POS Application Development - Receipt Printing

Question

I\'ve been building a POS application for a restaurant/bar.
The design part is done and for the past month I\'ve been coding it.
Everything works fine except now I

Answer 1

I know this is an old post, but for those still looking for a solution, I can tell you what I did.

After spending many hours messing with OPOS and POS for .Net, I ended up just abandoning those and just using the built-in System.Drawing.Printing libraries. The OPOS and POS for .Net ended up being a pain to get working and ultimately didn't work as well as the built-in libraries.

I'm using an Epson TM-T20II receipt printer.

Here's some code that worked well for me.

public static void PrintReceiptForTransaction()
{
    PrintDocument recordDoc = new PrintDocument();

    recordDoc.DocumentName = "Customer Receipt";
    recordDoc.PrintPage += new PrintPageEventHandler(ReceiptPrinter.PrintReceiptPage); // function below
    recordDoc.PrintController = new StandardPrintController(); // hides status dialog popup
                                                                // Comment if debugging 
    PrinterSettings ps = new PrinterSettings();
    ps.PrinterName = "EPSON TM-T20II Receipt";
    recordDoc.PrinterSettings = ps;
    recordDoc.Print();
    // --------------------------------------

    // Uncomment if debugging - shows dialog instead
    //PrintPreviewDialog printPrvDlg = new PrintPreviewDialog();
    //printPrvDlg.Document = recordDoc;
    //printPrvDlg.Width = 1200;
    //printPrvDlg.Height = 800;
    //printPrvDlg.ShowDialog();
    // --------------------------------------

    recordDoc.Dispose();
}

private static void PrintReceiptPage(object sender, PrintPageEventArgs e)
{
    float x = 10;
    float y = 5;
    float width = 270.0F; // max width I found through trial and error
    float height = 0F;

    Font drawFontArial12Bold = new Font("Arial", 12, FontStyle.Bold);
    Font drawFontArial10Regular = new Font("Arial", 10, FontStyle.Regular);
    SolidBrush drawBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Black);

    // Set format of string.
    StringFormat drawFormatCenter = new StringFormat();
    drawFormatCenter.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center;
    StringFormat drawFormatLeft = new StringFormat();
    drawFormatLeft.Alignment = StringAlignment.Near;
    StringFormat drawFormatRight = new StringFormat();
    drawFormatRight.Alignment = StringAlignment.Far;

    // Draw string to screen.
    string text = "Company Name";
    e.Graphics.DrawString(text, drawFontArial12Bold, drawBrush, new RectangleF(x, y, width, height), drawFormatCenter);
    y += e.Graphics.MeasureString(text, drawFontArial12Bold).Height;

    text = "Address";
    e.Graphics.DrawString(text, drawFontArial10Regular, drawBrush, new RectangleF(x, y, width, height), drawFormatCenter);
    y += e.Graphics.MeasureString(text, drawFontArial10Regular).Height;

    // ... and so on
}

Hopefully it helps someone skip all the messing around with custom drivers. :)