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I am experiencing very slow printing of labels (including barcodes) in vb.net to a thermal printer (TOSHIBA TEC B-SA4T) especially when I have to create several tags (each slightly different) in one batch. &nbsp;<br />
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Can anyone help me out and maybe suggest a better alternative? &nbsp;I have read a few articles which stipulate that vb.net is slower than vb6 when it comes to printing (I don’t want to downgrade to vb6). &nbsp;<br />
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Current benchmark with VB 6 the object prints after 1 second, with a vb.net command (printDocument) prints after 3 seconds. <br />
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How to write to barcodes 128 or QR codes in TOSHIBA TEC printer using native fonts, what should I reference? <br />
TEC-Barcode code128 is not visible in my Visual Studio 2012.
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I am experiencing very slow printing of labels (including barcodes) in vb.net to a thermal printer (TOSHIBA TEC B-SA4T) especially when I have to create several tags (each slightly different) in one batch.  

Can anyone help me out and maybe suggest a better alternative?  I have read a few articles which stipulate that vb.net is slower than vb6 when it comes to printing (I don’t want to downgrade to vb6).  

Current benchmark with VB 6 the object prints after 1 second, with a vb.net command (printDocument) prints after 3 seconds. 

How to write to barcodes 128 or QR codes in TOSHIBA TEC printer using native fonts, what should I reference? 
TEC-Barcode code128 is not visible in my Visual Studio 2012.

VB.NET - Slow Printing of Labels to a Thermal Barcode Printer

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