Sale receipt printing (at POS) by Crystal Report. Please help

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Dear All,

I am working on a POS app. My Manager said to me print Sale receipt by Crystal report (Required from our customer). Selected printer is POS-80.
I am successful to print on A4 size paper But I have no idea to print it on POS-80 printer (also with auto cut) whose paper width is 76mm.

Please guide me regarding it.
How to set paper width size? that it can be print on POS-80.
How to reduce time to print ? (because crystal reporting printing is taking extra time)
How to implement auto cut?

Thanks.........

Posted 23-Nov-14 6:07am

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Zoltán Zörgő 30-Nov-14 7:55am

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**Zoltán Zörgő** · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-23T08:27:00

I don't know POS-80 in special (this[^] is it?). But if you are a serious developer you forget Crystal Reports in this case. You might have Windows driver for it - or even worse, you might not have... but it will be never efficient. Haven't you seen a dot matrix printer printing in text mode, and in windows driven graphics mode?

First of all, search for a complete documentation. If it is Epson compatible[^], than you might have better chances to find even a component for it.

Now consult the documentation and find out how to control it on low level. Forget the Windows driver. Yes, it might be considerable amout of work to compared to dragging any report components, but only this way you will have full speed and even use the cut function.

This might be a starting point: How to send cut command in Thermal Printer[^]