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Poor Quality of Barcode Printing on Thermal Printer


Dear Sir/Madam,
I have used your demo Barcode VB6.0 ActiveX Control in my VB project. Everything worked fine until I tried on Thermal Printer (58mm width). It is ESC/POS EPSON commands-compatible Printer. When I Print on other Printers, the barcode quality is good and readable by Barcode Scanner. But, If I print on Barcode Thermal Printer, it seems a little blurred (both barcode and some images) and not readable by the scanner.

Me.PrintForm
Printer.EndDoc

Instead of creating Barcode in VB form and sending it to the Thermal printer, If I create a barcode directly on the Thermal Barcode using ESC/POS commands, the Barcode is very clear and readable by Barcode Scanner. So, Printer quality is not a problem but sending quality is not good. Thermal Printer Resolution = 203 dpi.
Any solution for this issue?
thank you

Operating System: Windows 7 32 bit

Application: MS VB 6.0

08-31-18     6.2 year(s) ago    

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The issue is that PrintForm does not work well with thermal printers. IDAutomation does not suggest using PrintForm, instead the barcode should be printed directly from the control, for example:
Private Sub PrintDirect_Click()
Printer.PaintPicture BarCode1.Picture, 2048, 1024
Printer.EndDoc
End Sub

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