AKAR's picture
Aug 10, 2013
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Reputation: 2

Unicode letters in ticket printer

Hello everyone, 

At first i'd like to tank the author and all the working team for this great application. I'm new here and during tests i needed to print the ticket with ticket printer, but after printing it print strange symbols only... My ticket is in unicode, can you plese tell me what character set must i use? Or what am i doing wrong?

Thank you in advance

 

P.S. Sorry if this question is duplicated, also the printer is POS88v

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JohnSCS
Aug 10, 2013
Reputation: 271

You can find the character set code here for most languages http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page

Try 437. It's the standard character set. By default SambaPOS uses 857 which is the Turkish set. 

AKAR's picture
AKAR
Aug 31, 2013
Reputation: 2

Thank you for answer, but changing to 437 didn't help me...

 found this page, but 65001 also doesn't work

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317756%28v=vs....

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best answer
emreeren
Aug 31, 2013
Reputation: 595

Print a test page on your printer. That should print current printer configuration. Check which character set printer is set to. Update Character Set setting to the same value with printers.

Generally test page prints by holding feed button while switching printer on. If it does not work contact seller for help.

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edominguez
Jan 02, 2014
Reputation: 17
  • Hi, in my case it works to follow what emre suggested. I discovered that my printer was configure for chinese characters, after do the procedure of turning off and turning on pushing the feed button, in change the configuration to international and it started to print the correct characters.
  • thanks for the suggestion
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estario
Aug 21, 2015
Reputation: 1

Hello,

I have a simmilar problem.

I want to print Bulgarian (Cyrillic) characters, but when I try it only prints out ???? instead of Bulgarian letters. I tried changing the  character set. to Bulgarian - 866. By holding the feed button Iswitched the printer from Chinese to ASCII mode, but still it doesn't print out Cyrillic symbnols, but some strange letters.

I don't think the problem is with the printer because when I print cyrillic characters from notepad it appears perfectly normal.

My printer is NT-58H - http://www.zjiang.com/product_show.asp?id=601 

This are the settings of my ticket printer in Samba.

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