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- 30 April, 2020 at 12:22 pm #48354
Hi,
Now at the stage of testing everything. We can print onto our standard A4 office printer which worksfine (just a bit big). We now have setup our star kitchen printer to work and we can print wp pizza orders to it but not only does it print the order, it spits out half a mile of white paper as if it is printing the rest of an A4 sheet. I have attached a screenshot showing a print preview, if you look close you will see the text of the order at the top and then a huge strip of white underneath. Any idea what is wrong?
https://calderwoodcafe.co.uk/order/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Screenshot-8.png
Thanks30 April, 2020 at 12:57 pm #48355you need to speak to your printer manufacturer. i know nothing about your printer
30 April, 2020 at 1:36 pm #48356Sorted it : )
30 April, 2020 at 2:18 pm #48358happy to hear it.
Do want to share what the issue was here ?
(in case someone else comes across the same issue)10 May, 2020 at 10:11 am #48668Hi Ken, Can you please share how you sorted this. I too have a Star (80mm) printer and having the same issue. Its printing the order and about a meter of blank and at the end the page, the time and date.
How did you get the printer to stop printing at the end of order text.Thanks
6 June, 2020 at 11:40 pm #49714I am looking for a solution too. I don’t have a receipt printer yet, but before I buy one I want to make sure it works.
I’ve read maybe a solution is to change margins to and disable header and footer in the browser (Chrome/Firefox). Maybe you also need to change a small setting in the printer to cut at document instead of page (or the other way around).
Could somebody try this?
Maybe a module fix is needed to end the print with a linefeed or pagebreak.
8 June, 2020 at 7:38 am #49735I’ll get back to you tomorrow as I’m not at work today to see exactly the setting we changed.
16 June, 2020 at 2:07 am #49894I have a star printer and the problem is that you need to set a parameter in the printer driver for windows. I think you will need to disable the header and footer as the printer driver will print the order and then feed to the bottom of the page to print the footer. In does not take into account 72mm wide but treats it as A4 hence you end up with about 8 to 9 feet of printing. It is a simple problem that is overlooked. To overcome the Google print issue I used Automatic Print Manager from Namtuk. This can be set up to print to the receipt printer and kitchen printer at the same time. I the print manager I just print the email body and have increased the point size of the print out to 4 so people with bad sight can read the order.
When it displays in the print driver it will show a small receipt with the footer at the bottom don worry this is a function of the printer driver. I wasted about 2 days on trying to configure google print but the simple change in the driver fixed this. sanctuaryparkpizza.com.au is the simple pizza website.16 June, 2020 at 2:09 am #49905@cleerapps
thanks for sharing this here (FYI: i deleted your second post, as it’s a duplicate)16 June, 2020 at 10:51 am #49914We firstly had to download the star mCollection printer utility and install to allow windows to see the printer que for the kitchen printer. http://www.starmicronics.com/support/default.aspx?printerCode=StarPRNT_for_mCollection
The first time we printed it printed the order and 10 feet of blank paper as above. Under the printer options/more options we had the paper size set at 72mm x receipt (the x receipt seems to instruct the printer to stop at the end of the text), scaling set at 115% and the margins set at custom and played around with that for a while.
KEnny
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