Please help me out on this. My client has requested that the inventory system i developed for her should print customers receipts with thermal printer. I used VB.NET and crystal report for reporting but i dont have idea on printing from crystal report with thermal printer and i have tried googling, no good result. How do i go about this please?

You should look at PrintToPrinter Method

Thanks alot dell_net for your reply. You have really been of great help to me.
Could you please throw more light on the printToPrinter method. God bless u

I saw the example below on Microsoft's website, I hope you'll find it useful.

ReportDocument.PrintToPrinter Method:
Public Overridable Sub PrintToPrinter(ByVal nCopies As Integer, ByVal collated As Boolean, ByVal startPageN As Integer, ByVal endPageN As Integer)

Parameters:
nCopies
Indicates the number of copies to print.
collated
Indicates whether to collate the pages.
startPageN
Indicates the first page to print.
endPageN
Indicates the last page to print.

To print all pages, set the startPageN and endPageN parameters to zero.

The following example sets the report's page margins, selects the printer, and prints the report.

Private Sub PrintReport(ByVal printerName As String)
Dim margins As PageMargins

' Get the PageMargins structure and set the
' margins for the report.
margins = Report.PrintOptions.PageMargins
margins.bottomMargin = 350
margins.leftMargin = 350
margins.rightMargin = 350
margins.topMargin = 350
' Apply the page margins.
Report.PrintOptions.ApplyPageMargins(margins)

' Select the printer.
Report.PrintOptions.PrinterName = printerName

' Print the report. Set the startPageN and endPageN
' parameters to 0 to print all pages.
Report.PrintToPrinter(1, False, 0, 0)
End Sub

@OP
After installing the printer,on the crystal report menu, go to page setup and fit the report to the size of the printer.

The rest should be easy for you to do.

Ok, thank you guys for your quick response. I think i can move on now,