Rongta Technology RP58 User Manual

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RP58
USER MANUAL
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Catalog
CATALOG ........................................................................................................................................ 2
1PRODUCT INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 3
2SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................. 4
2.1MAIN FEATURES ........................................................................................................................... 4
3SPECIFICATION ....................................................................................................................... 4
4INSTALLATION AND OPERATION ........................................................................................ 7
4.1CONTENTS IN THE PACKAGE ......................................................................................................... 7
4.2PRINTER CONNECTION ................................................................................................................. 8
4.3LOAD THE PAPER ROLL ................................................................................................................ 9
4.4POWER SWITCH, KEYSTROKE AND INDICATOR LIGHT .................................................................. 9
4.4.1 Power Switch ........................................................................................................................... 9
4.4.2 Keystroke and Indicator Light ................................................................................................. 9
5SELF-CHECKING ............................................................................................................................ 10
6SERIAL INTERFACE ........................................................................................................................ 11
7PARALLEL INTERFACE ................................................................................................................... 12
8ETHERNET INTERFACE ......................................................................................................................... 12
9CASH DRAWER INTERFACE............................................................................................................ 13
10、PRINTER MAINTENANCE ............................................................................................................. 13
10.1 Print Head Maintenance ........................................................................................................ 13
10.2 Sensor Maintenance ............................................................................................................... 14
10.3 Print Roll Maintenance .......................................................................................................... 14
11、FIX THE PAPER JAM ..................................................................................................................... 15
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1PRODUCT INTRODUCTION
Model: RP58 is a POS direct thermal receipt printer with easy operation and high cost effective, which is widely used in supermarket, hospital, restaurant, bank, oil station, turnpike etc.
Safety Notice
Please read carefully and strict compliance with use of following instructions before operating the printer.
1. Safety Warning
Warning: Do not touch the cutter of printer.
Warning: The print head is heating element; do not touch it and its peripheral
parts during the printing process or the print just ended.
Warning: Do not touch the surface of print head and its connections to avoid
damage it.
2. Notice
(1) The printer should be installed at a firm place and avoid it in vibration and
shake.
(2) Do not use or store the printer in the location of high temperature, humidity or
heavy pollution.
(3) The power adapter of printer should be connected to a properly grounded
socket. Avoid using the same socket with other large electronic machines or the equipments which could cause the voltage fluctuation.
(4) Do not let water or foreign objects get inside the printer, if it happens, please
turn off the power supply immediately.
(5) Printer could not be worked under the paperless process; otherwise it would
seriously damage the print roll and the thermal print head. (6) Please disconnect the power supply if a long time not to use the printer. (7) The user is not allowed to dismantle the printer by self for repairing or
remolding.
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(8) Use only supplied power adapter.
(9) In order to ensure the printing quality and extend the life of printer, please use
the recommendatory thermal paper or the one which has the same quality.
(10) Please make sure the power of printer is off when plugging the connecting
line.
(11) Please keep the user manual for reference when using.
2SUMMARY
2.1Main Features
● High print quality
● Low noise
● Supports cash drawer driver
● Compact and lightweightPretty outside design
● Good structure, easy using
● Interface: USB, Serial, Parallel, Ethernet
● The font could be magnified, bolded or underlined and the user also could
adjust the character spacing before printing.
● Supports the print of different density bitmap and download figure.
● High print speed
● Low power consumption and operation costNo need ribbon or ink box
● Emulation: ESC/POS
3SPECIFICATION
●Printing MethodDirect thermal printing
●Paper Width57.5±0.5mm
●Effective Printing Width48mm
●Printing Speed90mm/s (Max.)
●Print head performance
Resolution384 dots/line or 8 dots/mm TPH: 50KM
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●Interface
USBUniversal USB interface (Standard B)
USB Cash Drawer Power
SerialDB9 female head interfacebaud rate is 9600bpsdata structure is no
parity8 bits of data and 1 stop bit, supports RTS/CTS and XON/XOFF handshake protocol.
Serial Cash Drawer Power
Parallel25PIN (Male head) bidirectional parallel interface , 8 bit parallel
interface, supports BUSY/nAck handshake protocol.
Parallel Cash Drawer Power Ethernet: RJ45-8P standard interface, 10M/100M adaptive transmission speed, 100M network LED indicator, LED data communication indicator.
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Ethernet Cash Drawer Power
Cash Drawer Control6 lines RJ-11 socketout put: DC12V/1A Character
ASCII code character set12×24 dots1.25W×3.00Hmm Chinese character24×24 dots3.00W×3.00Hmm International Codepage:PC437、Katakana、PC850、PC860、PC863、PC865 WPC1252 PC866PC852PC858 and so on Printing CodeSupports UPC-AUPC-EEAN(JAN)13EAN(JAN)8 CODE39CODABARITFCODE93CODE128.
Printing paper Paper TypeThermal paper Paper Width57.5±0.5mm Paper Thickness0.060.08mm Paper roll diameterΦ80mm Recommendatory thermal paper
Item #AF50KS-E ManufacturerJujo Thermal Oy(Finland) Item #TF-50KS-E ManufacturerNippon Paper Industries Co.Ltd
Note:
1 Suggest to use the recommendatory thermal paper or the one which has
the same quality, otherwise, would affect the printing result; even though, shorten the life of thermal head.
2 Do not use the paper roll that the end of paper is pasted at the axis core,
it would cause the damage to the printer.
3 If the thermal paper is polluted by the chemical or oil, it would fading
or decrease the feeling of heat and influence the print result finally.
4 It would result the fading of thermal paper if to use the hard material to
chafe the surface.
5 Please pay attention to the temperature, humidity and illumination of
the storage for thermal paper. The paper would fade if the storage temperature is over 70 centigrade.
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● MCBF5×106 lines
EmulationESC/POS
Print FontSupports ANK: 12 x24,9x17, Chinese: 24 x 24 Print Dot/MapSupports the printing of different dots and maps
Power Adapter Adapter InputAC 110V/220V5060Hz Adapter OutputDC 12V/2A Printer InputDC 12V/2A
Net Weight:About 1.2kg(exclude the paper roll)
Dimension
210(L) × 135(W) × 130(H) mm
Environmental Adaption
Operation Temperature050°C Operation Humidity1080% Storage Temperature-1060°C Storage Humidity1090%
Model #
RP58U USB Interface RP58S Serial Interface RP58P Parallel Interface RP58L Ethernet Interface
4INSTALLATION AND OPERATION
4.1Contents in the package
Parts Please check the parts when opening the box, if there is something missed, please
contact with the supplier or the manufacturer.
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Printer
Power Adapter
Power Cord
Paper Roll
CD
Communication Cable
4.2Printer Connection
(1) To ensure the printer and PC is powered off and then insert the matched
data connection lines to the interfaces (USB/Parallel/Serial/Ethernet) of the printer, the other ends are to the PC.
(2) If the user fit out the electric opened cash drawer for the printer that
could insert the RJ-11 connection line of it to the corresponding interface of the printer. (PS: The specification of cash drawer should be accorded with the driver requirement of printer).
(3) Power adapter
Please only use the supplied power adapter. Such as the following
picture
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Notice: (1) Firstly, insert the power supply plug DC12V of printer; then connect the
AC220V power; lastly, turn on the switch. Please operate it by the instruction steps; otherwise, it would damage the printer.
(2) Use unsuitable power adapter would cause the bad print result; even
though may cause the breakdown of printer.
(3) Do not connect the telephone line to the interface of cash drawer;
because it may result the damage for printer and telephone.
(4) Do not pull the power soft wire when unplugging, if the user does it by
force may result the breakdown of the printer and power adapter.
4.3Load the Paper Roll
Model: RP58 printer use 58mm width thermal paper, which with easy paper
loading. The loading instruction is listed at below:
1 Open the top cover of printer. 2 Loading the paper roll as following picture. (Left is correct; right is wrong).
3 Pull a part of paper out of the paper trough and then close the top cover.
4 Use the cutter of printer to tear off the extra paper.
4.4Power Switch, Keystroke and Indicator Light
4.4.1 Power Switch
Switch is for turning on/off the power supply of printer which is located right
ahead of it. When pressing “-” is turn on the printer and pressing “O” is turn off.
Notice: Do not turn on the switch unless the user connects the power supply.
4.4.2 Keystroke and Indicator Light
Keystroke and indicator board is listed as below
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Function Description of Keystroke and Indicator Light
FEED Key:
In the standby status, the printer would be continuous feed when pressing the
feed key. Of course, the key is inefficacy when the printer is working.
Press the feed key and switch on the power supply while the key is still under
pressing, then the user could do the self-checking of printer.
POWER LIGHTGreen):
Light appears when connected to the power supply.
ERROR LIGHTRed):
Light appears under following condition: Such as: paperless, paper jam, print head overheat, print head error or other
situations.
PAPER LIGHTRed): Light appears when paperless.
5Self-checking
Self-checking can test the printer is work well or not, if it can print the test list
correctly that means the printer is good enough (which is excluding the problem with the connected interface to PC); otherwise, it needs repair.
Self-checking could print software version number, print density, interface type,
English character and some Chinese characters by order.
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Self-checking procedureMake sure the printer is connected to the power,
then press the feed key and switch on the power supply while the key is still under pressing. At the same time, the printer begins to self-checking. Please loosen the key within five seconds and the printer would print the self-testing list after it.
The test list looks like the following when it finished:
Selftest
*****
** Completed **
6Serial Interface
RP58 serial interface adopt RS-232 standard, baud rate is 9600bps, data structure is no parity8 bits of data and 1 stop bit, supports RTS/CTS and XON/XOFF handshake protocol. Pin function of serial interface is listed as below:
Pin number
Model
Signal Source
Specification
2
TXD
Printer
The printer will be sent XON/XOFF to PC when
operating the XON/XOFF handshake protocol.
3
RXD
PC
Printer received the data from PC.
7
RTS
Printer
The signal reflects the current printing status, low
voltage means the printer could not receive the
data, high voltage is contrary.
5
GND
--------
Signal Source
4
DTR
Printer
The same as pin number 7
Connection diagram of serial interface between printer and PC: TXD 2 2 RXD RXD 3 3 TXD RTS 7 8 CTS DTR 4 1 DCD GND 5 5 GND
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6 DSR Serial interface of printer DB9 4 DTR Serial interface of POS PC DB9
7Parallel Interface
RP58 parallel interface is 25pin, 8 bit parallel transfers, supports BUSY/nAck
handshake protocol.
Pin function of parallel interface is listed as below:
Pin number
Model
Signal Source
Specification
1
/STB
PC
Data strobe trigger pulsedata is read-in when falling edge.
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
DATA2 DATA3 DATA4 DATA5 DATA6 DATA7 DATA8 DATA9
PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC
These signals stand for the first to the eighth information of parallel data.
Each signal when the logic shows”1” is
high electrical level, when the logic shows”0” is low electrical level.
10
nAck
Printer
Answer signal means the printer has received the date of previous byte.
11
BUSY
Printer
High electrical level means the printer is busy, could not receive data.
12
GND
-----
Electrical grounding, low electrical level.
13
Select
Printer
The resistance pulls up high electrical level.
18-25
GND
-----
Electrical grounding, low electrical level.
15
NError(nFa
ult)
Printer
Error signal.
8Ethernet Interface
The Ethernet interface connector of RP-58 printer is standard RJ45-8P, support
10M/100M network and adaptive transmission speed.
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9Cash Drawer Interface
Cash drawer interface adopt RJ-11 standard, 6 lines socket and the output of it is DC 12V/1A. Insert the RJ-11 socket to the corresponding interface which could through the printer to open the cash drawer.
Pin function of cash drawer interface is listed as below:
Pin Number
Signal
Flow Direction
1
Empty
Empty
2
Electrical grounding
Output
3
Empty
Empty
4
Driver Signal of Cash Drawer
Output
5
Empty
Empty
6
Empty
Empty
10Printer Maintenance
10.1 Print Head Maintenance
When the printer has following circumstances should clean the print head:
1Printing is not clear; 2Some longitudinal columns on the printing page is vague; 3Loud noise when feeding.
Pin Number
Signal Source
Specification
1
TX+
Transmit
differential line +
2
TX-
Transmit
differential line-
3
RX+
Receive
differential line+
4
NC
No function
5
NC
No function
6
RX-
Receive
differential line-
7
NC
No function
8
NC
No function
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Procedure of maintaining the print head is listed below: 1Turn off the power supply and open the top cover. Remove the paper if
necessary.
2Please wait for the cooling of print head if it just finish printing. 3Use the cotton cloth and dip it in the absolute ethyl alcohol to clean the
surface of print head.
4When the absolute ethyl alcohol is completely volatilized, please close the
top cover and restart the printer.
10.2 Sensor Maintenance
When the printer has following circumstance should clean the paperless sensor:
1During the printing, the printer occasionally stop print and the paperless
alarm is beeping.
2No paperless alarm. Procedure of maintaining the sensor is listed below 1Turn off the power supply and open the top cover. Remove the paper if
necessary.
2Use the cotton cloth and dip it in the absolute ethyl alcohol to clean the
surface of sensor.
3When the absolute ethyl alcohol is completely volatilized, please close the
top cover and restart the printer.
10.3 Print Roll Maintenance
When the printer has following circumstance should clean the print roll:
1Printing is not clear; 2Some longitudinal columns on the printing page is vague; 3Loud noise when feeding.
Procedure of maintaining the print roll is listed below: 1Turn off the power supply and open the top cover.
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2Use the cotton cloth and dip it in the absolute ethyl alcohol to clean the
surface of print roll.
3When the absolute ethyl alcohol is completely volatilized, please close the
top cover.
Notice:
1The power supply of printer should be turned off when the routine
maintenance.
2Do not use hand or metal to touch the surface of print head and not use
tweezers to scratch the superficies of print head, print roll or sensor.
3Do not use oil or acetone to do the maintenance. 4When the absolute ethyl alcohol is completed volatilized, then power on the
printer.
11Fix the Paper Jam
When paper jam happens, turn off the power supply and open the top cover, wait for the cooling of print head then remove the jammed paper. After that, reload the paper roll and close the top cover. Use the recommendatory paper or the one which has the same quality would reduce the risk of paper jam.
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