I'm working with an EPSON Receipt POS Printer (TM-T70) on Windows and need to know if the printer is online or offline, low or out of paper, the cover is open, etc.
From what I understand, the Status API is bundled with the EPSON Advanced Printer Driver. What I can't figure out is how I can work with it. I can't find any useful documentation nor code samples anywhere.
I'm using Java but if someone has some non-Java samples, I'd be happy too.
For your consideration, I know that this can be achieved with JavaPOS but I can't get JavaPOS to work in Windows as described in this other question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3241087/jpos-configuration-problems-for-an-epson-pos-printer-in-windows.