Chapter 3 Application Development Information Application Development Information This chapter describes how to control the printer and gives information useful for printer application development. Overview The following is provided for use of this printer. A dedicated printer driver for Windows is available. For details on how to use the printer driver, see "How to Use the Printer Driver" on page 66 . A Status API that can be used with your applications is available. Though Status API is prepared with the printer driver, you need to install it separately. Various utilities and user’s manuals are available. Dedicated sample programs for the TM-C610 are available.
Use them as a reference for developing applications. This printer cannot use the APD or OPOS/JavaPOS provided by EPSON. 3 Printer Driver The printer driver has the following functions, so it is not necessary to implement them in applications. Barcode and 2D symbol fonts are implemented. The barcode and 2D symbol fonts can be printed using the font replacement function for.NET environment. The barcode and 2D symbol font must be set in advance in the printer driver to use this func- tion.
(See "Barcode Printing" on page 73 and "2D Symbol Printing" on page 79 for details of how to make the setting.) In the .NET environment, a TrueType font is specified to be replaced by barcode and 2D sym- bol fonts. The barcodes and 2D symbols can be printed by specifying a replaced TrueType font from the application. (See "Barcode and 2D Symbol Font Printing on .NET Environment" on page 83 for details about the font replacement function.) 57