I am trying to print ESC/pos commands from the .txt file using windows command prompt.
Let me explain what I tried so far:
I have connected my Epson Tm-m30 printer. Using a virtual port driver I can print the .txt file using the following command:
print /d:COM1 'file path'
Now my question: as it is, ESC/pos printer needs to print the ESC/pos commands like a paper cut, barcode printing, etc. When I paste the ESC/pos commands in the .txt file, it is print as it is, not as ESC/pos commands.
I am trying to print The following ESC/pos commands:
\x1B\x40
\x1D(k\x0d\x00\x30\x50\x30TEST PRINT
\x1D(k\x03\x00\x30\x51\x
But while printing it is printing it looks like above, not as ESC commands.
How do I print ESC/pos commands using a .txt file?
There are no commands built into Windows by default, so the following options are possible.
Use the tools distributed by EPSON
Send Data Tool
Issuing Receipts with Barcodes
Use a free tool published by someone somewhere
Create your own with a script tool such as PowerShell
about_Special_Characters
Make your own with C++/C#/VB etc.
Regex.Unescape(String) Method
Regular Expression Language - Quick Reference
Create a file with binary data instead of text and copy it to COM1 with the copy /b command
I am trying to print a pdf file from dos, in windows xp.
C:\>print c:\dos.pdf /D:"\\jayaprada-pc\HP LaserJet 1018"
C:\dos.pdf is currently being printed
Its saying doc is being is printed. but no print is coming my printer.
Its showing the document in printer spooler window.
When giving print normally from adobe reader , print is coming fine.
What is wrong with my config.
Actually i want to print a pdf document from command line , so it wont pop up printer properties.
Suggest me any other alternative or third party tool that can be used print from command line in windows.
Use this:
AcroRd32.exe /t <file.pdf> <printer_name> <printer_driver> <printer_port>
For example:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 11.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" /t "D:\File.pdf" "Brother MFC-7820N USB Printer" "Brother MFC-7820N USB Printer" "IP_192.168.10.110"
Note: To find the printer information, right click your printer and choose properties.
In my case shown above, the printer name and driver.
I would like to create a scheduled task to run every 5 minutes or so that will get the contents of a network share, print any PDF files, and delete those files once they have been printed.
The tricky part is automating the process - how do we accomplish this without having to approve a dialog box every time? The printer is also a network printer (TCP/IP port) rather than LPT or COM or USB.
The script will be running on a machine whose default printer is the printer where these jobs need to be sent.
This batch framework is something you can schedule to print the PDF files once you find a method to print them. "%%a" is the quoted path\filename of each PDF file.
Just replace the indented line with the command and "%%a" and maybe the printer ipaddress or name or the command might use the default printer - it depends on the tool being used to print the files.
#echo off
for %%a in ("c:\folder\*.pdf") do (
"print command for pdf files.exe" use this to refer to each pdf file ->> "%%a"
)
Alright, this is outside my area of expertise but so here's what I'm trying to do:
→ I have a POS (Point of Sale) receipt printer. I have the drivers installed for it and can print a test page with it. I can also print from notepad++ (for example), although it leaves a lot of empty space. This printer is set as the default printer.
→ I want to be able to print a single line to the printer using some automated process in Windows. My initial thought was to have the line I wanted to print in a text file and then to use:
print C:\filename.txt
from Command Prompt. However, this results in
C:\filename.txt is currently being printed
but nothing is printed. I am unfamiliar with ESC/POS and do not understand where to incorporate those commands either. Basically, printing a txt file from Command Prompt is my first necessity though. Any help?
Try this :
START /MIN NOTEPAD /P yourfile.txt
I'd try
copy /b yourfilename yourportname
where yourportname may be PRN: or LPT1: or whatever.
I would like to deal with filename containing strange characters, like the French é.
Everything is working fine in the shell:
C:\somedir\>ren -hélice hélice
I know if I put this line in a .bat file, I obtain the following result:
C:\somedir\>ren -hÚlice hÚlice
See ? é have been replaced by Ú.
The same is true for command output. If I dir some directory in the shell, the output is fine. If I redirect this output to a file, some characters are transformed.
So how can I tell cmd.exe how to interpret what appears as an é in my batch file, is really an é and not a Ú or a comma?
So there is no way when executing a .bat file to give an hint about the codepage in which it was written?
You have to save the batch file with OEM encoding. How to do this varies depending on your text editor. The encoding used in that case varies as well. For Western cultures it's usually CP850.
Batch files and encoding are really two things that don't particularly like each other. You'll notice that Unicode is also impossible to use there, unfortunately (even though environment variables handle it fine).
Alternatively, you can set the console to use another codepage:
chcp 1252
should do the trick. At least it worked for me here.
When you do output redirection, such as with dir, the same rules apply. The console window's codepage is used. You can use the /u switch to cmd.exe to force Unicode output redirection, which causes the resulting files to be in UTF-16.
As for encodings and code pages in cmd.exe in general, also see this question:
What encoding/code page is cmd.exe using
EDIT: As for your edit: No, cmd always assumes the batch file to be written in the console default codepage. However, you can easily include a chcp at the start of the batch:
chcp 1252>NUL
ren -hélice hélice
To make this more robust when used directly from the commandline, you may want to memorize the old code page and restore it afterwards:
#echo off
for /f "tokens=2 delims=:." %%x in ('chcp') do set cp=%%x
chcp 1252>nul
ren -hélice hélice
chcp %cp%>nul
I was having trouble with this, and here is the solution I found. Find the decimal number for the character you are looking for in your current code page.
For example, I'm in codepage 437 (chcp tells you), and I want a degree sign, . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 tells me that the degree sign is number 248.
Then you find the Unicode character with the same number.
The Unicode character at 248 (U+00F8) is .
If you insert the Unicode character in your batch script, it will display to the console as the character you desire.
So my batch file
echo
prints
°
I created the following block, which I put at the beginning of my batch files:
set Filename=%0
IF "%Filename:~-8%" == "-850.bat" GOTO CONVERT_CODEPAGE_END
rem Converting code page from 1252 to 850.
rem My editors use 1252, my batch uses 850.
rem We create a converted -850.bat file, and then launch it.
set File850=%~n0-850.bat
PowerShell.exe -Command "get-content %0 | out-file -encoding oem -filepath %File850%"
call %File850%
del %File850%
EXIT /b 0
:CONVERT_CODEPAGE_END
I care about three concepts:
Output Console Encoding
Command line internal encoding (that changed with chcp)
.bat Text Encoding
The easiest scenario to me: I will have the first two mentioned in the same encoding, say CP850, and I will store my .bat in that same encoding (in Notepad++, menu Encoding → Character sets → Western European → OEM 850).
But suppose someone hands me a .bat in another encoding, say CP1252 (in Notepad++, menu Encoding* → Character sets → Western European → Windows-1252)
Then I would change the command line internal encoding, with chcp 1252.
This changes the encoding it uses to talk with other processes, neither the input device nor output console.
So my command line instance will effectively send characters in 1252 through its STDOUT file descriptor, but gabbed text appears when the console decodes them out as 850 (é is Ú).
Then I modify the file as follows:
#echo off
perl -e "use Encode qw/encode decode/;" -e "print encode('cp850', decode('cp1252', \"ren -hlice hlice\n\"));"
ren -hlice hlice
First I turn echo off so the commands don't output unless explicitly doing either echo... or perl -e "print..."
Then I put this boilerplate each time I need to output something
perl -e "use Encode qw/encode decode/;" -e "print encode('cp850', decode('cp1252', \"ren -hélice hélice\n\"));"
I substitute the actual text I'll show for this: ren -hélice hélice.
And also I could need to substitute my console encoding for cp850 and other side encoding for cp1252.
And just below I put the desired command.
I did broke the problematic line into the output half and the real command half.
The first I make for sure: The "é" is interpreted as an "é" by means of transcoding. It is necessary for all the output sentences since the console and the file are at different encodings.
The second, the real command (muttered with #echo off), knowing we have the same encoding both from chcp and the .bat text is enough to ensure a proper character interpretation.
I had polish signs inside the code in R (eg. ą, ę, ź, ż etc.) and had the problem while running this R script with .bat file (in the output file .Rout instead of those signs there were signs like %, &, # etc. and the code didn't run to the end).
My solution:
Save R script with encoding: File > Save with encoding > CP1250
Run .bat file
It worked for me but if there is still the problem, try to use the other encodings.
In Visual Studio Code, click on the encoding at the bottom, choose Save with encoding, then DOS(CP437).