ZKTeco ZKP8011 Thermal Receipt Printer User Manual

ZKTeco ZKP8011 Thermal Receipt Printer

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ZKTeco Headquarters

Address ZKTeco Industrial Park, No. 32, Industrial Road,
Tangxia Town, Dongguan, China.
Phone +86 769 – 82109991
Fax +86 755 – 89602394
For business related queries, please write to us at: sales@zkteco.com.
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About the Company

ZKTeco is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of RFID and Biometric (Fingerprint, Facial, Finger-vein) readers. Product offerings include Access Control readers and panels, Near & Far-range Facial Recognition Cameras, Elevator/floor access controllers, Turnstiles, License Plate Recognition (LPR) gate controllers and Consumer products including battery-operated fingerprint and face-reader Door Locks. Our security solutions are multi-lingual and localized in over 18 different languages. At the ZKTeco state-of-the-art 700,000 square foot ISO9001-certified manufacturing facility, we control manufacturing, product design, component assembly, and logistics/shipping, all under one roof.
The founders of ZKTeco have been determined for independent research and development of biometric verification procedures and the productization of biometric verification SDK, which was initially widely applied in PC security and identity authentication fields. With the continuous enhancement of the development and plenty of market applications, the team has gradually constructed an identity authentication ecosystem and smart security ecosystem, which are based on biometric verification techniques. With years of experience in the industrialization of biometric verifications, ZKTeco was officially established in 2007 and now has been one of the globally leading enterprises in the biometric verification industry owning various patents and being selected as the National High-tech Enterprise for 6 consecutive years. Its products are protected by intellectual property rights.

About the Manual

This manual introduces the operations of ZKP8011 product.
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Document Conventions

Conventions used in this manual are listed below:
GUI Conventions

For Software

Convention| Description
Bold font| Used to identify software interface names e.g. OK , Confirm , Cancel.
> **| Multi-level menus are separated by these brackets. For example, File > Create > Folder.
For Device
Convention| Description
< >| Button or key names for devices. For example, press .
[ ]| Window names, menu items, data table, and field names are inside square brackets. For example, pop up the [New User] window.
/**| Multi-level menus are separated by forwarding slashes. For example, File/Create/Folder.

Symbols

Convention|

Description

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| This represents a note that needs to pay more attention to.
| The general information which helps in performing the operations faster.
| The information which is significant.
| Care taken to avoid danger or mistakes.
| The statement or event that warns of something or that serves as a cautionary example.

Cautions

1. Install your printer on a stable surface and prevent if from any form of vibration and impact.
2. Do not use or store it in areas with high temperatures, humidity, or pollution levels.
3. Connect the power adapter to a grounded outlet. Do not share the same plug socket with a large-scale electrical motor or other motors, which may cause voltage fluctuations in the power supply.
4. Avoid getting water or other conducive materials such as metal, to get into the interface of the printer. If it occurs, unplug the AC power cord immediately.
5. Do not print it without paper, or it will damage the rubber roller and the thermal print head.
6. Unplug your printer before leaving it unused for an extended period of time.
7. Never disassemble or modify the printer for repair or reconstruction.
8. Make sure that you use the original specified power source.
9. Quality roll paper is recommended for premium printing and product maintenance.
10. Be sure to turn “OFF” the product of while plugging and unplugging.
11. For convenience, place the plug socket around the product.
12. This product is only used upto 5000 metres above sea level in tropical climate conditions.

Application Area

1. Kitchen ticket printing system.
2. Takeaway ticket printing system.
3. Shopping mall receipt printing system.
4. Hospital receipt printing system.
5. Supermarket receipt printing system.
6. Sports lottery printing system.
7. Bank bill printing system.
8. Telecommunication bill printing system

What is in the Box

Printer Features

1. Simplified/traditional characters can be freely converted through the instructions, and it supports a variety of one-dimensional barcode printing.
2. Support for cash drawer drivers, with automatic paper cutting.
3. To avoid the knife jamming, programme an anti-jamming knife design.
4. Support the overheating protection of the print head, so as to extend the life of the print head.
5. Support kitchen printing, network printing, and to support the function to prevent lost order
6. Printing pictures with NVLOGO support and downloading them (picture format is BMP).
7. Support for an incoming order prompt and error alarm function (built-in loudspeaker, high-pitched reminder when incoming order is out of the paper).
8. A built-in speaker and an LED light with a sound alarm lamp post provide a single response.
9. Added detection and reminder functions to alert the users of the printed receipts that have not been taken away.
10. The network port interface supports printer authentication, computer software binding, and high-speed printing mode which has a network speed of 100M.
11. Support Linux system driver and an advanced OPOS driver.
12. Printing commands with powerful graphics customization and character customization can produce clear and beautiful printing.
13. Easy-to-load paper structure, waterproof, oil-proof, dust-proof design, easy to load paper, with out-ofpaper detection.
14. Support black mark for detection function.

Printer Parameters

(Multilingual)/ PC860 (Portuguese)/ PC863 (Canadian-French)/ PC865 (Nordic)/West Europe/ Greek/ Hebrew/ East Europe/ Iran/ WPC1252/ PC866 (Cyrillic#2)/ PC852 (Latin2)/ PC858/ IranII/ Latvian/ Arabic/ PT151 (1251)
Barcode Types| UPC-A/ UPC-E/ JAN13 (EAN13)/ JAN8 (EAN8)/ CODE39/ ITF/ CODABAR/ CODE93/ CODE128
Input Buffer| 64 Kbytes
NV Flash| 256 Kbytes
Power Adapter| Input: AC100V to 240V/50 to 60 Hz Output: DC24V/2.5A
Cash Drawer| DC 24V/1A
Operation Environment| Temperature (0 to 45℃) humidity (10 to 80%)
Storage Environment| Temperature (-10 to 60℃) humidity (10 to 90%)

Printer Connection

1. Connect the adopter cable to the printer power interface.
2. Connect the data cable to the printer port.
3. Connect the cash drawer to the printer.

Paper Roll Installation

To install the roll paper, follow the steps below:

1. Open the roll paper cover.

2. Insert the roll paper as the following illustration shows.
   

3. Pull out a small roll of paper, and then close the roll paper cover.
   

4. Tear up the extra roll of paper.
   

Setting Printing Mode (DIP Switches)

DIP switches allow you to change settings such as the cutter, languages, beeper, print density, baud rate, and so on.

DIP Switch Functions (Several Models Only)

Function

SW-7| ON| OFF| ON| OFF
SW-8| ON| ON| OFF| OFF
Transmission speed (bps)-bit/s| 38400| 115200| 9600| 19200

Button Name, Indicator LED Light and Function

• FEED Button
  Press to FEED paper manually.

• Paper Indicator (LED light)
  Blue and red lights are on means a lack of paper, no alarm means all goes well.

• Power Indicator
  The presence of light indicates that it is connected properly

• Error Indicator
  The ALARM indicator twinkles when there is a paper shortage, a cutter error, or a printing head overheating

Self-test

When the printer is powered on, turn it off, press the FEED button, and then turn it back on. After 2 seconds, the completed self-test will be printed out to show the printer settings.

Method to Enter Hexadecimal Mode

When the printer is connected to power, press the FEED button and turn it on at the same time for about 10 seconds, and then release the FEED button to enter data hex dump mode. it will print “Hexadecimal Dump” on the paper.

Reset

When the printer is connected to power, press the FEED button and turn it on at the same time for about 20 seconds, reset succeeds if the beeper peals.

How to Solve Paper Jam

• Method 1
  Re-start printer.

• Method 2
  Open the battery cover near the paper exit. Turn the white gear on the cutter. Only if the cutter gets back to its initial position, the cover can be opened
  Caution: Do not damage the print head and the auto-cutter by opening the cover forcibly.

Clearance

Timely clean the print head if one of the below conditions occurred:

1. Unclear printing.
2. Unclear vertical column in printing paper.
3. Noisy feeding.

Cleaning

Clean the printer as follow:

1. Turn off the printer and open the roll paper cover. Remove the roll paper if any.
2. The thermal head may become extremely hot after printing. Allow it to cool before cleaning.
3. The thermal elements of the thermal head should be cleaned with wrung-out cotton that has been moistened with an alcohol solvent.
4. Close the cover after the ethanol has been completely volatilized. After that, print the self-test page.

Printer Driver

• Driver Software
  POSPrinterSimple80DriveSetup V1.23R

• Installation Steps

1. First make sure whether it is set as the default printer.
2. Select the printer port to use (if it is an USB interface, ignore this step directly).
3. Click to start the installation, as shown below.

Notice

1. Please make sure power is turned off while maintaining the printer.
2. Don’t touch or scratch the printing head surface, roller and sensors.
3. Avoid gas, acetone or other organic solvents.
4. Close top cover and reconnect power after the alcohol has been completely volatilized. To ensure that it works properly, run the print self-test.

Failure Analysis

1. Replace the power adapter.
2. Check the power outlet.

Print no content|

1. Check that the paper is installed in the correct orientation.
2. Check whether the power supply uses the original power supply.
3. After confirming the above, if there is no content on the printed self- check page, the machine has a hardware failure.

CUSTOMER SERVICES

ZKTeco Industrial Park, No. 32, Industrial Road, Tangxia Town, Dongguan, China.
Phone : +86 769 – 82109991
Fax : +86 755 – 89602394
www.zkteco.com
Copyright © 2022 ZKTECO CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.

References

• ZKTeco | Biometrics and Computer Vision
• ZKTeco | Biometrics and Computer Vision

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