Printing to a label printer

[charlie]

Hi,

We now have vdos working printing all reports/ invoices etc. An area we are struggling with is printing of labels. These are created for each box of product we produce. However, our program sends raw code to a serial label printer through no driver. 

If i print to a normal printer it just comes out like the below. I can see our data within that.

I presume the code in front of the data is spacing and positioning instructions? 
Would the only way to alter this be to alter the code of our program itself or is there another way to interpret this?




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D11

R0005

1Y2200002800050LOGO

1X1100001300020B370250002002

1X1100000000020B370125002002

1X1100002700022L366002

141100003500180Currie & Warner Ltd.

131100003300180Powell Street,

131100003150180Birmingham. B1 3DH

131100003000180England.

121100002850180TEL: [phone]

131100002400045C&W Box Ref.

14110000218004556656901

111100002050045566568

111100002050075

111100002050105

1A620450205018056656901

121100001800045C&W Part No.:

131100001800135MA5659

121100001800245C&W Iss:

131100001800295B

121100001650045C&W Insp.No.:

13110000165013529768-1-143-P

121100001500045Finish : SELF-COLOUR

121100001350045Packed By : 1366

121100001350170Date:12/ 3/19

121100001350265Net : 5.16 Kgs

1A620400065007594975006

121100000480045Part No. :

13110000048013594975006

121100000480265Iss:

121100000480295Q -25/ 6/12

121100000300045Description :

131100000300135PART 1234

121100000120045Quantity :

1311000001201353000

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Kind Regards,


Charlie 

[Jos]

Those code sequences are indeed only meaningful to the label printer, controlling its printout.

You have two options to get the programs output to the printer as-is:
Add:
COMx = "COMy":
To config.txt, COMx being the DOS port, COMy the Windows port. The trailing colon is mandatory. Eventually COMy has to be setup before vDos starts, see Printing.pdf.

Better:
Add a Windows printer ("Label printer", assign it to COMy, printer driver: Generic Text Only.
Then in config.txt:
COMx = SEL:"Label printer" RAW
This way vDos and Windows will recognize the output as a print job.

Jos