escpos

About escpos

This is a Golang package that provides ESC-POS library functions to help with sending control codes to a ESC-POS thermal printer.

It was largely inspired by seer-robotics/escpos but is a complete rewrite.

It implements the protocol described in this Command Manual

Current featureset

• Initializing the Printer
• Toggling Underline mode
• Toggling Bold text
• Toggling upside-down character printing
• Toggling Reverse mode
• Linespace settings
• Rotated characters
• Align text
• Default ASCII Charset, Western Europe and GBK encoding
• Character size settings
• UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN13, EAN8 Barcodes
• QR Codes
• Standard printing mode
• Image Printing
• Printing of predefined NV images

Installation

Install the package via the following:

go get -u github.com/hennedo/escpos

Usage

The escpos package can be used as the following:

package main

import (
	"github.com/hennedo/escpos"
	"net"
)

func main() {
	socket, err := net.Dial("tcp", "192.168.8.40:9100")
	if err != nil {
		println(err.Error())
	}
	defer socket.Close()

	p := escpos.New(socket)
	p.SetConfig(escpos.ConfigEpsonTMT20II)

	p.Bold(true).Size(2, 2).Write("Hello World")
	p.LineFeed()
	p.Bold(false).Underline(2).Justify(escpos.JustifyCenter).Write("this is underlined")
	p.LineFeed()
	p.QRCode("https://github.com/hennedo/escpos", true, 10, escpos.QRCodeErrorCorrectionLevelH)



	// You need to use either p.Print() or p.PrintAndCut() at the end to send the data to the printer.
	p.PrintAndCut()
}

Disable features

As the library sets all the styling parameters again for each call of Write, you might run into compatibility issues. Therefore it is possible to deactivate features. To do so, use a predefined config (available for all printers listed under Compatibility) right after the escpos.New call

p := escpos.New(socket)
p.SetConfig(escpos.ConfigEpsonTMT20II) // predefined config for the Epson TM-T20II

// or for example

p.SetConfig(escpos.PrinterConfig(DisableUnderline: true))

Compatibility

This is a (not complete) list of supported and tested devices.