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I am trying to print to a TM-T20II thermal printer so I can print receipts. Here is my code:

from escpos import printer
from escpos import *
import escpos
from escpos import config
import usb.core
import usb.util
import usb.backend.libusb1
from ctypes import c_void_p, c_int

backend = usb.backend.libusb1.get_backend(find_library=lambda x: "libusb-1.0.dll")
backend.lib.libusb_set_option.argtypes = [c_void_p, c_int]
backend.lib.libusb_set_option(backend.ctx, 1)
p = printer.Usb(0x04b8,0x0e15,0,0x82,0x01, backend=backend)

p.text('test')

I am using a usbdk backend, without it I get a 'NotImplementedError: Operation not supported or unimplemented on this platform.' I'm doing this because for my program to work I need to use the default Epson drivers. When I run this code the error I get is:

<File "C:\Users\maxsl\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\usb\core.py", line 234, in get_interface_and_endpoint return self._ep_info[endpoint_address]

KeyError: 1

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

File "C:\Users\maxsl\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\usb\backend\libusb1.py", line 604, in _check raise USBError(_strerror(ret), ret, _libusb_errno[ret])

USBError: [Errno None] Other error>

This error only occurs when I add p.text() in. Finding the printer and everything else is no problem. I also want to say that write() works in the PyUSB module, but it would be much more convenient for me to not have to translate the outputs in my program to the confusing ESC/P language.

I am using Spyder 4 with anaconda (python 3.7) 64-bit, libusb 1.0.22b9, most recent pyusb on github (PyPi version got unimplemented error), and python-escpos 3.0a8. I believe they are all 64-bit as well. I have the libusb1.dll from 64x folder in my System32 and the 86x one in SysWoW64 as recommended. I also have Usbdk installed. Please let me know if you have any ideas to fix or if you need more details. Been googling this for like a week.

rmlockerd
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Isn't it a problem with the printer's USB mode setting?
TM-T20II printer has the modes of USB vender-defined class (COM Port) and USB printer class.
The VID/PID is USB vender-defined class=0x04b8:0x0202 and USB printer class=0x04b8:0x0e15 respectively.

TM-T20II Technical Reference Guide page 89

You should be able to change it with the printer's setting utility.
Alternatively, try changing the PID designation to 0x0202 as is, or try communicating as a COM port instead of a raw USB device.

Or it is possible that the advanced printer driver or Windows print spooler is already using the device and other programs cannot be used.
If the device driver is installed, try uninstalling it.

kunif
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  • ところで、僕は二年間で川越市に留学しましたよ。西武文理っていう高校に通っていたのです。kunifの住んでいるところに近いですね！ – maxxslatt Jul 12 '20 at 02:43
  • Well, from the scale of the earth, it's overwhelmingly close. But therefore the world may be surprisingly connected. – kunif Jul 12 '20 at 07:01
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For anyone else with the same problem as me, what I did was I installed Epson's TM Virtual Port Driver and set the printer to a COM port. I then had to go into the printer's settings and manually change the port to the virtual one. I then altered my code to this:

from escpos import printer



pr = printer.Serial('COM2')


data= '''
hello world
'''

pr.text(data)
pr.close()

And it finally worked! You can see I cut my code down quite a bit. It turns out I don't even need to change the backend. So strange Usb doesn't work but serial does. As long as it works though! Thanks to kunif for the guidance to my solution, never even considered checking the serial ports.

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