Equip 351001 58mm Pos Thermal Printer User Manual

equip 351001 58mm POS Thermal Printer

Introduction

The 58mm POS Thermal Printer is a device that offers drivers for WINDOWS and LINUX operating systems. It supports WINDOWS XP, WINDOWS 7 32/64, WINDOWS 8 / 10 / 11, UBUNTU 12.04 32/64, and UBUNTU 14.04 32/64 operating systems.

Main Features

• With auto-cutter
• Low noise and high printing speed
• Easy paper loading
• Easily use and maintain
• Support continuous paper printing
• Compatible with many kinds of paper width
• With cash drawer interface
• Interface: USB, Ethernet

Specification

Printing Method

The printer uses a thermal printing method with a resolution of 203DPI and 8 dots/mm. It has a printing width of 48mm (384 dots) and a printing speed of 85 mm/s.

Interfaces

The printer supports cash drawer, USB, and Ethernet interfaces.

Paper Requirement

The printer supports different types of paper with a maximum width of 80mm. The paper thickness should be easy to load, and the diameter should be appropriate for the printer. The printer also has a paper-cutting function.

Physical Characteristics

• Type: Thermal POS printer
• Width: 80mm (max.)
• Thickness: N/A
• Diameter: Appropriate for printer
• Paper loading: Easy paper loading
• Paper cutting: Yes
• Operating condition: Windows WIN7/WIN8/WIN10/Vista/XP/2000,
  Ubuntu 12.04 32/64, Ubuntu 14.04 32/64
• Storage condition: N/A
• Outline dimension: N/A
• Weight: N/A
• TPH life: 50km
• Cutter life: 1,000,000 times
• Motor life: 360,000 hours

Software Function

The printer supports different density dots and image printings, grating bitmap printing, and download bitmap printing (each bitmap size should be less than 64K, and the total capacity of download bitmap is 64K). The printer also supports various code pages, including ESC/POS-compatible commands.

Driver Procedure

The printer supports different driver procedures, including CP775, WCP1254[Turkish], WCP1255[Hebrew], WCP1256[Arabic], WCP1258[Vietnam], ISO-8859-2[Latin 2], ISO-8859-3[Latin 3], ISO-8859-4[Baltic], ISO-8859-5[Cyrillic], ISO-8859-6[Arabic], ISO-8859-7[Greek], ISO-8859-8[Hebrew], ISO-8859-9[Turkish], ISO-8859-15 [Latin 3], and Thai2.

Chart Bar Codes Detection Function LED Indicator

The printer supports UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, EAN13, CODE39, ITF, CODEBAR, CODE128, CODE93, and QR Code. The printer also has LED indicators for paper out, cover opened, paper will be lack (optional), and un-take out printed paper (optional). The LED indicator is green for paper out and red for errors.

Appearance and Components

The printer comes with an appearance and components manual that details the physical features of the printer. It also includes an indicator and buzzer instruction manual that explains how to use the printer’s LED indicators and buzzer.

Product Usage Instructions

1. Make sure that the printer is connected to a power source.
2. Load the appropriate paper into the printer’s paper tray.
3. Connect the printer to your computer using the USB or Ethernet interface.
4. Install the appropriate driver for your operating system.
5. Open the application that you want to print from.
6. Select the 58mm POS Thermal Printer as your printing device.
7. Adjust the printing settings as necessary.
8. Click on the print button to start printing.

Introduction

Brief introduction: Equip® 351001 is a thermal POS printer with an Optional auto-cutter. It has good printing quality, high printing speed and high stability, which is widely used in POS system, food service industry, and many other fields. It offers drivers for WINDOWS and LINUX operating systems. The supported operating systems are as below:

• WINDOWS XP
• WINDOWS 7 32/64
• WINDOWS 8 / 10 / 11
• UBUNTU 12.04 32/64
• UBUNTU 14.04 32/64

Main features

1. With auto-cutter
2. Low noise and high printing speed
3. Easy paper loading
4. Easily use and maintain
5. Support continuous paper printing
6. Compatible with many kinds of paper width
7. With a cash drawer interface
8. Interface: USB, Ethernet

Specification

Printing material requirements

Paper parameters

1. Paper type: thermal receipt paper/thermal black mark paper
2. Paper width: 57±0.5 mm
3. Paper roll diameter: 80 mm (Max.)
4. Paper thickness:0.065 ~ 0.10mm

Paper using attention

Note:

1. Please use good quality paper, otherwise, it will effect printing quality and even reduce printer head life.
2. Don’t make the paper stick on axis.
3. Paper will be fading out or reduced thermal sensitivity if it is polluted by chemicals or oil, which will affect printing effects.
4. Don’t use nail or hard things to clash with printing paper, otherwise, it will be fade out.
5. Paper will be fading out if the environment temperature exceeds 70°C. So please take note the temperature, humidity and illumination effects.

Printing and paper-cutting position

Printing position

• Paper storehouse’s width: 59±0.5mm
• Effective printing width: 57mm
• Distance between print head to paper storehouse’s left edge (fixed-width): 3±0.3mm
• Distance between print head to paper storehouse’s right edge (fixed-width): 3±0.3mm
• Left margin: Default is 4mm
• Printing area width: it is set by commands (refer to programming manual). The default is 48mm. L7-Right margin: Default is 4mm.

Paper cutting position

Appearance and components

Appearance and components

1. Power switch
2. Cover of cutter
3. Paper cover’s opening button
4. Feed button
5. Indicator(Power/Error/Paper out)
6. The mouth of paper out
7. Paper bin cover
8. Bottom of printer
9. Communication ports

Function instruction of components 

1. Power switch Press “O” side to power off, press “I” side to power on.
2. Power indicator(green) The indicator is on when power on, and it is off when power off.
3. Error indicator (Red) Error indicator is on when it detects error. Such as: paper out, upper cover is open and cutter is stocked.
4. Paper indicator(red) Paper out indicator is on when it detects the paper is out. Please put a new paper roll to printer inside then.

Indicator and buzzer instruction

Function instruction of indicators and buzzer

Note: Printer detects printer head temperature via thermal resistance. It will cut off print head power and stop printing if print head is overheat. The print head protection temperature is 80℃.

Printer installation

Open the package:Please make sure everything is in good status when you open the package. Otherwise, please contact to the distributor in time.

Requirements of the installation position

1. Put the printer on a stably place.
2. Let the printer far away from water, fire, and sunlight.
3. Avoid to put it on oscillatory and impassive place.
4. Make sure to connect printer with ground safety

Connect to power adapter

1. Make sure the printer is power off.
2. Connect power adapter’s DC output plug to the printer.
3. Connect power adapter’s AC input plug to a power outlet.
4. Please be careful to operate correctly when plug out the plug of power cord to avoid damage.

Connect Communication cables 

1. Make sure the printer is power off.
2. Connect communication cable to the printer’s port, and fix it with plug lag spike (or snap spring).
3. Connect communication cable to the other side host.

Connect to cash drawer

1. Make sure the printer is power off.
2. Connect cash drawer to cash drawer port behind the printer.
3. Warning: The Voltage of cash drawer port is 24V. (It cannot connect to a telephone cable.)

4.6 Paper roll loading

Printing paper type confirmation: You can load paper roll to print after  connecting power adapter and communication cables. Please make sure the printing paper type before printing. The default paper type is continuous thermal receipt paper.

Loading or change paper roll 

1. Power off the printer.
2. Slide or press paper roll storehouse button, and then open storehouse cover.
3. Draw out paper roll tap, and load paper roll as below.
4. Draw out a printing paper, and leave some on the paper out month, then close the storehouse cover.
   1. Warning: Please make sure the paper roll in tense status, if not, it maybe cause paper jam or other problems.
5. The status after paper loading

Printing self-test page 

1. Make sure the printer loaded the paper roll correctly.
2. Press down the [FEED] button and hold on, then power on the printer, the printer will print a self-test page.

Set Ethernet port IP Address.
The printer’s Ethernet IP address can be set directly via printer inserted web setting page. The operation steps are as below:

1. Connect printer and PC in a same Ethernet LAN.
2. Print a printer self-test page to get printer recent IP address (self-test page printing operation method refers to “4.7 printer self-test” instruction):
   You can find the printer’s IP address is same as 192.168.1.87 in self-test page“IP address: 192.168.1.87”
3. Set network card IP address in PC and printer IP address as different IP address in the same network segment.(Such as 192.168.1.xxx, xxx is a number among 1 to 254)；
4. Please enter address “http://printer IP address” in browse of PC after making sure that printer connects with Ethernet.(e.g.: If printer IP address is “192.168.1.87”, please enter “http://192.168.1.87”), then press Enter key,open Ethernet port setting page in browser as below:
5. Click “Configure Interface” link in the left side, then enter the modified target IP and click “save” button to save setting. Click “Reboot” button to reset printer if you want the setting to take effect.
6. Enter the new IP address as the above step 4 procedure, and re-open printer Ethernet port setting web page, then click “Printer Status” link in the left side. And click “Printer Test Page” button to print self-test page, and check the IP Address contents in the self-test page is right or not.

Interface pin definitions
The printer has a cash drawer driver interface and many kinds of communication interfaces: USB and Ethernet ports. USB port and cash drawer interfaces are standard interfaces, and it has serial and parallel ports as optional.
Parallel interface pin definition（DB25M）

USB interface pin definition（standard B type female base)

Pin definition

Power interface pin definition（MPC-3-001B）

1. Electrical specification Driver voltage: DC12V Driver current: Max. 0.8A (within 510ms) Cash drawer status tests signal: “L” = 0～0.5 V ; “H” = 3～5 V
2. The cash drawer interface socket uses an RJ-11 6P type connector;
3. Interface signal definition

Notes:

1. Prohibit socket with power to pull out the communication wire plug.
2. Please avoid to parallel with strong power when wring communication cables.
3. Communication cables use with shielded cables.

Serial port pin definition（DB9F）
Printer serial port is compatible with RS-232, the interface socket is DB9 female socket. User can check interface setting status via printing setting self-test page. Printer default serial interface is set as: baud rate 19200bps, 8 bit data bits, no parity,1 bit stop bit, and the handshakes method is DTR/DSR。

Ethernet interface pin definition（RJ45） 

6 Faults handling

Please refer to the methods as below when printer can’t work normally. Please contact your supplier directly if it still can’t work normally.
Printer does not work

Indicator error and buzzer warning 

Problems when it is printing

Problems when cutting paper 

Paper jam and cutter retraction troubles removal
Please power off if it is a paper jam, and eliminate paper jam in the correct method.

1. Press the paper cover and open it to eliminate paper jam. Then re-install paper roll to power on.
2. Please use the method as below if step 1 cannot open paper cover:

Warning: Do not open the paper roll warehouse cover forcibly when you cannot open it normally if it is paper jam, which to avoid damaging the printer.

1. Make sure the printer power is off.
2. Take off the cutter adjusting cover in vertical direction as photo.
3. Adjust paper-cutter to make the cutter set back to print mechanism completely as photo direction
4. Open paper cover and eliminate paper jam.
5. Install cutter adjusting cover vertically down.
6. Re-loading paper, close the paper cover and then power on.

References

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