Getting the POS 104 / PRP-085IIIT to print Latin1

Got a new receipt printer for at project I am doing.

Its probably pretty OEM. The only markings it have is POS 104, and possibly PRP-085IIIT and then, perhaps, full name is: PRP-085IIIT-BI-B-UP.

I needed it to print the danish letters. Took me pretty long to figure out that I needed it to go away from two byte character mode (FS .), and use ESC t 6 to select “Western Europe” aka Latin1. Then it prints Latin1 happily.

Small shell script to configure for this (values are octal)

echo -n "\0034.\0033t\0006"

Hex:
1c 2e 1b 74 06

Just wanted to share here, in case anyone else gets such a POS printer.

Advertisement