From 36bbb6690f6a5327c537f12d7ec4bb74b682d4fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Kanzler <dev@pkanzler.de>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2020 22:34:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] handle socket error when closing

---
 src/escpos/printer.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/escpos/printer.py b/src/escpos/printer.py
index 59bacad..47834f6 100644
--- a/src/escpos/printer.py
+++ b/src/escpos/printer.py
@@ -242,7 +242,10 @@ class Network(Escpos):
     def close(self):
         """ Close TCP connection """
         if self.device is not None:
-            self.device.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
+            try:
+                self.device.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
+            except socket.error:
+                pass
             self.device.close()