I am developing an C# application to print labels from a thermal transfer printer from SATO (CG408 TT)
For this I am using SBPL (Programming language for SATO). Which looks something like following:
<ESC>A
<ESC>H0050<ESC>V0100<ESC>L0303<ESC>XMSATO
<ESC>H0050<ESC>V0200<ESC>B103100*SATO*
<ESC>H0070<ESC>V0310<ESC>L0101<ESC>XUSATO
<ESC>Q1<ESC>Z
To communicate with Printer and send raw data to it I am following this technique. At first i am trying to build the escape sequences using StringBuilder Class.
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.AppendLine();
sb.AppendLine("<ESC>A");
sb.AppendLine("H0050<ESC>V0100<ESC>L0303<ESC>XMSATO");
and so on....
But how can I replace <ESC>
part in string builder argument. I know that character 27, but then how to use it with AppendLine Command
Thanks in advance.
const char ESC = '\x1B';
now you can use ESC like any other variable. Note that you can embed esc in a string as well: "\x1B"
but I suppose that would become unwieldy (especially with adjacent numbers).
Please do not ESC + "somestring" + ESC
etc. because it defeats the purpose of the StringBuilder
You could
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.AppendLine();
sb.AppendLine("<ESC>A");
sb.AppendLine("H0050<ESC>V0100<ESC>L0303<ESC>XMSATO");
String output = sb.ToString().Replace("<ESC>", "\x1B")
e.g.