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Toshiba TEC TPCL: looking for basic communication example

I need to write some code that prints labels using Toshiba TEC TPCL language. I have language documentation and I found a few SO topics, but everything I found is focused on the language itself, not on how I should communicate with the printer.

I mean, the printer can be connected through serial, usb or network. If the printer is connected through serial, I think I simply need to open the serial port and start sending commands - but with what parameters? For lan maybe I could open a tcp connection to port 9100 and send commands, although I'm not so sure about this. For usb (the connection method I'm actually interested in) I have no clues.

I have some experience with Godex printers, where a dll is provided by Godex that takes care of actual communication, you simply have to call an "open connection" function with the desired connection method (serial, lan, usb) as a parameter.

With Toshiba I can't find anything like that, and I also can't find a usage example that shows the basic communication setup process.

I know that Toshiba provides BarTender (label designing software) that comes with an SDK, but I prefer not to use it, and go with pure TPCL.

Does anyone have experience on this?

Thank you!

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Can you please elaborate a bit more? I searched for "BCP Print for .NET" or "BCPControl.dll" on Google but I didn't find anything...

Disti
– Disti

2024-03-06 17:49:25 +00:00
Commented Mar 6, 2024 at 17:49
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Commented Mar 12, 2024 at 10:22

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