Is it possible to check the print result with raw printer emulator?

[Han MingYun]

Hello

I am trying to print receipt with qrcode with qz-tray 2.0

Because I have not physical device, I am using printer emulator that was pointed in https://qz.io/wiki/printer-emulators

For test, I added 2 printer emulators such as ESC/POS, Zebra like attached screenshot.

But I can't find a way how to check the printing result.

When I don't use qrcode printing, I used Microsoft XPS writer and result was checked by *.oxps file.

But it is not working after I use qrcode print.

Hope you check the screenshot and help me.

Thanks

[Kyle LaBarge]

Hi Han,

Neither of those printers look like valid virtual printers for raw printing.

I recommend you create a virtual file printer and inspect the "text" output for validity.

https://qz.io/wiki/Setting-Up-A-Raw-Printer-in-Windows#for-virtual-printer-file

• By default, the output is saved to your documents folder.

If you're printing ZPL, you can use Labelary to manually view the rendered ZPL: http://labelary.com/viewer.html

Hope that helps!

Kyle LaBarge

GitHub

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[Han MingYun]

When I print with printer emulator *.prn file is created.

But I can't check this file is correct or not.

I tried to check by changing the extension to *.xps, but it is not allowed.

So, I have still trouble for this.

Would you like to see whether my javascript code is correct or not?

On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 9:00:44 PM UTC+8, Kyle LaBarge wrote:

Hi Han,

Neither of those printers look like valid virtual printers for raw printing.

I recommend you create a virtual file printer and inspect the "text" output for validity.

https://qz.io/wiki/Setting-Up-A-Raw-Printer-in-Windows#for-virtual-printer-file

• By default, the output is saved to your documents folder.

If you're printing ZPL, you can use Labelary to manually view the rendered ZPL: http://labelary.com/viewer.html

Hope that helps!

Kyle LaBarge

GitHub

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 6:49 AM Han MingYun <hanming...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello

I am trying to print receipt with qrcode with qz-tray 2.0

Because I have not physical device, I am using printer emulator that was pointed in https://qz.io/wiki/printer-emulators

For test, I added 2 printer emulators such as ESC/POS, Zebra like attached screenshot.

But I can't find a way how to check the printing result.

When I don't use qrcode printing, I used Microsoft XPS writer and result was checked by *.oxps file.

But it is not working after I use qrcode print.

Hope you check the screenshot and help me.

Thanks

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[Kyle LaBarge]

Hi Han,

When I print with printer emulator *.prn file is created.

But I can't check this file is correct or not.

I tried to check by changing the extension to *.xps, but it is not allowed.

This won't work. Raw languages are proprietary and there's no "viewer" we are aware of other than the previously linked labelary. You can edit the *.prn file with a text editor to verify the "printed" raw code.

There is a Chrome app "Zpl Printer" that's in our Raw Printer Emulator wiki that we've used with success. It only works for ZPL output.

Also in our printer emulator wiki is "QPCPrint" for ESC/POS. It requires Windows 7 and for UAC to be disabled on the system to work.

I hope that helps.

Kyle LaBarge

GitHub

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[SYSTEM&WEB S.A.]

QPCPrint

ESC/P and ESC/P2 are not related to ESC/POS, 

you cannot use QPCPrint if you want to print ESC/POS data. 

Please always use the demo first to see if QPCPrint works for you. If not your data is probably not in ESC/P format.

[Tres Finocchiaro]

Yes, this recommendation from 2016 to use ESC/P emulator for ESC/POS was incorrect.

We are not aware of any ESC/POS emulators.

[SYSTEM&WEB S.A.]

I found receipt-print-hq/escpos-tools/esc2html.md, 

That script shows a preview in html, to use it as emulator, I just set up a service that receives the raw and executes the script, showing the html in an iframe

[Tres Finocchiaro]

Thanks, well get this added this to our emulator page.

https://qz.io/docs/printer-emulators#raw