Point Of sales: Omolead POS barcode printer support

A barcode printer is used to print barcode labels or tags that are used to print labels for physical products or to label retail items or label cartons.

Omolead support any barcode printer having Direct Thermal print technology

Setting up a Thermal Printer for Receipt Printing

Thermal Printers:

2 types of thermal printers are available in the market:

1. Thermal Line Printers.: Easy to Install & Use.
2. Thermal ESC/POS printers: Complicate to install & use, also some languages & curriences symbol may not be supported.

WE RECOMMEND USING A THERMAL LINE PRINTER FOR THE EASE OF SETUP AND GOOD PRINT QUALITY.

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Browser-based printing or Thermal Line Printers or Direct Thermal: (Recommended)

Thermal line printers also called as Direct Thermal, are easy to install & use. Also they supports browser based printing. For better result use paper with width 79mm.

To use a thermal line printer follow these steps:

1. Setup the printer on your computer with the appropriate driver which comes with the printer.
2. Go to Settings -> Business Locations -> Settings (green color button for each location). Here change the Receipt Printer Type to Browser based printing and save it.
3. In the invoice layout select the Design as Slim
4. To disable print dialogue preview, follow the steps mentioned.

You’re now ready to use the printer, no more steps required.

This printer is supportable with android and other handheld devices like tablets.

Thermal ESC/POS printers:

Setting an ESC/POS thermal printer involves 3 steps:

1. Adding a Printer
2. Configuring business location to use the added printer.
3. Installation Pos Print server.

Step1: Adding a Printer

1. Add a new printer from Settings -> Receipt Printer
2. Select the appropriate Connection Type:
1. For “Network” provide the IP Address of the printer.
2. For “Windows” map the printer to a file and provide the path of the file. You can do this by sharing the printer with your localhost.
   The path will be in this format:smb://localhost/my_printer_nameORsmb://computer_name/my_printer_name (where my_printer_name is name of the printer)
3. For “Linux” your printer device file will be somewhere like /dev/lp
   smb://localhost/my_printer_name OR smb://computer_name/my_printer_name (where my_printer_name is name of the printer)(parallel), /dev/usb/lp1(USB), /dev/ttyUSB smb://localhost/my_printer_name OR smb://computer_name/my_printer_name (where my_printer_name is name of the printer)(USB-Serial), /dev/ttyS smb://localhost/my_printer_name OR smb://computer_name/my_printer_name (where my_printer_name is name of the printer)(serial)
3. Select the capability profile and add character per line supported in the printer.
4. Save the Printer configuration.

Step2: Configuring Business Location to use printer:

1. Go to Settings -> Business Settings.
2. For a particular business location, go to “Settings” in actions column.
3. Change “Receipt Printer Type” to “Use Configured Receipt Printer“
4. Select the “Receipt Printers” from the list of Receipt Printers
5. Click on Update.

Great, now we’re ready to print on a thermal printer.

Give it a test drive.

Devices like mobile phones and tablets can’t be used for printing if a thermal ESC/POS  printer is used.

Printing via Phone/Tablet  Bluetooth using Thermal Printer

In Omolead there is no special setup required for printing via mobile Bluetooth using thermal printers. You can print receipts like printing any other documents from your computer/mobile in these printers.