usb printing

[elitevenkat]

Hi

I am having an application running in a food court that prints invoice to a blue tooth printer. The client wants to change the printer hardware to one with a USB interface. The tablet is having a usb port. I had searched the forum to find some guidance to implement printing from tablet (os ICS) via the usb port to the usb printer. I was not able to find any helpful link / example code for the same. now my doubt is if is is possible to print to a usb printer directly from the tablet? can any one help me out ?

 

[Erel]

The problem is that you will not find a compatible printer driver.

 

[margret]

I don't know if you have seen this:

Print from Android Phones & Tablets with Epson Connect - Epson America, Inc.

 

[qsrtech]

Have you made any progress printing to USB POS printer?

 

[TheMightySwe]

You send Text strings to a POS printer, you dont need any driver.

I have a TPG A799 POS printer, and on the PC i just send text-data direct to the printer, no driver involved. I'm going to experiment a bit with that this week.

Regards,

Jonas

 

[TomA]

Check out https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dynamixsoftware.printershare&hl=en
At least it looks like it can be done.

 

[vecino]

I have a TPG A799 POS printer, and on the PC i just send text-data direct to the printer, no driver involved. I'm going to experiment a bit with that this week.

Hi, can you explain me how to print it?
Thanks and regards.

 

[Ioan RADU]

hello,
It can be done using USB OTG adapter and a USB-232 adapter only if the device supports OTG.Use examples from B4a forum serial and string lib.