Thermal Printers: #
2 types of thermal printers are available in the market:
- Thermal Line Printers. Easy to Install & Use.
- Thermal ESC/POS printers: Complicate to install & use, also some languages & currency symbols may not be supported.
Browser-based printing or Thermal Line Printers or Direct Thermal: (Recommended) #
Thermal line printers also called Direct Thermal, are easy to install & use. Also, they support browser-based printing. For better results use paper with a width of 79mm.
To use a thermal line printer follow these steps:
- Setup the printer on your computer with the appropriate driver which comes with the printer.
- 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.
- In the invoice layout select the Design as Slim
- To disable print dialogue preview, follow the steps mentioned here
You’re now ready to use the printer, no more steps are required.
Thermal ESC/POS printers: #
Setting an ESC/POS thermal printer involves 3 steps:
- Adding a Printer
- Configuring business location to use the added printer.
- Installation Pos Print server.
Configuring Business Location to use printer: #
- Go to Settings -> Business Settings.
- For a particular business location, go to “Settings” in the actions column.
- Change “Receipt Printer Type” to “Use Configured Receipt Printer“
- Select the “Receipt Printers” from the list of Receipt Printers
- Click on Update.
Great, now we’re ready to print on a thermal printer.
Give it a test drive.
Video Guide: #
Follow the steps as mentioned in this video up to 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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
Bixolon SRP-35
Citizen CBM1
Citizen CT-S31
Daruma DR8
EPOS TEP 22
Epson TM-T88II
Epson TM-T88III
Epson TM-T88IV
Epson TM-T88V
Epson TM-T7
Epson TM-T82II
Epson TM-T2
Epson TM-T2
Epson TM-T7
Epson TM-T81
Epson TM-U22
Epson TM-U295 (requires release() to release slip).
Epson TM-U59 and TM-U59
Epson FX-89
Equal (EQ-IT-1) POS-58
Excelvan HOP-E58
Excelvan HOP-E2
Excelvan HOP-E8
Excelvan ZJ-822
Gainscha GP-589
Gainscha GP-U8
Metapace T-1
Metapace T-25
Nexa PX7
Plus III
Orient BTP-R58
Oscar Printers
P-822D
P85A-4
Rongta RP326US
Rongta RP58-U
SEYPOS PRP-3 (Also marketed as TYSSO PRP-3
Silicon SP-2
ECO
Star TSP1
III FuturePRNT
Star TSP-65
Star TUP-592
SPRT SP-POS88V
Xprinter F-9
XPrinter XP-Q2C
Venus V248T
Zjiang NT-58H
Zjiang ZJ-587
Zjiang ZJ-589T (Marketed as POS 589T)
Zjiang ZJ-589K
Printing via Phone/Tablet Bluetooth using Thermal Printer #
In BizModo POS there is no special setup required for printing via mobile Bluetooth using thermal printers. You can print receipts like printing any other documents from your computer/mobile in these printers.