Thermal Printers:

2 types of thermal printers are available in the market:

1. Thermal Line Printers. : Easy to Install & Use.
2. Thermal ESC/POS printers: Complicate to install & use, also some languages & curriences symbol may not be supported.

Browser based printing or Thermal Line Printers or Direct Thermal: (Recommended)

Thermal line printers also called as Direct Thermal, are easy to install & use. Also they supports browser based printing. For better result use paper with width 79mm.

To use a thermal line printer follow these steps:

1. Setup the printer on your computer with the appropriate driver which comes with the printer.
2. Go to Settings -> Business Locations -> Settings (green color button for each location). Here change the Receipt Printer Type to Browser based printing and save it.
3. In the invoice layout select the Design as Slim
4. To disable print dialogue preview, follow the steps mentioned

You’re now ready to use the printer, no more steps required.

Thermal ESC/POS printers:

Setting an ESC/POS thermal printer involves 3 steps:

1. Adding a Printer
2. Configuring business location to use the added printer.
3. Installation Pos Print server.

Step1: Adding a Printer

1. Add a new printer from Settings -> Receipt Printer
2. Select the appropriate Connection Type:
   1. For “Network” provide the IP Address of the printer.
   2. For “Windows” map the printer to a file and provide the path of the file. You can do this by sharing the printer to your localhost.
      The path will be in this format: 

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   3. For “Linux” your printer device file will be somewhere like /dev/lp
 

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3. Select the capability profile and add character per line supported in the printer.
4. Save the Printer configuration.
5. Check the video below for more details on setting it.

Step2: Configuring Business Location to use printer:

1. Go to Settings -> Business Settings.
2. For a particular business location, go to “Settings” in actions column.
3. Change “Receipt Printer Type” to “Use Configured Receipt Printer“
4. Select the “Receipt Printers” from the list of Receipt Printers
5. Click on Update.

Step3: Installing POS Print Server

For printing via receipt printer, you will need to install a “pos print server” on your local computer from which UltimatePOS is used.

1. Download the server from this link. by clicking on “Download Repository”
2. Unzip the zip file.
3. Rename the unzipped folder to “pos_print_server”.
4. Move the pos_print_server to document root (which is htdocs in XAMPP).
5. Open Command Prompt or also called terminal. And go to the “pos_print_server” directory. You can go to this directory using “CD” command in the command prompt.
6. From the Command Prompt which is now inside pos_print_server directory run the below command:
   php server.php
   After running the command it will start the print server and show a message similar to below:
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7. Now we are ready to go. Try creating a test sell from the pos screen and it should print in your thermal printer. If you haven’t added a printer then follow the steps mentioned in “Step1: Adding a Printer” and it should work.

Great, now we’re ready to print on a thermal printer.

Give it a test drive.

Video Guide:

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ESC/POS Printers

Many thermal receipt printers support ESC/POS to some degree. This driver has been known to work with:

AURES ODP-333
AURES ODP-5

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Bixolon SRP-35

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Citizen CBM1

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Citizen CT-S31

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Daruma DR8

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EPOS TEP 22

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Epson TM-T88II
Epson TM-T88III
Epson TM-T88IV
Epson TM-T88V
Epson TM-T7

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Epson TM-T82II
Epson TM-T2

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Epson TM-T2

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Epson TM-T7

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Epson TM-T81
Epson TM-U22

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Epson TM-U295 (requires release() to release slip).
Epson TM-U59

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Epson FX-89

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Excelvan HOP-E58
Excelvan HOP-E2

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Excelvan ZJ-822

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Gainscha GP-589

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gprinter GP-U8

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Hasar HTP 25

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Metapace T-1
Metapace T-25
Nexa PX7

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Okipos 8

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Plus III
Orient BTP-R58

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P-822D
P85A-4

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Rongta RP326US
Rongta RP58-U
SEYPOS PRP-3

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Silicon SP-2

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1 / RP8

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Star TSP1

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Star TSP1

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III FuturePRNT
Star TSP-65

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Star TUP-592
SPRT SP-POS88V
Xprinter F-9

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XPrinter XP-Q2

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Xprinter XP-Q8

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Xprinter XP-8

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Venus V248T
Zjiang NT-58H
Zjiang ZJ-587

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Zjiang ZJ-589

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T (Marketed as POS 589

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Zjiang ZJ-589

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