Android Question Star-Dust BT Printer library - How to get printer responses

abilio486software

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SD: BT Printer Bluetooth

ANNOUNCEMENT Starting today, this library will be abandoned and will no longer be distributed. A new, more comprehensive Android library for ESC/POS thermal printers will be released. (BT, BLE, LAN, USB) (here) (No WRAP, No Java Only B4A) BT_Printer library allows you to print text and...
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How to check if the printer does not have paper or its door is open?
Do we have any event to receive answers from printer, according with the ESC/POS commands we sent to printer?
 
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agraham

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Theoretically my Bluetooth printer class can receive responses from the printer, but I haven't actually tried it.

Bluetooth ESC/POS Printer Class

For the last couple of weeks I have been playing with an 80mm Bluetooth ESC/POS thermal printer I bought off eBay, new and delivered, for the ludicrously cheap price of £20. While the print quality, particularly of images with large areas of black (they are gray due to power supply or thermal...
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It's a BA class module that uses the Serial library and AsyncStreams so you can tweak it if you need to.
 
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Star-Dust

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Hi, in the various documentations it does not appear that a printer sends back any error messages or communication.

If you find one let me know
 
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abilio486software

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Hi,

With "DLE EOT n", we can obtain the printer status, knowing if the door is open or if it is out of paper.

I think you only need to triger an even to us with bytes returned by the printer.
 

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Star-Dust

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abilio486software said:
Hi,

With "DLE EOT n", we can obtain the printer status, knowing if the door is open or if it is out of paper.

I think you only need to triger an even to us with bytes returned by the printer.
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We must also see how it responds. We will have to do some tests.
 
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abilio486software

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If you could trigger NewData bytes would be wonderful

serial response: 
Sub AStream_NewData (Buffer() As Byte)
    
    Log("len:" & Buffer.Length)
    If  Buffer.Length>0 Then
        printer_answer_byte1    = Buffer(0)
    End If
    
End Sub
 
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Star-Dust

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In the current version, what arrives from the printer is sent in the LOGs.
So try to see what it returns in the logs and let me know
 
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