[PIC] interface with printer srp350ii

[saman1969]

hi
i want to send characters to printer model srp350ii . my microcontroller is pic16f876A that have paraller connection with my printer .i have read some datasheets of srp350ii and non of them say any thing about my problem . all them say commands for communication with srp350ii .i have not yet be succefull to print any character . would any one help me . what can be its code?
thanks

 

[th3gr8]

For such kind of projects, you need to consider EPSON ESC/POS protocol and it has its own command set. For normal text printing, you just need to:
1) initialize the printer (its buffers)
2) send character to its buffer
3) execute the print command to print the character
4) issue a paper cut command.
Couples of months ago i interfaced a similar printer but with serial port.

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Here is the link for EPSON ESC/POS protocol.

http://content.epson.de/fileadmin/content/files/RSD/downloads/escpos.pdf

Understand the example given at Page# 15.

I hope it helps ..