POS for .Net print formatting - can't use escape character (char)27

Question

I figured out how to print basic text to our POS printer, but I can\'t figure out how to get the escape characters to work (for bold, text alignment, etc). For now I\'m just tes

Answer 1

Hi just found out this answer and this works for me. try this one.

string Bold = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(new byte[] { 27, (byte)'|', (byte)'b', (byte)'C' });

or You can simply declare this:

 string ESC = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(new byte[] {27});

then use it in your format or text like this:

ESC + "|cA" -- this is for center. ESC + "|bC" -- for bold.

ESC + "|bC" + "hello world" -- this will bold the string.