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I want to print receipt to thermal printer?

I have developed a inventory software in VB where sale invoice or receipt can be printed in A4 size paper. These reports have been generated by crystal report. To get used this software in point of sale, bar code fecilities has been developed. But the main problem is that after the items entered by bar code reader in the form, how the receipt or sale invoice can be printed in a tiny size paper or slip using thermal printer? I want to know how to do send the print command to thermal printer to print receipt in a slip. Actually I'm confused if crystal report should be created to print receipt in a slip. I will appreciate if anyone ans.

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1. You need to know explicitly the details of the specific printer. Is it serial, parallel? If it is serial there will be a command set that you will have to send via RS232 to start printing. Either way you will probably have to write a custom function to format the data you want to send to a reciept sized print out.