Drive a POS printer via USB in c#

c# usb point-of-sale
JDibble picture JDibble · Oct 9, 2008 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

Any ideas how i can best drive a USB POS printer from c#. POS printers are usually serial, TCP/IP or USB based. I know how to accomplish serial and TCP/IP but have no idea about communications through USB in C#. I know that there is a layer available from Microsoft called POS.NET, but I want to try and avoid using this. Any ideas or any C# libraries that people can recomend would be really appreciated. Thanks

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Sylvester picture Sylvester · Mar 4, 2009

You should really consider using POS for .NET and OPOS or .NET service objects (Epson, for example provides both). POS for .NET conforms to the UnifiedPOS industry standard for interfacing with these devices.

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