Modern thermal printer to emulate 82240B

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(02-25-2018 03:17 AM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  If you can send graphics to the printer, you might be better off translating the bitmap part of the shell_print() calls to graphics escape sequences and sending only those. That way you'd get the actual HP-42S character shapes, no worrying about code pages, and as a bonus, PRLCD would also work.

Here's a link to an interesting project in which the author was trying to build an HP82240B replacement using a low cost Chinese POS printer from TAS. He took the bitmap approach so you can learn something from his experience doing so.

https://hackaday.io/project/25616-hp-822...-interface

My conclusion from his travails with two low cost units is that POS has an alternative scatological meaning
~Mark