Re: Receipt printers and USB interface

[Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio dot com>]

I'll answer what I can below...

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Ericsson, Paul wrote:

> Folks --
>
> We are replacing some of our older Star TSP300 series receipt printers,
> and at this point are thinking that we would go with the Star TSP600
> series, specifically the Star TSP 643 with the autocutter. Good price in
> the mid-$200 range.
>
> Questions for you'all:
>
> 1) Has anyone used this specific 643 or 613 model? What has been your
> experience?
>
> 2) With either the Star product line or other manufacturers, would you
> recommend the auto-cut or manual tear?

There have been ongoing problems with getting auto-cutting to work when
printing directly from Millennium (on a variety of printer makes/models).
It seems that you can get either a) auto-cut and wasted paper, or b)
neither.

>
> 3) The printer interface now comes with parallel, serial, usb or
> ethernet. Our City MIS guys recommend that we go with the USB, and it
> makes sense to me. But knowing how tricky the receipt printing can be
> with Millenium, I wonder about introducing another variable, as we've
> only used serial or parallel printers before with Millenium. Any
> thoughts about USB printers and Millenium?

I believe you have to be on Silver in order to use USB printers easily.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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