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+ | ====== The Tear-off Space ====== | ||
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+ | If you use the Star Micronics SP200 receipt printer, an alternative to setting up a “generic” printer is to download and install the driver software for this device http:// | ||
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+ | Peter E. Johnson | ||
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+ | ===== if you're not getting enough space at the end of the receipt... ===== | ||
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+ | > Ours went from giving a huge space below the receipt to making us press feed | ||
+ | > to get the whole receipt out, what do we need to do? | ||
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+ | Go to the Printers and Faxes option in Windows. | ||
+ | visible from your Start menu, but you may need to go through the | ||
+ | Control Panel to get to it. Right click on the printer in that window | ||
+ | and choose Properties. | ||
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+ | In the tab labelled "Print Options", | ||
+ | Action", | ||
+ | if that is set to "Form Feed / Form Feed" | ||
+ | that it says "Form Feed / Tear Bar" | ||
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+ | While in that interface, you may also want to select the " | ||
+ | Settings" | ||
+ | field is set to "66mm x Receipt" | ||
+ | " | ||
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+ | ====== Serial Printers ====== | ||
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+ | ===== A printer stops part way through lengthy receipts ===== | ||
+ | From the GPLS Knowledgebase... | ||
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+ | === Set the flow control of its COM port to " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Go into " | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | highlighted, | ||
+ | " | ||
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+ | == Original Fix == | ||
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+ | I discovered (and solved!) | ||
+ | printer to work with the Staff Client. | ||
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+ | We had set printer dip switches 6 and 7 to " | ||
+ | correctly with printing long lists of items in //vendor product name removed//. Also, serial printers were | ||
+ | not installed as a printer in Windows - a requirement for //vendor product name removed// - but must be | ||
+ | installed in Windows to work with Evergreen. | ||
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+ | I returned these switches to " | ||
+ | from the http:// | ||
+ | the proper COM port, not LPT). (I don't know of a good way to tell which COM port is | ||
+ | in use for a printer on a given PC, so I just picked COM1 and it happened to work - | ||
+ | but I suppose another COM port might be the one in use for someone' | ||
+ | case a trial-and-error method would be needed to tell which COM port to select.) | ||
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+ | Everything prints just fine with this driver selected. | ||
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+ | (One caveat: If you have a serial printer that you currently use with //vendor product name removed// for | ||
+ | receipt printing, you can't do this ahead of time if you want to continue to print | ||
+ | receipts through //vendor product name removed//. We'll have to do this at the last minute - either late | ||
+ | Friday afternoon after closing or early Tuesday morning. Fortunately, | ||
+ | long to do.) | ||
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+ | - Roberta Wilder | ||
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+ | ===== Other things to try with serial printers ===== | ||
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+ | Switched off printer & disconnected serial cable. Its dip | ||
+ | switches are located under snap-in cover next to serial | ||
+ | connector. Set dip switches 6 and 7 to ' | ||
+ | represents data transmission rate of 1200 bps. Reconnected cable | ||
+ | & switched on printer. | ||
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+ | Opened Windows Device Manager and, under " | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | and changed the "Bits Per Second" | ||
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+ | ===== and another ===== | ||
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+ | Update: | ||
+ | Reset printer dip switches back to default (9600 baud) and | ||
+ | Windows COM port "Bits per second" | ||
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+ | Still in Windows Device Manager, in the COM port's settings tab, | ||
+ | set the "Flow control" | ||
+ | settings. | ||