Printer Fonts

[synpse]

I've customized the receipts. Everything is printing where/how I want. Now I want some speed out of the thing... We have Epson TM-U220's The default receipt without the "extended graphics" prints fast, but I can't customize that receipt, right? What fonts print out the best/fastest? Or.. What fonts are most like the printer defaults?

And yes, the dots on the %el are even showing up on the "test script" preview.

Thanks for all your help, Scott!


-Mark

[Scott]

Hi Mark,

Any graphical printing on the impact printers will be slow since it is actually printing an image pixel by pixel. When printing in regular mode it is printing characters that are in the printer's built in resident font set. Fonts from Windows have to be sent as a bitmap.

A TM-88 Thermal printer will print graphical slips extremely fast and prints graphical receipts nearly as fast as the character based ones.

I'm not seeing dots on mine, but will try it on a TM-U200 to see if I get them there. We don't have a U220, but the U200 is pretty close.

Scott

[H-Man]

Hey Scott,

I get those little tiny dots too on empty lines in graphics mode. Not a big deal, in fact I never really noticed it until I saw this topic come up here.

[Scott]

Odd... I'm not seeing that at all here. Which printer driver and versions are you guys using? Mine's about a year old (Epson TM-88 IV USB). Maybe something in the updated driver?? I'm looking into this because there is going to be an update in about a month and I'd like to see if it is something that can be fixed.

Scott

[synpse]

Is there any way to customize a receipt and not use the extended graphics/bitmap fonts?


It's awesome to have such awesome support, and someone who cares about the software product they're putting out!

[Scott]

No, the only customizable receipts are graphical based ones.

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I did figure out why you're seeing those pixels. I was running .11 here instead of the .10 release version. Oops! So in other words that will be fixed in the next update. That will hopefully be in a few weeks, if all stays on schedule.

Scott

[crwheelr]

Hi, Chuck form Pizza-Bello.

I was wondering if anyone has setup and willing to share a receipt / makeline printer setup for Epson TM-T20? This is a newer low cost solution to Epson's other dot matrix and thermal printers. I want to get These receipts to show some fields enlarged and bold for easy viewing for the pie makers. also take out/delivery highlighted more.

POS doesn't have a specific driver for the TM-T20.

chuck

[H-Man]

I use a nice short kitchen slip. Here is the custom code to do it.

; TOP SECTION
%el ; empty line after name
%f1 ; Use Font 1 for remainder
%el ; empty line
%cl%dD %dM %dd %dy %d2 ; print date & time
Register: %sn ; print register name
Cashier: %cn ; print cashier name
%po%tbTable: %tb ; print table (if there)
%el ; empty line
%ljTicket #: %on ; order number on LEFT
%nn%rjType: %tp ; type RIGHT same line as order #
; ITEMS SECTION
%el%ln%el ; a couple emty lines, and then a LINE
:For Each Item ; Begin Per Item Layout
%el ; empty line
%po%si%f2####: %si ; spcl instr if present in font 2
%po%si%f1%nn ; change font back to 1
%lj%qt - %it ; Qty - Item
%cl%nf, %nf ; Toppings
:End Item ; end of per item layout
; FOOTER SECTION
%el ; print an empty line
%ln ; print a LINE
%el ; empty line
; right justify totals
;
%el ; empty line
%f3 ; small font
%cl%li ; Center Legal Name
%el%el%el ; empty line
; job end


For the 4 fonts I have:

Font 1: Expressway CD Normal 12, 0 angle
Font 2: Expressway CD Bold 12, 0 angle
Font 3: Arial Narrow Normal 8, 0 angle
Font 4: Expressway CD Normal Italic 10, 0 angle

This keeps only the needed data on the ticket and saves paper.

edit: The special instructions print ABOVE the item that they are for.

[synpse]

BUMP -- In RE: to http://forums.summitcn.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=1554


Anyone having kitchen/ethernet spool/queue printing issues??

We've got some crippling issue.. which just seems to arise when it gets busy. Y'kno.. at the worst possible time.

-Mark

[Scott]

Anyone having kitchen/ethernet spool/queue printing issues??

We've got some crippling issue.. which just seems to arise when it gets busy. Y'kno.. at the worst possible time.

-Mark

My guess is a buffer overrun somewhere.


Scott