Application Development Information; How To Control The Printer; Driver - Epson TM-P20 Software User Manual

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Application Development Information

This chapter explains how to control this printer and gives information useful for printer application development.

How to Control the Printer

The printer is controlled by the drivers or ESC/POS commands.

Driver

Printer Driver
This is an Windows driver (APD = EPSON Advanced Printer Driver) which allows you to control POS operations,
such as printing logos and barcodes, controlling paper cutting function and cash drawer. See this manual for more
details about the printer driver. The driver includes Status API which allows you to monitor the printer status, and to
send the ESC/POS commands.
See the following manuals and sample programs provided with EPSON Advanced Printer Driver Ver.5 for further
details on using the driver and how to develop an application using the Status API functions.
❏ Install Manual
❏ Printer Manual
❏ Printer Specification for TM-P20
❏ Status API Manual
UPOS
This stands for Unified Point of Service. It is the standard specification of POS market, which defines drivers for
controlling POS peripheral devices in various operation environments. Using the driver, you can develop POS system
efficiently because you do not need to newly create commands. The following TM-P20 drivers that conform to UPOS
are provided. Use one of them in accordance with your system environment.
❏ EPSON OPOS ADK
Suitable for an application that operates the printer under 32-bit version of Windows.
❏ EPSON OPOS ADK for .NET
Suitable for an application that operates the printer under Windows .NET environment.
❏ EPSON JavaPOS ADK for Windows
Suitable for an application that operates the printer under Windows Java environment.
See the following document for the information about how to create an environment and develop an application.
EPSON OPOS ADK
❏ OPOS Installation Manual
Software User's Manual
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