POScenter PC-80 Thermal Label Printer User Manual

POScenter PC-80 Thermal Label Printer

Product Information

The POScenter PC-80 USE series is a thermal barcode printer that offers high performance and reliability. It is a high-quality and competitively priced product that is easy to use. It is widely used in various industries, such as factories, logistics, restaurants, and tea shops.

Technical Parameters

The technical parameters of the printer are as follows:

• Printing Method: Direct Thermal
• Printing Speed: 127mm/s
• Printing Width: 72mm
• Printing Resolution: 203dpi
• Interfaces: Serial, Parallel, Ethernet, Cash Drawer

Product Usage Instructions

Safety Warnings
Before using the printer, please read and follow all safety warnings in the user manual.

Notices
Please read and follow all notices in the user manual before operating the printer.

Printer Installation and Operation

To install and operate the printer, please follow the instructions provided in the user manual. This includes adjusting the interval sensor and initializing the printer.

Indicator Light and Button
The printer has an indicator light and button. The indicator light displays fault codes, and the button is used for various functions. Please refer to the user manual for more information.

Printer Interfaces
The printer has various interfaces, including serial, parallel,Ethernet, and cash drawer. Please refer to the user manual for instructions on how to use each interface.

Printer Driver
The printer requires a driver to be installed on your computer.
Please refer to the user manual for instructions on how to install and use the printer driver.

Instructions

POScenter PC-80 USE series is thermal barcode printer with high performance and reliability. It is with high quality and competitive price and easy to use, so it is widely used in the factory, logistics, restaurant, tea shop, etc.

Safety Notices
Please read the below warnings carefully and observe it strictly before operating the printer.

1. safety warnings
   Warning: Do not touch the printer cutter or paper tearing cutter.
   Warning: The print head is the head and the peripheral comp finishing the printing.

2. Notices

3. The printer should be put on solid place. Don’t put printer on vibration and shocking place.

4. Don’t print or save printer in high-temperature, high-humidity and heavily polluted place.

5. Printer adapter should be connected to a properly grounded socket. Don’t use the same socket together with large motors or other equipment that may cause voltage fluctuations.

6. Avoid water or conductive material (such metal) going into the inside of the printer, once happen, should turn off the power immediately.

7. If long time not uses printers, should disconnect the adapter power.

8. Don’t disassemble the printer for overhaul or transformation.

9. Please only use the adapter, which is together with printer

10. To ensure the quality and lifetime of printer, we recommend to use high-quality thermal paper and ribbon.

11. Make sure the printer power is turned off when Pull or plug connection lines.

12. When Pull or plug power cord, please hold at the cord end, which is marked with arrow (do not pull the soft part of the cord) .

13. Please keep this manual for reference.

SUMMARISATION

Main Features

• Support thermal paper roll/thermal sticker/thermal label
• 2-6inch/s high printing speed
• Support 2D printing (QRCODE)
• Paper width from16mm-82mm and easy to use
• Paper automatic checking function
• Modular design to meet different application requirements
• Self-adaptive temperature control
• Low power consumption and low running costs

Technical parameters

• Printing method: Direct thermal printing
• Resolution: 203DPI
• Paper width: 16-82MM
• Printing speed: 150mm/s (max); 127mm/s (normally)
• Memory: DRAM: 8M FLASH: 4M
• Interfaces

| Serial interface| DB9 female interface, baud rate of 4800bps, 9600bps, 19200bps or 38400bps optional (via DIP switch adjustments), data structures for no parity, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, supports RTS / CTS and XON /XOFF handshaking meeting.
| Parallel interface| 25PIN Parallel (male) bi-directional parallel interface,8-bit parallel interface, support the BUSY/nAck handshake protocol.
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| Ethernet interface| Standard RJ45-8P interface, 10M / 100M adaptive transmission speed, 100M LED indicates network, data communication LED indicator.
| Cash drawer port| Standard RJ-11-6P socket, output DC 24V / 1A power supply signal to drive the cash drawer action.
| Power Port| Power plug DC24V.

• Barcode:
  • 1D code: CODE128、EAN128、CODE39、CODE93、EAN13、EAN8、CODABAR、UPCA、UPCE、MSI、MSIC、I25
  • 2D code: QRCODE
• Medium
  • Paper type: thermal paper roll, stickers, etc.
  • Paper width: 16mm-82mm
  • Diameter of the outside paper roll: 85mm Max
  • Paper-out method: automatically stripped or peeled off
• Power adapter of the printer:
  • Adapter input voltage: AC 110V/220V，50/60Hz
  • Adapter output voltage: DC 24V/2.5A
  • Printer input voltage: DC 24V/2.5A
• Environment:
  • Working temperature: 5~45°C; Working humidity:20-80%RH(Non-condensing)
  • Storage temperature: -40〜55°C; Storage humidity: ≤90%(Non-condensing)

Printer installation and operation

The dismantle of the printer

Check the spare parts
Please check the spare parts when opening the box, please contract the supplier or factory if anything missed

The connection of the printer

1. Make sure that the printer and PC are turned off, connect the cable to printer and the interface (Serial/Parallel/USB/Ethernet) of the equipment.
2. If the automatic cash drawer is available, then connect the RJ-11 of the cash drawer to the cash drawer port of the printer.(the specification of the cash drawer must coincide with the driver of the printer’s cash drawer)
3. Connect the dedicated adapter of the printer
   Please use the dedicated adapter of the printer. Connection diagram is shown below:

Attention:

1. First plug the DC24V power cord of the printer, and then plug the AC220V power,at last turns the power switch. Do not do that opposite way, or it will do harm to the printer.
2. Inappropriate use of the power adapter will lead to bad quality printing, or even do harm to the printer.
3. Do not connect the telephone line to the cash drawer port, or it will damage both the printer and the telephone.
4. When pull the power cord of the printer, please hold the pace where signed arrow
   (Do not hold the soft cord to pull the power cord). Hold the soft cord and pull may damage the printer or the power adapter.

The loading of the paper roll
Detailed operation as shown below:

Function of Starting Up

Interval Sensor Adjusting

It is necessary to adjust sensitivity of interval sensor under the situation below:

1. new printer
2. change label
3. Printer initialization
   This function is for testing sensitivity of interval sensor. When users change paper of different specification or initialize printer, it needs to set up the interval sensor
   adjusting.

Please follow up the steps below to adjust interval sensor:

1. turn off the power of printer
2. make sure the paper exists and cover is closed
3. press the PAUSE button and turn on the printer, when printer open interval sensor adjustment, loosen PAUSE button.

Printer Initializing
This function is for clearing data downloaded in DRAM and resetting the printer.
Please start adjustment of interval sensor after initialization.

Indicator Light and Button

There is tow indicator lights: blue light for power and red light for error. Tow button: PAUSE and FEED. Showed as follows:

Indicator

Fault Code

Button

button, printer can feed to the front of next label paper.
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2| Pause| When the printer is working, if press PAUSE button, the printer will stopping working.
3| Gap sensor calibration| 1.  Close printer power

**** 2.  Make sure printer is feed paper and cover the upper cover. 3.Press on PAUSE button, and open printer power, now printer will automatic calibrate the sensitivity of gap sensor and then

save the parameters into memory. Finally, loosen PAUSE button.

Printer Serial interface

POScenter PC-80 USE Printer Serial interface is RS-232 standard,communication baud rate is 4800bps、9600bps、19200bps or 38400bps optional (you can adjust it by DIP switch),8 data bits, without odd and even number validation, one stop bit, support RTS/CTS and XON/XOFF Handshake Protocol.

Printer serial interface, the definition of each pin function is as follows:

control code

XON/XOFF to host.

3| RXD| host| Printer will receive data from host
8| RTS| Printer| The signal response current printer state, High level shows printer is busy, it can not receive date. While low level shows

printer is ready, and it can receive data.

5| GND| ——–| Signal Ground
4| DTR| Printer| It is same as RTS signal(PIN 8)

The Connection diagram between printer serial interface and POS host serial interface:

Printer parallel interface

POScenter PC-80 USE printer parallel interface socket is 25PIN Parallel socket,8 bits parallel transmission, support BUSY/nAck handshake protocol. Each PIN function of Printer parallel interface socket is as follows:

PIN

no.

| Signal name| Signal source| Description
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1| /STB| Host| Data gate trigger pulse, it will read-in data when negative edge
2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

| DATA2 DATA3 DATA4 DATA5 DATA6 DATA7 DATA8 DATA9| Host Host Host Host Host Host Host Host| These signals separately represents NO.1 to No.8 information of Parallel data. And when logic is 1, it is high level, when logic is 0, it is low level.
10| nAck| Printer| Printer answering signal, It shows printer has received previous byte data
11| BUSY| Printer| High level shows printer is busy, it can not receive data
12| Paper-out| —–| Indicates whether the paper is missing Paper-out PE.
13| Select| Printer| By resistance to pull high level
18-25| GND| —–| Ground connection, logic low level
15| NError(nFa ult)| Priner| The resistance pulls up high electrical level.

Printer Ethernet Port

The Ethernet interface socket of POScenter PC-80 USE is RJ45-8P, supporting 10M/100M network, and the transmission speed is adaptive.

Pin

No.

| Description| Instruction
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1| TX+| Send differential line+
2| TX-| Send 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

Printer Cash Drawer Port

The printer cash drawer port is with standard RJ-11, 6-wires socket, output DC 24V/1A and work by power signal. Plug the RJ-11 crystal plug into cash drawer port and then you can open the cash drawer via printer.

Printer cash drawer interface pin functions are defined as follows:

Printer driver

Two types of drive for POScenter PC-80 USE Series: one is to install driver program directly under Windows9x/7/8/10/ME/2000/XP/Linux/Mac, the other is to install drive through Serial, Parallel, USB or Ethernet.

1.  Install driver under Windows
   Add printer in the Windows, and appoint the driver documents in the driver disk to Windows. It can print once you start print command in the program. In this way, windows printer driver turns characters to graphics dot-matrix for printing.

2. Install driver by Interface
   In this way, no need for drive program. It can print just when it output character to port and the hard font inside printer realizes the character exchange printing. By port for driver, the printing type transforms page printing to line printing, which controls printing more conveniently.

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References

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