printing QR codes through an ESC/POS thermal printer?

Question

I\'m printing some QR codes (from a Ruby script) writing ESC/POS commands to a Epson TM-T20 thermal printer.

BTW, I\'m writing a simple ESC/POS commands printer \"d

Answer 1

The most complete documentation I've found for the ESC/POS command set is this one: http://content.epson.de/fileadmin/content/files/RSD/downloads/escpos.pdf

Recently, I added the QR code feature to a POS client. I've found it very useful to have a print out of this Code page 437 reference, especially for debugging a sequence that was printed.

My example is in Java, but you can get the idea:

public void print_qr_code(String qrdata)
{
    int store_len = qrdata.length() + 3;
    byte store_pL = (byte) (store_len % 256);
    byte store_pH = (byte) (store_len / 256);


    // QR Code: Select the model
    //              Hex     1D      28      6B      04      00      31      41      n1(x32)     n2(x00) - size of model
    // set n1 [49 x31, model 1] [50 x32, model 2] [51 x33, micro qr code]
    // https://reference.epson-biz.com/modules/ref_escpos/index.php?content_id=140
    byte[] modelQR = {(byte)0x1d, (byte)0x28, (byte)0x6b, (byte)0x04, (byte)0x00, (byte)0x31, (byte)0x41, (byte)0x32, (byte)0x00};

    // QR Code: Set the size of module
    // Hex      1D      28      6B      03      00      31      43      n
    // n depends on the printer
    // https://reference.epson-biz.com/modules/ref_escpos/index.php?content_id=141
    byte[] sizeQR = {(byte)0x1d, (byte)0x28, (byte)0x6b, (byte)0x03, (byte)0x00, (byte)0x31, (byte)0x43, (byte)0x03};


    //          Hex     1D      28      6B      03      00      31      45      n
    // Set n for error correction [48 x30 -> 7%] [49 x31-> 15%] [50 x32 -> 25%] [51 x33 -> 30%]
    // https://reference.epson-biz.com/modules/ref_escpos/index.php?content_id=142
    byte[] errorQR = {(byte)0x1d, (byte)0x28, (byte)0x6b, (byte)0x03, (byte)0x00, (byte)0x31, (byte)0x45, (byte)0x31};


    // QR Code: Store the data in the symbol storage area
    // Hex      1D      28      6B      pL      pH      31      50      30      d1...dk
    // https://reference.epson-biz.com/modules/ref_escpos/index.php?content_id=143
    //                        1D          28          6B         pL          pH  cn(49->x31) fn(80->x50) m(48->x30) d1…dk
    byte[] storeQR = {(byte)0x1d, (byte)0x28, (byte)0x6b, store_pL, store_pH, (byte)0x31, (byte)0x50, (byte)0x30};


    // QR Code: Print the symbol data in the symbol storage area
    // Hex      1D      28      6B      03      00      31      51      m
    // https://reference.epson-biz.com/modules/ref_escpos/index.php?content_id=144
    byte[] printQR = {(byte)0x1d, (byte)0x28, (byte)0x6b, (byte)0x03, (byte)0x00, (byte)0x31, (byte)0x51, (byte)0x30};

    // flush() runs the print job and clears out the print buffer
    flush();

    // write() simply appends the data to the buffer
    write(modelQR);

    write(sizeQR);
    write(errorQR);
    write(storeQR);
    write(qrdata.getBytes());
    write(printQR);
    flush();
}