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Lee Tickett asked Will Macaluso commented

TextPrintJob on Star / Kitchen Printer

We have managed to print to a star printer using; 
PrintJob pj = new StaticOrderPrintJob.Builder().order(mOrder).build();
pj.print(mContext, AccountData.sCloverAccount, printers.get(2));

But this doesn't work; 
new TextPrintJob.Builder().text("Hello world!").build().print(mContext, AccountData.sCloverAccount, printers.get(2));

Is that expected/why? Is there a different technique?
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I would also be interested in an answer to this
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Bump bump...

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Will Macaluso answered
I don't know if it's useful, but you can use the Star Android android SDK to print directly to the kitchen printer (you just call getIp on the printer) https://www.starmicronics.com/support/sdkdocumentation.aspx
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Every print job has a getPrinterCategory() field. This describes the category of printers that the print job can target. TextPrintJob returns RECEIPT (as opposed to ORDER). This means such print jobs can only target category RECEIPT printers. The SP700 is an ORDER printer.

Do you see anything in the logs? It's not good if it fails silently. Seems like the print() method could do some verification that the target printer is the right category. It does not do that now.

There's no reason why one couldn't implement something like this for the SP700, we just didn't. The SP700 is a bit of an anomaly in that it's character based not bitmap. That makes anything we do for it a special case.
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