How To
Setup Your Thermal Receipt Printer
Sensible Cinema Box Office and Concession for Windows
VERSION COMPATIBILITY:
Windows 2000 Professional
and Windows XP using a partial-cut receipt printer printer
driver for Windows. Note, currently we do not have a driver for
HARDWARE INVOLVED:
Citizen CBM-1000, CBM-231, Epson
TM-T88II, Epson TM-T88III, Epson TM-T88IV, Samsung SRP-350,
STEPS TO INSTALL DRIVER:
No matter which printer you are using
you must install the EPSON TM-T88II
Partial cut driver from the
Sensible Cinema Box Office for Windows distribution CD-ROM. For Windows XP,
use the Windows 2000 driver. Driver
installation is accomplished by using the “Add a Printer Wizard” found in the
Windows Control Panel. Using another driver will allow you to print but the
text will not be properly formatted as shown in the example ticket below. If
you do not have the Sensible Cinema CD-ROM, the Epson driver disk is available
under “Support-> Drivers and Utilities” on our web site at http://www.sensiblecinema.com.
Epson’s new “Advanced Printer Driver” available on their web site will not
give you the results shown in the example below.
IN
WINDOWS XP/2000:
1.
Start the Add a
Printer Wizard under Printers and Faxes in the Windows
Control Panel.
2.
Select Local Printer attached to this computer
(unless setting up a networked printer)
3.
Select the LPT1 port for a parallel printer, the
respective com port for a serial printer.
4.
Select the button marked
“Have Disk” and browse to the
Printer driver folder on the Sensible Cinema CD-ROM found under D:\SUPPORT\Printer Drivers\Epson\Printer Drivers
for Windows 2000 and XP. *
5.
If the installation
prompts for a driver disk file *RAS___.DLL” or something like that press the
“OK” button, “Browse” button, then highlight that filename and press “Next.”
Note: If given a warning about
driver compatibility or driver signature, ignore it and choose “Continue
Anyway.” If you wish to use a printer driven cash drawer with this printer, add
a no-cut driver as well.
*(Substitute the drive letter of
your
STEPS
TO CONFIGURE SENSIBLE CINEMA TERMINALS:
1.
Select the printer
type (FGL or ESC/POS) in the Terminal Setup Utility under Ticket Printer Setup. If using this printer for receipts only and a
ticket printer for tickets, leave the Ticket printer
type to FGL and set up this printer
under Receipt Printer Setup. There
you will select the driver to be used when printing receipts.
2.
Select the printer
driver for tickets under Select Driver
Preferences in the Terminal Setup Utility.
3.
For Cash Drawers
attached to receipt printers: Open the Ticket Printer Setup and “Configure
Printer.” In the “Printer Driven Cash Drawer” window of the Ticket Printer
Setup, select the name of the non-cut
driver you installed. Test the drawer open.
This document was created and
added on May 6, 2003. Modified February 2007.