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/bow/drivers.htm.
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.