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  • Page 1 KP203 Thermal Printer User’s Manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Catalogue 1 Introduction ................................1 1.1 Brief introduction............................1 1.2 Main features ............................... 1 2 Specification ................................2 2.1 Specification ..............................2 2.2 Printing material requirements ........................4 2.2.1 Paper parameters ..........................4 2.2.3 Printing paper using attention ......................4 2.3 Printing and paper cutting position ......................

  • Page 3: Introduction

    1 Introduction 1.1 Brief introduction KP203 is a thermal POS printer. It has good printing quality and high stability, which is widely used in POS system, food service industry and many other fields. KP203 connects other devices via parallel or USB port, optional Bluetooth. It offers drivers for WINDOWS, ANDROID and LINUX operating systems.

  • Page 4: Specification

    KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 2 Specification 2.1 Specification Item Parameter Printing method Thermal printing Resolution 203DPI,8 dots/mm Printing width 48mm(384 dots) Printing parameter Printing speed 90mm/s USB: KP203-U Interfaces and Parallel：KP203-P printer types Optional: Bluetoooth Page mode Nonsupport(Optional)
  • Page 5 KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual CP775 WCP1254[Turkish] WCP1255[Hebrew] WCP1256[Arabic] WCP1258[Vietnam] ISO-8859-2[Latin 2] ISO-8859-3[Latin 3] ISO-8859-4[Baltic] ISO-8859-5[Cyrillic] ISO-8859-6[Arabic] ISO-8859-7[Greek] ISO-8859-8[Hebrew] ISO-8859-9[Turkish] ISO-8859-15 [Latin 3] Thai2 CP856 Supports different density dots and images printings Supports grating bitmap printing Chart Supports download bitmap printing, every bitmap size should less than 64K, and the total capacity of download bitmap is 64K.

  • Page 6: Printing Material Requirements

    KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 2.2 Printing material requirements 2.2.1 Paper parameters 1) Paper type: thermal receipt paper/thermal black mark paper 2) Paper width:58±0.5 mm 3) Paper roll diameter: 50 mm (Max.) 4) Paper thickness:0.065 ~ 0.10mm 2.2.3 Printing paper using attention Note: Please use good quality paper, otherwise, it will effect printing quality and even reduce printer head life.

  • Page 7: Printing And Paper Cutting Position

    KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 2.3 Printing and paper cutting position 2.3.1 Printing position L1-Paper storehouse’s width:58±0.5mm L2-Effective printing width: 57mm L3-Distance between print head to paper storehouse’s left edge (fixed width): 3±0.3mm L4-Distance between print head to paper storehouse’s right edge (fixed width): 3±0.3mm L5-Left margin: Default is 4mm L6-Printing area width: it is set by commands (refer to programming manual).

  • Page 8: Appearance And Components

    KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 3 Appearance and components 3.1 Appearance and components...

  • Page 9: Indicator Instruction

    KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual Function instruction of components 1）Power switch Press the power button, then turn it ON, Press it again and turn it off. statue indicator(green) The indicator is on when power on, and statue of printer.

  • Page 10: Printer Installation

    KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 4 Printer installation 4.1 Open the package Please make sure everything is in good status when you open the package. Otherwise, please contact to distributor in time. 4.2 Requirements of installation position Put the printer on a stably place.

  • Page 11: Paper Roll Loading

    KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 4.6 Paper roll loading 4.6.1 Printing paper type confirmation You can load paper roll to print after connecting power adapter and communication cables. Please make sure the printing paper type before printing. The default paper type is continuous thermal receipt paper.
  • Page 12 KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 2）Choose language as “Simplified Chinese”,and choose printer to connect PC port. 3）Choose the port and model what you need (USBxxx corresponds USB port, COMx correspondS serial port, LPTx corresponds parallel port),and click to install.

  • Page 13: Linux Driver Installation

    KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 4.9 LINUX driver installation USB port driver installation 1.Copy commandtokc，rastertokc，texttokc in 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.
  • Page 14 KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 2.Click system setting after installing filter. 3.Click printer...
  • Page 15 KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 4. Add printer Serial port printer chooses serial port #1,or serial port #n.It is permission denied if it does not show serial port.Please modify serial port device file access right as all people can read and write,or input command in the terminal:sudo chmod a+rw /dev/ttyS0;com1 in...
  • Page 16 KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual...
  • Page 17 KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 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 18 KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 6. Choose Printer58.ppd in the catalogue...
  • Page 19 KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 7. Click “Forward” button 8. Click “apply” button.
  • Page 20 KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 9. Print self-test page The driver installs correctly if it can print self-test page.

  • Page 21: Interface Pin Definitions

    KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 5 Interface pin definitions The printer has a cash drawer driver interface and many kinds of communication interfaces: parallel and USB . USB port and cash drawer interfaces are standard interfaces, and it has USB and parallel ports as optional.

  • Page 22: Power Interface Pin Definition（Mpc-3-001B

    KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 5.3 Power interface pin definition（MPC-3-001B） 1）Pin definition Pin number Signal name +12V 2）Interface type: DC-005 Power socket. 5.4 Cash drawer interface pin definition（RJ11-6P6C） 1）Electrical specification Driver voltage: DC12V Driver current: Max. 0.8A (within 510ms) Cash drawer status tests signal: “L”...

  • Page 23: Faults Handling

    KP203 Thermal POS printer User’s manual 6 Faults handling Please refer to the methods as below when printer can’t work normally. Please contact your supplier directly if it still can’t work normally. 6.1 Printer does not work Problems Probably reasons Solutions The Power indicator is not light.

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