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    copied!<p>I am writing C# application that need to print data to POS STAR printer using RawPrinterHelper.</p> <p>My printing works fine except when I sending characters like ŽĆČĐŠ. Then I get wrong data printed out.</p> <p>Until now my research give me following results.</p> <p>If I in PowerShell open good old edit and in txt file write my characters (ŽĆČĐŠ) and send that to printer I get print out as I wish</p> <p>I can't that repeat using Notepad</p> <p>How I can in C# encode my sting to looks like that one from command prompt (EIDTor). So when I send data to printer it print Desire fonts as it looks like in Windows environment.</p> <p>I did also try to print using Star driver and their C# sample for sending data directly to printer but without success.</p> <h1>EDIT:</h1> <hr> <p>I did it, and for others Who in generally have troubles printing directly on Star printers using C# here is code for sample app from <a href="http://www.starasia.com/tsp650driverdownload.asp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Star IO Programming Tool</a> for using their driver.</p> <pre><code>using System; using System.Text; using StarMicronics.StarIO; // added as a reference from the "Dependencies" directory // requires StarIOPort.dll, which is copied to the output directory by the Post-Build event namespace TestEnkodera { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { string portName = "LPT1"; string portSettings = string.Empty; string print = string.Empty; //Select code page //Decimal 27 29 116 n print += string.Format("{0}{1}{2}{3}{4}", (char)27, (char)29, (char)116, (char)5, Environment.NewLine); print += "Đ Š Ž Ć Č ž ć č ć \n"; IPort port = null; port = StarMicronics.StarIO.Factory.I.GetPort(portName, portSettings, 10 * 1000); //byte[] command = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(print); //This was orginal code provided by STAR Encoding ec = Encoding.GetEncoding(852); //Here is way to set CODEPAGE to match with printer CODE PAGE byte[] command = ec.GetBytes(print); uint totalSizeCommunicated = WritePortHelper(port, command); StarMicronics.StarIO.Factory.I.ReleasePort(port); Console.ReadKey(); } private static uint WritePortHelper(IPort port, byte[] writeBuffer) { uint zeroProgressOccurances = 0; uint totalSizeCommunicated = 0; while ((totalSizeCommunicated &lt; writeBuffer.Length) &amp;&amp; (zeroProgressOccurances &lt; 2)) // adjust zeroProgressOccurances as needed { uint sizeCommunicated = port.WritePort(writeBuffer, totalSizeCommunicated, (uint)writeBuffer.Length - totalSizeCommunicated); if (sizeCommunicated == 0) { zeroProgressOccurances++; } else { totalSizeCommunicated += sizeCommunicated; zeroProgressOccurances = 0; } } return totalSizeCommunicated; } } } </code></pre>
 

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