I have the Epson TM'T20ll and I want it to either print the Costa Rican colon symbol ₡ or better yet no currency symbol. I know the printer needs to be reprogrammed. I just don't know where to start. The program displays the symbol with the Spanish language setting, but prints a ? on the receipt. Jerry
How is your Windows language configured?
Please go to Control Panel -> Clock and Region -> Region
In the window that opens click on Additional settings... and then on Currency
Please post a picture of those 2 windows like the one I attached here
Unfortunately the colon symbol is not available in any code page, so you need to create a bitmap of it and upload it to the printer.
Basically what you need to do is to remap the ? character to a custom defined character you design pixel by pixel. You can also remap the ? to a completely white char thereby removing the ?. After that you need to select the user-defined code page which is 255.
You can easily create a custom character and select the user-defined code page by using the TM font runner utility: https://www.epson-biz.com/modules/pos/index.php?page=single_soft&cid=6142
The problem also is that you have to upload the character and switch to the user defined code page everytime you reboot the printer and/or the app.
Otherwise if you change the Region in the settings as shown in the picture you can use other countries' currencies. Unfortunately there is no currency in the world with a similar symbol, like for example the cent symbol.
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2019-06-12
Having no symbol would work the best. Everyone will know it is in colones. I am a newbie at this point. If you guide me to where I can change the ? to white so nothing shows, I will try to figure it out.
Jerry
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I was able to find a workaround, now every non-printable character on Epson printers will be mapped to an empty space instead of a ?.
I released an update (1.14.28) that includes the above fix. See the changelog. Your app will be updated automatically in the next 24 hours. You can see the version you're running in any of the settings pages, on the About tab.
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I have the Epson TM'T20ll and I want it to either print the Costa Rican colon symbol ₡ or better yet no currency symbol. I know the printer needs to be reprogrammed. I just don't know where to start. The program displays the symbol with the Spanish language setting, but prints a ? on the receipt. Jerry
Please can you provide the information I requested?
How is your Windows language configured?
Please go to Control Panel -> Clock and Region -> Region
In the window that opens click on Additional settings... and then on Currency
Please post a picture of those 2 windows like the one I attached here
I attached a screen shot of the language settings, application showing the ₡ symbol and the receipt showing a ? in place of the symbol.
Unfortunately the colon symbol is not available in any code page, so you need to create a bitmap of it and upload it to the printer.
Basically what you need to do is to remap the ? character to a custom defined character you design pixel by pixel. You can also remap the ? to a completely white char thereby removing the ?. After that you need to select the user-defined code page which is 255.
You can easily create a custom character and select the user-defined code page by using the TM font runner utility:
https://www.epson-biz.com/modules/pos/index.php?page=single_soft&cid=6142
The problem also is that you have to upload the character and switch to the user defined code page everytime you reboot the printer and/or the app.
Otherwise if you change the Region in the settings as shown in the picture you can use other countries' currencies. Unfortunately there is no currency in the world with a similar symbol, like for example the cent symbol.
Having no symbol would work the best. Everyone will know it is in colones. I am a newbie at this point. If you guide me to where I can change the ? to white so nothing shows, I will try to figure it out.
Jerry
Ok give me some days to test that utility I'll let you know.
Thank you, Alberto. I love the program. It solves so many problems for me opening a restaurant in Costa Rica.
I was able to find a workaround, now every non-printable character on Epson printers will be mapped to an empty space instead of a ?.
I released an update (1.14.28) that includes the above fix. See the changelog. Your app will be updated automatically in the next 24 hours. You can see the version you're running in any of the settings pages, on the About tab.
It works! Thanks so much