原始打印直接打印到USB打印机,绕过Windows后台打印程序

时间:2011-06-09 16:27:35

标签: windows printing zebra-printers

我正在尝试使用Zebra TTP8200热敏打印机。对于我的应用程序,我需要连续打印绘图仪类型跟踪,直到用户点击停止按钮。我玩过ZPL语言,我可以成功生成位图数据,并通过输出ZPL作为原始数据,一次一行(或几行)转储我的位图。

我正在使用一些Microsoft demo code将原始数据输出到打印机,这很有效,只有一个问题:假脱机程序。事实证明,每次使用MS rawprn.exe代码输出一些数据时,它实际上都是假脱机作为打印作业,然后传输到打印机。通过假脱机程序需要10秒钟,显然太慢了。在驱动程序中禁用假脱机没有帮助,这只是意味着当作业通过假脱机程序并打印完成时程序挂起。

有没有办法绕过假脱机程序并直接输出数据到USB打印机?到目前为止,我的研究结果并未出现在Windows API中。理想情况下,我希望能够像使用串行打印机一样使用打印机 - 打开端口并将数据推入。

非常感谢任何提示!

4 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:2)

如果USB打印机可用作COM端口,则只需写入COM端口即可。像这样,从DOS提示符:

dir > com1

前一个示例将dir命令的结果输出到打印机。

或者,这是另一个例子:

copy file.txt com1

前一个示例会将file.txt的内容输出到打印机。

输出格式正确的ZPL数据将比纯文本更难。不过,我已经使用Ruby(以及Epson / ESC命令)从Linux开始工作。

答案 1 :(得分:2)

  

有没有办法绕过假脱机程序并直接输出数据   USB打印机?

是的,绝对的。它内置于大多数操作系统中,通过USB进行原始打印比以太网和COM / LPT稍微明显一点。请注意,许多应用程序(如记事本)无法打印原始应用程序,因此您的应用程序也需要支持此功能。

  1. 为USB打印机安装适当的驱动程序。检查打印机属性以查看它正在使用的USB端口。它可能是USB001等。
  2. 使用“设备和打印机”,添加第二台打印机。本地端口,选择刚刚创建的端口(即USB001)注意:某些版本的Windows有一个自动检测的复选框,如果有,请取消选中此项。
  3. 制造商:Generic,Printer:Generic / Text Only
  4. 使用当前安装的驱动程序
  5. 为打印机命名,使其与已创建的名称区别开来,即Zebra TTP8200 Raw。
  6. 不要分享
  7. 不打印测试页,完成
  8. 现在使用原始打印应用程序,使用新创建的打印机。

    P.S。 这些说明也可以在这里获得,并附有截图,作为Java开源原始打印教程的一部分。该项目还为其他平台(Ubuntu,OS X)提供了教程。

    http://qzindustries.com/TutorialRawWin

    -Tres

答案 2 :(得分:0)

C#中的以下类是我从Microsoft知识库文章中改编的。此类中有一些方法可以将打印作业作为stringbyte[]发送。请注意,有一些对log4net的引用,可以使用您选择的日志框架删除/替换。 :

/// <summary>
/// Class used to aid in sending raw printer data (PS, PRN, etc) directly to the printer.
/// This class was taken from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322091
/// </summary>
public class PrintQueueUtility
{
    private static ILog log = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(PrintQueueUtility));

    [DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint = "OpenPrinterA", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Ansi, ExactSpelling = true, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
    public static extern bool OpenPrinter([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string szPrinter, out IntPtr hPrinter, IntPtr pd);

    [DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint = "ClosePrinter", SetLastError = true, ExactSpelling = true, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
    public static extern bool ClosePrinter(IntPtr hPrinter);

    [DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint = "StartDocPrinterA", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Ansi, ExactSpelling = true, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
    public static extern bool StartDocPrinter(IntPtr hPrinter, Int32 level, [In, MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStruct)] DOCINFOA di);

    [DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint = "EndDocPrinter", SetLastError = true, ExactSpelling = true, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
    public static extern bool EndDocPrinter(IntPtr hPrinter);

    [DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint = "StartPagePrinter", SetLastError = true, ExactSpelling = true, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
    public static extern bool StartPagePrinter(IntPtr hPrinter);

    [DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint = "EndPagePrinter", SetLastError = true, ExactSpelling = true, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
    public static extern bool EndPagePrinter(IntPtr hPrinter);

    [DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint = "WritePrinter", SetLastError = true, ExactSpelling = true, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
    public static extern bool WritePrinter(IntPtr hPrinter, IntPtr pBytes, Int32 dwCount, out Int32 dwWritten);

    /// <summary>Method which sends a <see langword="byte"/> array to a printer queue with a specific document name.</summary>
    /// <param name="bytes">Byte array to send to the printer.</param>
    /// <param name="printerName">Name of the printer to send the <paramref name="bytes"/> to.</param>
    /// <param name="documentName">The document Name.</param>
    /// <returns><see cref="bool"/> indicating whether or not the method succeeded at adding something to the print queue.</returns>
    public static bool SendBytesToPrinter(byte[] bytes, string printerName, string documentName)
    {
        bool success;

        // Allocate some unmanaged memory for those bytes into an unmanaged pointer.
        IntPtr unmanagedBytes = Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem(bytes.Length);

        // Copy the managed byte array into the unmanaged array.
        Marshal.Copy(bytes, 0, unmanagedBytes, bytes.Length);

        // Send the unmanaged bytes to the printer.
        success = SendUnmanagedBytesToPrinter(unmanagedBytes, printerName, documentName, bytes.Length);

        // Free the unmanaged memory that you allocated earlier.
        Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(unmanagedBytes);

        return success;
    }

    /// <summary>Method which sends a string to the printer queue with a specific document name.</summary>
    /// <param name="data"><see cref="String"/> data to send to the printer.</param>
    /// <param name="printerName">Name of the printer to send the data to.</param>
    /// <param name="documentName">Name of the document in the printer queue.</param>
    /// <returns><see cref="bool"/> indicating whether or not the method succeeded at adding something to the print queue.</returns>
    public static bool SendStringToPrinter(string data, string printerName, string documentName)
    {
        bool success;
        IntPtr unmanagedBytes;

        // How many characters are in the string?
        var characterCount = data.Length;

        // Assume that the printer is expecting ANSI text, and then convert
        // the string to ANSI text.
        unmanagedBytes = Marshal.StringToCoTaskMemAnsi(data);

        // Send the converted ANSI string to the printer.
        success = SendUnmanagedBytesToPrinter(unmanagedBytes, printerName, documentName, characterCount);
        Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(unmanagedBytes);

        return success;
    }

    private static bool SendUnmanagedBytesToPrinter(IntPtr unmanagedBytes, string printerName, string documentName, int count)
    {
        int error; 
        int written;
        IntPtr printer;
        var di = new DOCINFOA();
        var success = false;

        di.pDocName = documentName;
        di.pDataType = "RAW";

        // Open the printer.
        if (OpenPrinter(printerName.Normalize(), out printer, IntPtr.Zero))
        {
            // Start a document.
            if (StartDocPrinter(printer, 1, di))
            {
                // Start a page.
                if (StartPagePrinter(printer))
                {
                    // Write the bytes.
                    success = WritePrinter(printer, unmanagedBytes, count, out written);
                    EndPagePrinter(printer);
                }

                EndDocPrinter(printer);
            }

            ClosePrinter(printer);
        }

        // If you did not succeed, GetLastError may give more information
        // about why not.
        if (!success)
        {
            error = Marshal.GetLastWin32Error();

            log.ErrorFormat("Sending bytes to printer {0} failed. Last Win32 error = {1}", printerName, error);
        }

        return success;
    }

    // Structure and API declarations:
    [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet = CharSet.Ansi)]
    public class DOCINFOA
    {
        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)]
        public string pDocName;

        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)]
        public string pOutputFile;

        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)]
        public string pDataType;
    }

答案 3 :(得分:0)

感谢您的评论。

经过多次挖掘后,我发现this interesting article使用了usbprint.sys提供的Windows打印机功能。通过一些黑客攻击示例代码似乎工作。我想我会走这条路。

文章中给出了最终代码:

/* Code to find the device path for a usbprint.sys controlled
* usb printer and print to it
*/

#include <usb.h>
#include <usbiodef.h>
#include <usbioctl.h>
#include <usbprint.h>
#include <setupapi.h>
#include <devguid.h>
#include <wdmguid.h>

/* This define is required so that the GUID_DEVINTERFACE_USBPRINT variable is
 * declared an initialised as a static locally, since windows does not include it
 * in any of its libraries
 */

#define SS_DEFINE_GUID(name, l, w1, w2, b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, b8) \
static const GUID name \
= { l, w1, w2, { b1, b2,  b3,  b4,  b5,  b6,  b7,  b8 } }

SS_DEFINE_GUID(GUID_DEVINTERFACE_USBPRINT, 0x28d78fad, 0x5a12, 0x11D1, 0xae,
               0x5b, 0x00, 0x00, 0xf8, 0x03, 0xa8, 0xc2);

void SomeFunctionToWriteToUSB()
{
  HDEVINFO devs;
  DWORD devcount;
  SP_DEVINFO_DATA devinfo;
  SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DATA devinterface;
  DWORD size;
  GUID intfce;
  PSP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DETAIL_DATA interface_detail;

  intfce = GUID_DEVINTERFACE_USBPRINT;
  devs = SetupDiGetClassDevs(&intfce, 0, 0, DIGCF_PRESENT |
                             DIGCF_DEVICEINTERFACE);
  if (devs == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
    return;
  }
  devcount = 0;
  devinterface.cbSize = sizeof(SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DATA);
  while (SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces(devs, 0, &intfce, devcount, &devinterface)) {
    /* The following buffers would normally be malloced to he correct size
     * but here we just declare them as large stack variables
     * to make the code more readable
     */
    char driverkey[2048];
    char interfacename[2048];
    char location[2048];
    char description[2048];

    /* If this is not the device we want, we would normally continue onto the
     * next one or so something like
     * if (!required_device) continue; would be added here
     */
    devcount++;
    size = 0;
    /* See how large a buffer we require for the device interface details */
    SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail(devs, &devinterface, 0, 0, &size, 0);
    devinfo.cbSize = sizeof(SP_DEVINFO_DATA);
    interface_detail = calloc(1, size);
    if (interface_detail) {
      interface_detail->cbSize = sizeof (SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DETAIL_DATA);
      devinfo.cbSize = sizeof(SP_DEVINFO_DATA);
      if (!SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail(devs, &devinterface, interface_detail,
                                           size, 0, &devinfo)) {
    free(interface_detail);
    SetupDiDestroyDeviceInfoList(devs);
    return;
      }
      /* Make a copy of the device path for later use */
      strcpy(interfacename, interface_detail->DevicePath);
      free(interface_detail);
      /* And now fetch some useful registry entries */
      size = sizeof(driverkey);
      driverkey[0] = 0;
      if (!SetupDiGetDeviceRegistryProperty(devs, &devinfo, SPDRP_DRIVER, &dataType,
                                            (LPBYTE)driverkey, size, 0)) {
    SetupDiDestroyDeviceInfoList(devs);
    return;
      }
      size = sizeof(location);
      location[0] = 0;
      if (!SetupDiGetDeviceRegistryProperty(devs, &devinfo,
                                            SPDRP_LOCATION_INFORMATION, &dataType,
                                            (LPBYTE)location, size, 0)) {
    SetupDiDestroyDeviceInfoList(devs);
    return;
      }
      usbHandle = CreateFile(interfacename, GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_READ,
                 NULL, OPEN_ALWAYS, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL |
                 FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN, NULL);
      if (usbHandle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
    /* Now perform all the writing to the device ie.
     * while (some condition) WriteFile(usbHandle, buf, size, &bytes_written);
     */
    CloseHandle(usbHandle);
      }
    }
  }
  SetupDiDestroyDeviceInfoList(devs);
}

再次感谢您的建议。