add multiple printers at once code?

[ksoufiane]

Hello,

it's possible to use two printers to print the same copy via Ethernet (IP)?
example
Printer 1 $connector = new NetworkPrintConnector("192.168.1.10", 9100);
Printer 2 $connector2 = new NetworkPrintConnector("192.168.1.12", 9100);

Thank you i appreciate your help in advance.

[WilsonicX]

Is it possible to send a cut ticket to a two printers? for example for use in a restaurant: 1/2 ticket for the kitchen and the another 1/2 for the bar, splice the same ticket?

[mike42]

There is no built-in for this, but it's easy enough to implement a PrintConnector which sends data to multiple printers. Do you think something like this would be useful in the library?

<?php
namespace Mike42\Escpos\PrintConnectors;

/**
 * Wrap multiple connectors up, to print to several printers at the same time.
 */
class MultiplePrintConnector implements PrintConnector {
    private $connectors;

    public function __construct(PrintConnector ...$connectors)
    {
        $this -> connectors = $connectors;
    }

    public function finalize()
    {
        foreach($this -> connectors as $connector) {
            $connector -> finalize();
        }
    }

    public function read($len)
    {
        // Cannot write
        return false;
    }

    public function write($data)
    {
        foreach($this -> connectors as $connector) {
            $connector -> write($data);
        }
    }

    public function __destruct()
    {
        // Do nothing
    }
}

And then something like-

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use Mike42\Escpos\PrintConnectors\NetworkPrintConnector;
use Mike42\Escpos\PrintConnectors\MultiplePrintConnector;
use Mike42\Escpos\Printer;

$kitchenPrinter = new NetworkPrintConnector("10.1.2.3", 9100);
$barPrinter = new NetworkPrintConnector("192.168.2.3", 9100);

$connector = new MultiplePrintConnector($kitchenPrinter, $barPrinter);
$printer = new Printer($connector);
$printer -> text("Hello World\n");
$printer -> cut();
$printer -> close();

Error handling would be really sketchy here, better make sure that the chef doesn't switch off the kitchen printer :)

[ksoufiane]

Yes, Multiple Printers feature is really useful.

Thank you for your help, i really appreciate your help in this matter.

[rehankausar]

i have also implement multiple printer and its working good with same data. is there any way to send categories wise receipt print to multiple printers at once.
for example:-
printer A has assigned category A and printer B has assigned category B and i want to print category A to Printer A and printer B to B at once.
apologies for bad English hope you can understand what i mean..

[WilsonicX]

i have also implement multiple printer and its working good with same data. is there any way to send categories wise receipt print to multiple printers at once.
for example:-
printer A has assigned category A and printer B has assigned category B and i want to print category A to Printer A and printer B to B at once.
apologies for bad English hope you can understand what i mean..

did you manage to send the separate categories of data?

I want to send category A to the Printer in the kitchen and category B to the Printer in the Bar, I think we have the same problem.

[shoaibeagledevs]

is it possible ?

how i can print simultaneously data on different printer for example

i have invoice which contain of 3 orders and i want to send each order data to separate kitchen printer .