Java and thermal receipt printer

Question

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to print receipt use Java? I have googled for a long time. It seems Java POS should be a good solution. I have a quick look at it and it looks need the printer's Java driver. My printer is a cheap one, support ESC, but only have Windows driver.

I also tried:

 FileWriter out = new FileWriter("LPT1");

It does not work,

java.io.FileNotFoundException: lpt1 (The system cannot find the file specified)

Printable does not work neither.

Does any one know how to do this? Thanks.

Answer 1

Does it happen to be an IP Printer? If so, they generally listen on port 9100, and you can just write to that directly (text data) and it will print. You'll want to look up appropriate escape sequences, to do various things (cut, for example).

Answer 2

Is the Java Print Service API of use ? If not, perhaps the javacomm package since you're writing to a serial port.