Windows & filePro Printers

[Barry Wiseman]

On 4/6/2012 11:31 AM, smittyusn1 at bellsouth.net wrote:
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> On another note,  a client  has asked me to convert him out of a Quickbooks
> POS program into a filePro app.,  I have looked over his operation and the
> only snag I can see now is he has a  Star 200 Thermal direct receipt
> printer and Windows XP.   What are the thoughts from the list on a project
> like this?
Thermal printers generally require a proprietary markup language to position the output, or indeed to print at all.  The formatting requirements for receipt printing should be pretty simple.  If you can get your hands on the appropriate manual for the printer, devising the necessary filePro print codes is probably not a big job.