Open Cash Drawers attached to the Receipt Printer EPSON T-20

[Mohsin Malik]

Good Day hope you are well and have a wonderful week,

We have an Access database that opened some cash drawers attached to the computer through USB and it is working perfectly. We have some of the cash drawers that are attached to the EPSON Receipt printer and we also want to open those Cash Drawers attached to the receipt printer. Can you please help for the code to open the cash drawer attached to the receipt printer, Is there any command available that I could send to the receipt printer and it would open the Cash Drawer.

I have also taken the screenshot of the utility program that will show the information regarding the printer and I am very expecting to get this working soon as we have build the Microsoft Access database that would help in checking the cash drawer status and also open the USB cash drawers.

Looking forward to hear from you

Thank you
Mohsin

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

The image you have provided is practically unreadable!

A 2 minute search took me straight to the manual online HERE

Please confirm this is the correct manual...

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

From this Link: https://pos.epson.com/download/?AssetPK=27474

I Found this:

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.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

It looks like you need to get the ESC/POS Commands from Epson?

The ESC/POS command is the printer command system developed by EPSON. This allows you to directly control the
all functions of the printer. Using the commands with the driver, you can use a function that is not provided by the
driver.
Compared to using the drivers, using the commands is difficult because you need to have knowledge about the detailed
printer specifications and how to combine the commands.
Refer to the ESC/POS Quick Reference for a simple explanation of the ESC/POS command. A detailed explanation of
the ESC/POS command is included in the ESC/POS Application Programming Guide. You can obtain this guide by
signing a non-disclosure agreement with Epson.

 

[Mohsin Malik]

The image you have provided is practically unreadable!

A 2 minute search took me straight to the manual online HERE

Please confirm this is the correct manual...

Hello Gizmo,

Thank you for the reply and Yes this is the correct manual posted by you and here is the dropbox link for the PDF of the image in better quality https://www.dropbox.com/s/p84kqak346ji2bm/EPSON%20TM-T20%20Screenshots.pdf, please review and let me know if you will have some suggestions.

Thank you
Mohsin

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

Hello Gizmo,

>>>please review and let me know if you will have some suggestions<<<

Thank you
Mohsin

I already made two replies, do you have a response to those?

 

[Mohsin Malik]

I already made two replies, do you have a response to those?

Hello Gizmo,

Thank you for the reply, I have Installed the ADP for TM-20 Epson receipt printer and tried there code samples with the instructions, I have the printer live and it give me message that "Failed to Open Printer status Monitor", "Printer is not available" etc. I am unsure how to get this fixed as I have tried many ways as per my knowledge and just wondering if there is some simple vba code that will open the cash drawer by sending any vba command to the printer.

Thanks
Mohsin