Sending Cut paper command to ESC POS printer

[Lawrence Gould]

I am trying to send commands to an ESC/POS printer over bluetooth. The printer in question is an Epson TM-T88II which is not a bluetooth enabled printer but with the aid of an HC-05 bluetooth module and MAX232 chip I am able to send both text and Line Feed commands, however I am struggling to send a paper cut command which is GS,V or decimal 29,86 (Hex 1D,56). In order to Line Feed I am sending a 1byte number to the printer, the number 10 which works fine but I seem unable to format the Paper Cut?

[Abraham Getzler]

You have two different ways to try...

Send a list of decimal bytes or

Use the Web component blocks to encode the decimal values into text, and send the text.

See attached.

ABG

[Lawrence Gould]

Thank you! I tried the 1st example which worked when I eventually realised that I was missing the last parameter so I added another item to the list to define whether the cut was full or partial and the printer executed a paper cut. Then I noticed something peculiar, I had sent a line of text, 2 line feeds and then the paper cut to the printer but it seems to be executing them in reverse order cutting though the last printed line, feeding 2 lines then printing the text again?

[Lawrence Gould]

Sorry my mistake, print head is a lot lower than the cutter and I just didn't put enough line feeds in to clear the printed text before cutting.