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Printer Settings
Daniel S edited this page Feb 21, 2023
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- Printer Width: 384
- Printer Type:
- Explicit Initialization: Off (or On when Direct USB Printing is used)
- Force Standard Mode: Off
- Cut After Printing: Off
A lot of cheap 58mm printers you will find on Amazon and other shops are rebranded versions of this Printer. If your printer looks the same or is a generic 58mm printer try the above settings.
- Printer Width: 576
- Printer Type:
- Explicit Initialization: Off (or On when Raw USB Printing is used)
- Force Standard Mode: On
- Cut After Printing: On / Off
- Printer Width: 504
- Printer Type: Serial
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Endpoint:
COM3:57600_N81_2
- On Windows:
COM3
needs to be changed to the COM port that the printer is registered - On Unix:
COM3
should be replaced with/dev/tty.XXXXXX
or something similar of the device -
Warning: Old serial printer tend to have small buffer. The
_2
indicates that a wait of 2 seconds will occur before each data chunk will be sent to the printer. If the printer doesn't finish printing try to increase this value! It seems on Windows a 0 works but on Unix systems a 2 second delay is needed.
- On Windows:
- Explicit Initialization: On
- Force Standard Mode: On
- Cut After Printing: On / Off
A cheap DE-9 RS232-to-USB, DB-25 to DE-9 Adapter and DE-9 Null-Modem will be needed to connect this serial printer to your PC.
Connection: Printer → DB-25 to DE-9 → DE-9 Null-Modem → DE-9 RS232-to-USB → PC
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-232
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_cable
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_modem
- Printer Width: 504
- Printer Type: Serial
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Printer Type:
- Windows Direct Printing: Select Printer Name (Setup)
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Serial: Follow
Serial Windows
notes below
- Explicit Initialization: On
- Force Standard Mode: On
- Printer Width: 576
- Printer Type:
- Explicit Initialization: Off / On (on Windows)
- Force Standard Mode: Off / On (on Windows)
- Cut After Printing: On / Off
- Printer Width: 576
- Printer Type:
- Explicit Initialization: Off
- Force Standard Mode: Off
- Cut After Printing: On / Off
- Printer Width: 384
- Printer Type:
- Explicit Initialization: Off
- Force Standard Mode: Off
- Cut After Printing: On / Off
- Printer Width: 509 (3 inch paper), 360 (2 inch paper)
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Printer Type:
- Windows Direct Printing: Select Printer Name (More info below)
- Explicit Initialization: Off
- Force Standard Mode: Off
- Cut After Printing: On
Only Windows Driver Available. You need to download and install the driver and follow the following guide to enable ESC/POS mode.
- Printer Width: 576
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Printer Type:
- Raw USB Printing: Untested
- Windows Direct Printing: Unknown
- CUPS: Untested
- Explicit Initialization: Unknown
- Force Standard Mode: Unknown
- Cut After Printing: On / Off