Specify Font For Controlling Printer Drawer Kick

[markjw]

@1bigwink

the ticket printers are all different brands and some don’t support pos mode

I have never seen a ticket printer that doesn’t support ESC/POS mode.

@1bigwink

also we print graphics and logos etc so we really need the windows printer functionality

You can print logos and graphics using ESC/POS mode

Printer Template Formatting Tags

##General <T> (Title) : When used it will format line as a title. <F> (Fill) : For example <F>- creates a line with - chars or <F>= creates a line with = chars. <EB> (Enable Bold) Prints everything Bold until <DB> command. <DB> (Disable Bold) Ends <EB> command <Jxy> (Justified) Justifies a line from pipe char. <J00>Total:|0.00 separates line from pipe (|) char. It aligns Total: part left and 0.00 part right. When used on a ESC/POS compatible ticket printer numeric parts sets font size. Fi…

@1bigwink

Also this partocular printer only seems to allow commands when a special font is used

If you refer to the link I provided in the last post, you will see that is not the case and the specific printer you refer to (Sam4s Ellix20ii) does support ESC/POS mode.

@1bigwink

Is there any way to kick the drawer within the kick drawer template but using the fontcontrol font?

No, it is impossible. Therefore please use ESC/POS mode. If you really want to use “windows printer” mode, you will have very limited layout ability - you should use Document Printer mode for the best layout experience. For the cash drawer, you will need to use ESC/POS, so you setup a separate printer on SambaPOS to only do the drawer kick.

To setup cash drawer as a separae printer you can follow the tutorial here:

Using Cash Drawers

On this tutorial I’ll show you how to operate cash drawers. ###Connection types Serial Connection: Drawer connects to PC through serial port. This connection type is not recommended because drawers does not have power source of their own and to be able to kick drawer they use power from serial port. If port voltage is not enough for cash drawer it won’t work. If you have that kind of drawers on hand you can search Google for USB powered kickers. RJ11 Connection: Drawer connects to a recei…