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Star printer SP200 coding VB6
Name: Marty Date: November 10, 2002 at 19:05:31 Pacific OS: Win2000 CPU/Ram: PIII 800 / 256
Comment:
When trying to print charaters out to the star sp200 receipt printer using VB6, Window 2000 strips out the print control codes automatically, anyone knows how I could bypass the stripping of the printer control codes in VB6. It's also hooked up to a serial interface cash register. Much appreciated...
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