I took your advice and along the way found that the \r was also essential.
This now works:
use Win32::SerialPort;
$port=new Win32::SerialPort('COM2');
$port-databits(8);
$port-baudrate(9600);
$port-parity(none);
$port-stopbits(1);
$port-handshake(none);
$port-write(Now is the time\r\nto meet the
David Ressler wrote:
Thanks for the start.
I managed to get Win32::SerialPort to wake up the printer but it's printing
gibberish. I'm setting it to the same baud rate, etc., as the (functioning)
Generic / Text printer that I set up using the Windows Add Printer.
Do you have any code snippits
, 2006 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: Driving a POS printer from Perl
David Ressler wrote:
Thanks for the start.
I managed to get Win32::SerialPort to wake up the printer but it's printing
gibberish. I'm setting it to the same baud rate, etc., as the (functioning)
Generic / Text printer that I set up using
David Ressler wrote:
I have a printer for a POS application (an Epson TM-T88II for the record) that I
need to drive from a Perl script running under CGI. The printer runs OK as a
Generic/Text printer on Serial Port 1 under Windows 2000 (and I assume Windows
XP). Do I need to work through a
