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POSIFLEX PP-7000II Manual

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Aura Series
(PP-7000II /
PP-7000IIUSB)
Thermal Printer
Rev.: B1
IMPORTANT!!!!
Please read carefully before using this printer
Before opening the Top Hood, make sure there is no
paper jam or cutter jam trouble. (Read page 3-4,
3-5 and Warranty Limit in the user's Manual.)

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  • Page 1 Aura Series (PP-7000II / PP-7000IIUSB) Thermal Printer Rev.: B1 IMPORTANT!!!! Please read carefully before using this printer Before opening the Top Hood, make sure there is no paper jam or cutter jam trouble. (Read page 3-4, 3-5 and Warranty Limit in the user’s Manual.)

  • Page 2: Federal Communications Commission Radio Frequency

    Federal Communications Commission Radio Frequency Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table Of Contents GETTING STARTED ..... 1 -- 1 CONGRATULATION ..... . 1 -- 1 PRODUCT BRIEFING .
  • Page 4 GENERAL CLEANING ....3 -- 1 PRINT HEAD CLEANING ....3 -- 1 TROUBLE SHOOTING .

  • Page 5: Getting Started

    The Aura PP-7000II & PP-7000IIUSB series printer uses thermal sensitive paper in form of a roll at a width of 80 mm (standard) or 58 mm (option). The Aura PP-7000II & PP- 7000IIUSB series printer serves the stand-alone desk top application as well as the application within a Posiflex integrated POS system equally perfect.

  • Page 6: Unpacking

    The PP-7000II is the enhanced model from earlier PP-7000 for higher print speed. The Aura PP-7000II & PP-7000IIUSB series make beeping sound as response to Paper End or Paper Near End signals.

  • Page 7: Options

    • Kitchen bell • Wall mount kit • Model select: Standard model (PP-7000II), European model (PP-7080II) and Arabian model (PP-70A0II) • Language to add to standard model: Japanese Kanji; Korean; Traditional Chinese or Simplified Chinese 1 - 3...

  • Page 8: Main Parts On The Exterior

    MAIN PARTS ON THE EXTERIOR Power LED Top Hood Error LED Top Cover Paper Out LED FEED Switch Cutter Cover Bottom Cover Power Switch Hood Release Front View Bottom View Setup Window Screws Window Plate Screw Power Switch 1 - 4...

  • Page 9: Indicators

    Rear View of PP-7000IIUSB Rear View of PP-7000II USB Connector Frame Ground Frame Ground Serial Connector Peripheral Connector Parallel Connector Power Connector INDICATORS • Power LED: green • Error LED: red • Paper Out LED: red OPERATING ENVIRONMENT • Place the printer on a sturdy, level surface.

  • Page 10: Useful Tips

    • Since the paper roll is highly thermal sensitive, please keep them in a dark place that is 20º and 65% RH when not installed in the printer. • Use a grounded AC power outlet. • Use only the power cord and power adaptor furnished with the printer.
  • Page 11 • Use of volatile organic solvents such as alcohol, ester and ketone on thermal paper can cause discoloration. • Some adhesive tapes on thermal paper may cause discoloration or faded printing. • only products made from polyethylene, polypropylene or polyester for storage of thermal paper. If thermal paper touches anything includes phthalic acid ester plasticizer for a long time, the image formation ability may be reduced or the printed image may fade.

  • Page 13: Ii. Quick Start-Up

    II. QUICK START-UP LOADING PAPER Desk top application Slide the hood lock toward the front of the printer to release the hood. Raise the released hood wide open manually. Drop the thermal paper roll inside the printer in the orientation as shown in the picture.

  • Page 14: When To Replace Paper

    Serial connection All the external connectors are in the recessed area at the rear bottom for PP-7000II. The serial connector is a 9 pin D sub Female connector at the right in the picture above. Apply the male connector of RS232 cable to this port for serial application. Please note that when serial connection is used, there must be no cable connection at the parallel port on the printer.

  • Page 15: Usb Connection

    There are 2 stages of device driver installations and a port setup procedure required for the USB interface printer. First is to install PP-7000II USB Thermal Printer. When the PP-7000IIUSB is connected and turned on to a host running Windows, a message like the right picture will pop up and the “Add/New Hardware Wizard”...
  • Page 16 Follow the wizard and browse to the folder that holds the driver and specify this location for the wizard. Keep on following the wizard and it will come to a “Finish”. The process in “Add/New Hardware Wizard” for Win98 is also very similar to what shown here for Win2000/XP.
  • Page 17 Follow the wizard and browse to the folder that holds the driver and specify this location for the wizard again. The process for this stage USB serial port converter driver installation is quite similar to the last stage for the USB printer device driver.
  • Page 18 port assignment setup will be required to use the USB printer as if a normal serial printer. The procedures described below may also be engaged any time whenever a re-assignment of the COM port number is required. Select “Start”, “Settings”, “System”, “Hardware”, “Device Manager”...

  • Page 19: Peripheral Connection

    Peripheral connection The peripheral controller is a RJ11 jack near the serial connector for PP-7000II and is the middle connector for PP- 7000IIUSB. With use of Posiflex cash drawer cable 20863018001 (CCBLA-180-1) come with cash drawer, this port can control a Posiflex cash drawer CR3100 or CR3200 or CR4000 or CR4100.

  • Page 20: Power Connection

    Power connection The power connector is a 3 pin jack between the peripheral connector and the parallel connector for PP-7000II and is at the rightmost for PP-7000IIUSB. Either a Posiflex supplied power adaptor or a printer power cable from a Posiflex POS system can be connected to this connector to supply power for this printer.

  • Page 21: Special Adjustments

    The header is printed in text mode and the rest part of this slip is printed in page mode. If FEED button is pressed at this moment, a font table will be printed in text mode again. To exit the test printing, please turn the printer off and on again.

  • Page 22: Paper Roll Placement

    release the fixing screw to adjust the position of sensor head. The acceptable paper roll bobbin outer diameter is between 18 and 22mm. This adjustment allows sensor activation on paper roll overall diameter between 21 and 23.6 mm unless for too light bobbins.

  • Page 23: Paper Cutting

    accessory of the printer. If the user uses narrower paper roll and requires more spacer plates, it can be purchased from Posiflex. Paper cutting The paper advance after a protective cut is now set to 12 mm. In case the user uses direct cut instead of protective cut to have something like a logo printed on top of each slip, it is also highly suggested to print the logo and necessary paper feeding to make 12 mm paper advance right after each cut to prevent curling...

  • Page 25: Iii. Maintenance Guides

    III. MAINTENANCE GUIDES MAINTENANCE GUIDE LINES • Always turn off and disconnect power before opening the cover. • The areas around the print head and motor become very hot during and just after printing, do not touch them. • When handling the interior of the thermal printer, please pay attention not to be hurt by any sharp edge of the metal parts.

  • Page 26: Trouble Shooting

    Before putting back the paper roll for printing, alcohol solvent must be dried completely. TROUBLE SHOOTING This section gives solutions to some printer problems you may have. General Problems No LED lights up on control panel when switched on – Make sure that the power supply cables are correctly plugged into the printer, the power adaptor and to the power outlet.
  • Page 27 Clean the print head as described in previous section. Printer trembles when printing – Since PP-7000II prints at 180 mm / sec that is extremely high speed, the printer may tremble due to frequent engagement of the brake and acceleration of the motor.

  • Page 28: Paper Jam Problems

    Paper Jam Problems Paper is jammed inside the printer – Turn off the printer and open the print hood by releasing the hood lock. Remove the jammed paper and reinstall the paper roll. Close the hood properly and firmly. Then turn on the printer for operation. If the auto cutter is jammed, the print hood will be locked.

  • Page 29: Advanced Analysis Tool

    Lift transparent protective foil Open Cutter Cover when hood locked Turn the wheel downward till a hole in the plastic gear appears in this window Advanced Analysis Tool This printer supports Hexadecimal Dump for experienced user to view exactly what data is received by the printer. This can be useful in finding software problems.

  • Page 31: Iv. Specifications

    IV. SPECIFICATIONS PRINTER ITEM SPECIFICATION Printing method Thermal sensitive line dot method Effective printing width 64 mm Thermal head configuration 512 dots / line Printing speed 180 mm /sec. Paper feed method Friction auto-feed Paper load method Drop and use Auto-cutter capability Partial cut (1 point at center left) Manual cutter...

  • Page 32: Power Adaptor

    POWER ADAPTOR ITEM REQUIREMENT INPUT VOLTAGE 100 V AC ~ 240 V AC INPUT FREQUENCY 50 ~ 60 HZ INPUT CURRENT 1.8 A MAX. @ 115 V AC OUTPUT VOLTAGE + 24 V DC OUTPUT POWER 60 W STATIC LOAD 0 A ~ 2.5 A OUTPUT REGULATION + / - 5 %...

  • Page 33: Technical Information

    V. TECHNICAL INFORMATION INTERFACES Peripheral interface The connector for peripheral control is a 6P6C RJ11 jack with the following pin assignment. The best recommended cash drawers to this connector are Posiflex CR3100, CR3200, CR4000 and CR4100. Using the cable 20863018001 (CCBLA-180-1) delivered with the cash drawer, the Aura series can control one dedicated cash drawer.

  • Page 34: Setup Window

    SETUP WINDOW On bottom cover of the Aura series thermal printer, there is screwed a metal plate for setup window. In this window, there is a 8 position DIP switch for printer setup. Please use proper tool to change the switch setting when necessary. The switch position counting starts from the nearest edge of printer.
  • Page 35 Switch position 4 defines the handshaking method in serial interface. When it is set to ON, the printer transmits an “XOFF” for busy and sends an “XON” for not busy. When it is set to OFF, the printer signifies the busy status over hardware signals that can be detected by the host as “DSR”...

  • Page 36: Internal Switch

    When the printer is installed with the 58 mm paper guide adaptor for use with the paper roll of 58 mm width, the switch should be set to ON in PP-7000II & PP-7000IIUSB. Switch position 3 is usually set to OFF for ESC/POS command application that prints at 512 dots / line.

  • Page 37: Software Commands

    SOFTWARE COMMANDS The Aura thermal printer supports all commands applicable to Epson printer TM-T88II. The only difference is the smoothening command in enlarged text fonts. Please visit our web site http://www.posiflex.com or http://www.posiflex.com.tw for detail description of the supported commands if required. Paper out alarm When Paper End signal is detected, the printer keeps on intensive beeping and stops receiving data till the signal is...
  • Page 38 This command defines length of beep as m seconds when beep command is received. When m = 0, default applies. ESC ‘p’ m n1 n2: Kitchen bell drive command (m = ‘0’, 0 ¡ Ø n1 ¡ Ø n2 ¡ Ø 255) Hexadecimal codes are: 1B 70 m n1 n2 This command can be used to drive a kitchen bell...

  • Page 39: Character Code Pages 5

    CHARACTER CODE PAGES Aura PP-7000II & PP-7000IIUSB series support all code pages and international character sets applicable to Epson printer TM-T88. There are three models for character sets application as standard model (PP-7000II), European model (PP-7080II) and Arabian model (PP-70A0II):...
  • Page 40 If any undefined code (<00> to <1F>) or an undefined <ESC>, <FS>, or <GS> command sequence beyond these tables is received, the code or the sequence of codes will be discarded. (However, when image print data, character registration data, or command parameters are received, they are handled as ordinary data.) The user may visit our web at http://www.posiflex.com.tw or...

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