can a credit card printer be used on a pc

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• Apr 21, 2005

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I have a VRP 2000 crdit card printer made by verifone. It has an 8 pin connector that says rs232 can this be used as a receipt printer on my PC? Any help would be appreciated.
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RadRay

 

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• Apr 21, 2005

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You may want to contact the manufacture for this question:

http://www.verifone.com/index.cfm

 

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• May 6, 2005

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Unregistered said:

I have a VRP 2000 crdit card printer made by verifone. It has an 8 pin connector that says rs232 can this be used as a receipt printer on my PC? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
RadRay

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i have been trying to do the same
i have not had much success
[email protected]
i can tell you what will not work

 

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• May 6, 2005

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Try a generic printer as a driver (if you printing from Windows) and conectit to your serial port 1 if you choose COM1 etc.

I have tried some other manufacturers and it works.

To have a special formatting is more complicated.

 

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• May 7, 2005

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what kind of 8-pin connector?
RS232 connector is usually 9-pin...