Home Page link  

EPSON POS Receipt Printer TM T88III problem

 

Point-Of-Sale Software - - MS Point Of Sale software discussed here

 Post an article  get this group's latest topics as an RSS feed add this group's latest topics to your My MSN content add this group's latest topics to your My Yahoo content  add this group's latest topics to your Google content  YahooMyWeb Yahoo!  Google Google  Windows Live Favorites Windows Live  del.icio.us del.icio.us  digg digg  Add to Netscape Netscape
Subject Author Date
EPSON POS Receipt Printer TM T88III problem BOYTOYS 02-17-2006
Posted by BOYTOYS on February 17, 2006, 7:50 am
Please log in for more thread options
Hi guys, first post here and hope some of you can help or have
experience

I just bought a new TM88III thermal receipt printer (serial) and a
serial cable from the POS-WAREHOUSE ; i am using RETAIL PLUS 2.0
download/trial version to test out the POS.
I have a PC running Win XP.

When I was testing the POS, I have no problems of the POS software
after a transaction is done, we hit ENTER and it will print out an
invoice from our inkjet printer. This mean the POS program is stable.

I have gone to download the driver software A301.gk (or something like
that) from official EPSON support website and install/configure it. I
selected serial driver, and COM PORT 1 (serial port 1) and install,
then reboot. After that, i do see a printer driver (set as default).

Then when i try to use NOTEPAD to print out a line of numbers, it takes
a long while for anything to come out (5-10 minutes) and it prints out
some Garbage characters. And when i used the POS software, and simulate
a transaction, hit ENTER/PRINT, the hour glass appears, and like 5-10
minutes, then a receipt prints out with Garbage characters.

I googled some comments, and tried "deactivating" ADVANCED PRINTING
FEATURES, PRINT DIRECT TO PORT, none of them seem to improve the
situation.

It doesn't print properly and it takes a long time ....does anyone of
you have any advise ?

Tks in advance.
Daniel

I have implemented BusinessVision with TM U200 receipt printer before
with my last POS and i found this time round. it is hard.


Posted by Rob on February 17, 2006, 9:54 am
Please log in for more thread options
BOYTOYS,

You are posting to the Microsoft Retail Management System newsgroup, so my
first advice to you would be to NOT use the Retail Plus 2.0 software.
Secondly the driver you downloaded doesn't look like any OPOS/Windows driver
I've seen. Are you sure you went to the www.epsonexpert.com website?
You may need to register with them before you download the driver.
OPOS ADK 2.50 https://www.epsonexpert.com/Epson_Assets/OPOSADK250SP4.exe
Windows 3.01f https://www.epsonexpert.com/Epson_Assets/APD_301f.exe

Rob

> Hi guys, first post here and hope some of you can help or have
> experience
>
> I just bought a new TM88III thermal receipt printer (serial) and a
> serial cable from the POS-WAREHOUSE ; i am using RETAIL PLUS 2.0
> download/trial version to test out the POS.
> I have a PC running Win XP.
>
> When I was testing the POS, I have no problems of the POS software
> after a transaction is done, we hit ENTER and it will print out an
> invoice from our inkjet printer. This mean the POS program is stable.
>
> I have gone to download the driver software A301.gk (or something like
> that) from official EPSON support website and install/configure it. I
> selected serial driver, and COM PORT 1 (serial port 1) and install,
> then reboot. After that, i do see a printer driver (set as default).
>
> Then when i try to use NOTEPAD to print out a line of numbers, it takes
> a long while for anything to come out (5-10 minutes) and it prints out
> some Garbage characters. And when i used the POS software, and simulate
> a transaction, hit ENTER/PRINT, the hour glass appears, and like 5-10
> minutes, then a receipt prints out with Garbage characters.
>
> I googled some comments, and tried "deactivating" ADVANCED PRINTING
> FEATURES, PRINT DIRECT TO PORT, none of them seem to improve the
> situation.
>
> It doesn't print properly and it takes a long time ....does anyone of
> you have any advise ?
>
> Tks in advance.
> Daniel
>
> I have implemented BusinessVision with TM U200 receipt printer before
> with my last POS and i found this time round. it is hard.
>



Posted by rick on February 17, 2006, 10:48 am
Please log in for more thread options
Return it and buy a star TSP-700USB use raster drivers

> Hi guys, first post here and hope some of you can help or have
> experience
>
> I just bought a new TM88III thermal receipt printer (serial) and a
> serial cable from the POS-WAREHOUSE ; i am using RETAIL PLUS 2.0
> download/trial version to test out the POS.
> I have a PC running Win XP.
>
> When I was testing the POS, I have no problems of the POS software
> after a transaction is done, we hit ENTER and it will print out an
> invoice from our inkjet printer. This mean the POS program is stable.
>
> I have gone to download the driver software A301.gk (or something like
> that) from official EPSON support website and install/configure it. I
> selected serial driver, and COM PORT 1 (serial port 1) and install,
> then reboot. After that, i do see a printer driver (set as default).
>
> Then when i try to use NOTEPAD to print out a line of numbers, it takes
> a long while for anything to come out (5-10 minutes) and it prints out
> some Garbage characters. And when i used the POS software, and simulate
> a transaction, hit ENTER/PRINT, the hour glass appears, and like 5-10
> minutes, then a receipt prints out with Garbage characters.
>
> I googled some comments, and tried "deactivating" ADVANCED PRINTING
> FEATURES, PRINT DIRECT TO PORT, none of them seem to improve the
> situation.
>
> It doesn't print properly and it takes a long time ....does anyone of
> you have any advise ?
>
> Tks in advance.
> Daniel
>
> I have implemented BusinessVision with TM U200 receipt printer before
> with my last POS and i found this time round. it is hard.
>



Similar ThreadsPosted
Unable to print with EPSON TM-T88III Receipt Printer September 18, 2007, 8:43 am
Problems getting EPSON TM-T88III Printer to work August 27, 2005, 6:21 pm
EPSON TM88III PRINTER PROBLEM March 12, 2006, 12:38 pm
EPSON TM-88IV Reciept Printer problem February 8, 2007, 5:17 pm
Epson Receipt Printer July 11, 2005, 4:39 pm
Using Epson receipt printer in MS Word? February 3, 2007, 12:35 pm
Epson Receipt Printer not working in offline mode August 29, 2007, 12:42 pm
Epson TM-T88III change of font June 22, 2005, 6:27 am
Samsung SRP-500 Serial Receipt printer problem February 19, 2007, 7:21 pm
TM-T88III OPOS Font problem January 9, 2006, 3:27 pm

Contact Us | Privacy Policy
This site is not affiliated with Intuit - makers of Quickbooks and Quicken software
This site is not affiliated with Sage Software - makers of Peachtree accounting software
XML SitemapXML Sitemap