使用C＃为POSTEK G-2108打印机创建POS软件

Question

My client want my program (a database reader program) to print all the data (in the program) to be a label in a paper roll.

They want the program can print with their printer (a barcode printer POSTEK g-2108) I have finished designing the program but when it comes to "print" it confuse me I've never designed a POS software and create a specialy "layout" printing before

What the first thing I should do? I am using Visual Studio 2010 with .NET v4 Framework

Answer 1

There is no definitive answer to your question. You need to interface with the POS device. You usually do this by using their API (.dll). That API then interfaces with the devices driver and does the things you tell it to do. If their .dll is written in C/C++ You can use DllImport so you can call the functions it exposes from C#.

Can't really tell you anything else, learn the API the manufacturer provides and then use it.

Good luck

Answer 2

I've done this in the past by using the Microsoft POS for .net layer

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=5355

As long as your printer has a compatible driver, it's a much easier way of interfacing.