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TMP58A/P58A Thermal printer                                                                            User

’s Manual

 

 

 

 

TMP58A Thermal Pinter 

  User’s Manual 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 
 
 

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Summary of Contents for P58A

Page 1: ...TMP58A P58A Thermal printer User s Manual TMP58A Thermal Pinter User s Manual contents ...

Page 2: ...allation 8 4 3 Paper roll loading 8 4 3 1 Printing paper type confirmation 8 4 3 2 Loading or change paper roll 9 4 4 indicator 10 5 basic function 12 5 1 Power ON 12 5 2 Power OFF 12 5 3 print self test 12 5 4 Feed 12 5 5 Printer charging 12 6 printer connect and printing 13 6 1 WINDOWS driver installation 13 6 2 Linux driver installation 16 6 4 Printing position 24 6 4 1 Printing position 24 7 i...

Page 3: ...her devices with USB port It offers drivers for WINDOWS and LINUX operating systems The supported operating systems are as below WINDOWS XP WINDOWS 7 32 64 WINDOWS 8 UBUNTU 12 04 32 64 UBUNTU 14 04 32 64 1 2 main features 1 Battery power easy move 2 Low noise and high printing speed 3 Easy paper loading 4 Easily use and maintain 5 Support label paper and continuous paper printing 6 Compatible with...

Page 4: ...TMP58A P58A Thermal printer User s Manual 2 2 product introduction 2 1 product appearance Views ...

Page 5: ...TMP58A P58A Thermal printer User s Manual 3 Note The power indicator light is red when it is running the battery is red and the GPRS indicator is blue accessories battery charger paper roll mini USB ...

Page 6: ...TMP58A P58A Thermal printer User s Manual 4 Note Please make sure everything is in good status when you open the package Otherwise please contact to distributor in time ...

Page 7: ...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 Europe Katakana CP850 Multilingual CP860 Portuguese CP863 Canadian French CP865 Nordic WCP1251 Cyrillic CP866 Cyrillic 2 MIK Cyrillic Bulgarian CP755 East Europe Latvian 2 Iran CP862 Hebrew WCP1252 Latin ...

Page 8: ...oad 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 Red Battery indicator Red Bluetooth indicator Blue Thermal paper Type Standard thermal receipt paper Width 57 5 0 5mm Thickness 0 065 0 1mm Diameter 38mm Max Physical characteristics Paper loading Easy paper loading Paper cutting Manu...

Page 9: ...e 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 chemical or oil which will affect printing effects 4 Don t use nail or hard things to clash printing paper otherwise it will be fade out 5 Paper will be fading out if the environment temp...

Page 10: ...llatory and impassive place 4 Make sure to connect printer with ground safety 4 2 preparation before use 4 2 1 battery installation 4 3 Paper roll loading 4 3 1 Printing paper type confirmation You can load paper roll to print after power ON and connecting communication cables Please make sure the printing paper type before printing The default paper type is continuous thermal receipt paper and th...

Page 11: ...9 4 3 2 Loading or change paper roll 1 Power off the printer 2 Turn up the cover 3 According to the figure in the right direction to roll paper bin 4 Draw out a printer paper and leave some on the paper out month then close the storehouse cover ...

Page 12: ... OFF Printer is power OFF flicker Printer is waiting status Battery indicator OFF Sufficient quantity of electricity flicker Low battery Bluetooth indicator ON Bluetooth connection status OFF No device to connect Bluetooth status Power indicator Battery indicator Bluetooth indicator Buzzer Power ON ON OFF OFF It rings 1 times Power OFF OFF OFF OFF It rings 2 times ...

Page 13: ... flicker OFF It rings 1 times by 10s Bluetooth connect ON OFF ON Low battery 20 OFF Slowly flicker OFF It rings 4 times by 60s Charging battery OFF Quickly flicker OFF It rings 1 times Fully charged ON ON OFF 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 ...

Page 14: ...er loaded paper roll correctly 2 Press down FEED button and hold on then power ON the printer the printer will print a self test page 5 4 Feed Printer in normal working condition press the FEED key The printer paper will running 5 5 Printer charging If the printer battery indicator light green flashing and no out of paper status indicating that the printer is about to running out of electricity if...

Page 15: ...edure the position is Drivers Windows file A printer connected to the computer through the USB cable on the desktop click Cancel Right click PL2303_Prolific_ exe and run as administrator Double click to run in XP system and it needs administrator to run in WIN7 WIN8 After install open device management right click port it will show COMx it is OK ...

Page 16: ...TMP58A P58A Thermal printer User s Manual 14 Install P58A_LG DEVICE EXE select serial select COMx device management PORT shown ...

Page 17: ...TMP58A P58A Thermal printer User s Manual 15 next step if the printer can print self test page the driver is OK ...

Page 18: ...the 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 terminal the run command is sudo install sh If script can not run permission pls run sudo chmod a rwx install sh in terminal and add permission for it ...

Page 19: ...TMP58A P58A Thermal printer User s Manual 17 2 Click system setting after installing filter 3 Click printer 4 Add printer ...

Page 20: ...1 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 baud rate the same as printer s baud rate no parity data bit 8 flow control hardware RTS DTR are okay USB printer needs to connect PC first and then click add printer You will find there is a extra Unknown i...

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Page 22: ...TMP58A P58A Thermal printer User s Manual 20 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 23: ...TMP58A P58A Thermal printer User s Manual 21 6 Choose Printer58 ppd in the catalogue ...

Page 24: ...TMP58A P58A Thermal printer User s Manual 22 7 Click Forward button 8 Click apply button ...

Page 25: ...TMP58A P58A Thermal printer User s Manual 23 9 Print self test page The driver installs correctly if it can print self test page ...

Page 26: ...ve printing width 48mm L3 Distance between print head to paper storehouse s left edge fixed width 4 0 3mm L4 Distance between print head to paper storehouse s right edge fixed width 4 0 3mm L5 Left margin Default is 4mm L6 Printing area width it is set by commands refer to programming manual Default is 48mm L7 Right margin Default is 4mm ...

Page 27: ... define 7 1 micro USB define USB define generally speaking Red Vcc white D green D black GND 7 2 micro USB port B define Pin Name Description 1 VCC 5 VCC 2 D Data 3 D Data 4 GND Ground Pin name Line color 1 VBUS Red 2 D White 3 D Green 4 ID none 5 GND Black ...

Page 28: ...icator flashing Printer is waiting status normal 8 3 problems when it is printing problems Probably reasons solutions Color strips occur on the paper Paper maybe out Load a new paper roll Printing is not clear or have dirty spots Paper roll loading incorrectly Check paper roll loading correctly or not Paper can t meet the requirements Use the recommended thermal paper Print head or printer rubber ...

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