Setting up a Thermal Printer for Receipt Printing

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 & currencies symbol may not be supported.

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.

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-500
Bixolon SRP-350III
Citizen CBM1000-II
Citizen CT-S310II
Daruma DR800
EPOS TEP 220M
Epson TM-T88II
Epson TM-T88III
Epson TM-T88IV
Epson TM-T88V
Epson TM-T70
Epson TM-T82II
Epson TM-T20
Epson TM-T20II
Epson TM-T70II
Epson TM-T81
Epson TM-U220
Epson TM-U295 (requires release() to release slip).
Epson TM-U590 and TM-U590P
Epson FX-890 (requires feedForm() to release paper).
Equal (EQ-IT-001) POS-58
Excelvan HOP-E58
Excelvan HOP-E200
Excelvan HOP-E801
Excelvan ZJ-8220
Gainscha GP-5890x (Also marketed as EC Line 5890x)
Gainscha GP-U80300I (Also marketed as gprinter GP-U80300I)
gprinter GP-U80160I
Hasar HTP 250
Metapace T-1
Metapace T-25
Nexa PX700
Okipos 80 Plus III
Orient BTP-R580
P-822D
P85A-401 (make unknown)
Rongta RP326US
Rongta RP58-U
SEYPOS PRP-300 (Also marketed as TYSSO PRP-300)
Silicon SP-201 / RP80USE
Star TSP100 ECO
Star TSP100III FuturePRNT
Star TSP-650
Star TUP-592
SPRT SP-POS88V
Xprinter F-900
XPrinter XP-Q20011
Xprinter XP-Q800
Xprinter XP-80C
Venus V248T
Zjiang NT-58H
Zjiang ZJ-5870
Zjiang ZJ-5890T (Marketed as POS 5890T)
Zjiang ZJ-5890K

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