ESC/POS Printer simulator written in Java.
This provide Swing GUI to display receipts and also write content to a file - access through web url.
The idea comes from JavaPos printer simulator and from escpos-tools, a PHP library.
Web access:
java -jar ESCPosPrinterSimulator.jar [port] [filepath] [filesize]
Example:
java -jar ESCPosPrinterSimulator.jar
java -jar ESCPosPrinterSimulator.jar 9100
java -jar ESCPosPrinterSimulator.jar 9100 receipts.txt 10
run as linux / ubuntu background:
java -jar ESCPosPrinterSimulator.jar 9100 receipts.txt 200 & exit
Arguments:
- port: optional - default 9100.
- filepath: path to the written receipt - if available, program will run without GUI.
- filesize: in KB - default 200. If reach the size, file will be deleted then recreated.
Deploy on linux Apache & PHP
java -jar ESCPosPrinterSimulator.jar 9100 /var/www/html/escpos-printer/tmp/9100.txt & exit
access through url:
http://{ip}/escpos-printer/printer-page.php?files=9100.txt