sure that Escape codes can be strung together so you only
need to add the 70 to the end of the current data. Easy enough to try
it both with and without the second 1B and see what happens.
Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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