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KP203 Thermal POS printer                                                                                                            User’s manual

 

 

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4 Printer installation 

4.1 Open the package 

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

4.2 Requirements of 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 

4.3 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. 

             

 

4.4 Connect Communication cables 

1)

 

Make sure the printer is power off. 

2)

 

Connect communication cable to the printer’s port, and fix it as plug lag spike (or snap spring). 

3)

 

Connect communication cable to the other side host. 

4.5 Connect to cash drawer 

1)

 

Make sure the printer is power off. 

2)

 

Connect cash drawer to cash drawer port behind the printer. 

  Warning: The Voltage of cash drawer port is 12V. (It cannot connect to telephone cable.) 

Summary of Contents for KP203

Page 1: ...KP203 Thermal Printer User s Manual...

Page 2: ...wer adapter 8 4 4 Connect Communication cables 8 4 5 Connect to cash drawer 8 4 6 Paper roll loading 9 4 6 1 Printing paper type confirmation 9 4 6 2 Loading or change paper roll 9 4 7 Printing self t...

Page 3: ...lel or USB port optional Bluetooth It offers drivers for WINDOWS ANDROID and LINUX operating systems The supported operating systems are as below WINDOWS XP WINDOWS 7 32 64 WINDOWS 8 WINDOWS 10 UBUNTU...

Page 4: ...64K bytes characters Chinese GB18030 24 24 Words figures ASCII 9 17 12 24 User defined Support Code pages Optional international character sets 45 TRADITIONAL CHINESE CHINESE CP437 U S A Standard Euro...

Page 5: ...bitmap is 64K Bar codes 1D UPC A UPC E EAN 8 EAN13 CODE39 ITF CODEBAR CODE128 CODE93 2D QR Code Detection function Sensor Paper out LED indicator Power indicator Green Bluetooth indicator Green Paper...

Page 6: ...se 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...

Page 7: ...Effective printing width 57mm L3 Distance between print head to paper storehouse s left edge fixed width 3 0 3mm L4 Distance between print head to paper storehouse s right edge fixed width 3 0 3mm L5...

Page 8: ...KP203 Thermal POS printer User s manual 6 3 Appearance and components 3 1 Appearance and components...

Page 9: ...rinter status Power indicator Green ON Power on status OFF Power off status Bluetooth indicator Green ON Bluetooth connected OFF Bluetooth disconnected Error indicator Red ON Error status OFF Normal s...

Page 10: ...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 plu...

Page 11: ...s below 4 Draw out a printing paper and leave some on the paper out month then close the storehouse cover Warning Please make sure the paper roll in tense status if not it maybe cause paper jam or oth...

Page 12: ...ge as Simplified Chinese and choose printer to connect PC port 3 Choose the port and model what you need USBxxx corresponds USB port COMx correspondS serial port LPTx corresponds parallel port and cli...

Page 13: ...e catalogue to the filter catalogue of cups This catalogue normally is usr lib cups filter The installation procedure has been written in shell for installing expediently Pls run shell script in termi...

Page 14: ...KP203 Thermal POS printer User s manual 12 2 Click system setting after installing filter 3 Click printer...

Page 15: ...0 com1 in windows corresponds dev ttyS0 in Linux com2corresponds s dev ttyS1 by parity of reasoning Wait for a few minutes after modifying permission you will find serial port in Add printer Choose ba...

Page 16: ...KP203 Thermal POS printer User s manual 14...

Page 17: ...KP203 Thermal POS printer User s manual 15 5 You will realize a searching driver hint when click forward after selecting the port Choose PPD file in the page of choosing driver procedure...

Page 18: ...KP203 Thermal POS printer User s manual 16 6 Choose Printer58 ppd in the catalogue...

Page 19: ...KP203 Thermal POS printer User s manual 17 7 Click Forward button 8 Click apply button...

Page 20: ...KP203 Thermal POS printer User s manual 18 9 Print self test page The driver installs correctly if it can print self test page...

Page 21: ...onfirm Low level is effective 2 DATA0 Data bit is 0 11 BUSY Busy 3 DATA1 Data bit is 1 12 PE Paper out 4 DATA2 Data bit is 2 13 SEL Choose 5 DATA3 Data bit is 3 14 AUTOFEED Change line automatically L...

Page 22: ...sts signal L 0 0 5 V H 3 5 V 2 Cash drawer interface socket uses RJ 11 6P type connector 3 Interface signal definition Pin number Signal function 1 FG Printer cover 2 DRAWER 1 Cash drawer 1 driver sig...

Page 23: ...linking Print head is overheated Power off printer power and wait that print head temperature returns normal Voltage is too high Use assigned voltage to print Voltage is too low Use assigned voltage t...

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