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Kitchen Printers

Setting the Kitchen Printer/s are the same as for Receipt.

The difference with Kitchen Printers is you have the ability to rename them from “Kitchen Printer 1-12” to a Custom Name, like “Coffee”, “Hot Kitchen” and “Dessert”.

These name changes will also appear both in Network Printers and in the printer settings for Stock Items.

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Kitchen Printer

Used to print dockets for menu orders in the Bar or Kitchen when using Orders, Table Map, Bar Tabs, Kitchen Monitor and Dry Cleaning.

They can also be used as a yard packing slip for Landscape and Hardware businesses.

 

Idealpos 9 supports the following printer drivers:

 

Each printer has the ability to perform a test print.

If the printer is configured using Network Printers and is unable to print, it will display an error on screen.

If the print is unable to be printed when printing to a Direct COM Port or Windows Shared Network Printer, the print job will hold Idealpos open (Freeze) while it continues to try to print the job.

Depending on the settings this may take anywhere from 10 seconds to 1 minute to error, or not print.

 

Network Printer View

 

Stock Item View

 

There are sixteen different combinations that can be used when printing to the kitchen.

In total there can be six printers configured for kitchen printing for each terminal.

A printer can effectively be set as 2 or 3 different printers to be used as a separate docket in different areas of the kitchen.

 

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Print Double Width

 

Print Double Height

 

Print Bold

 

Print Items Above Header

Print Double Width & Double Height

 

Print Double Width & Above Header

 

Print Double Width & Bold

 

Print Double Width, Bold & Above Header

 

Print Double Width, Double Height & Above Header

 

Print Double Height & Bold

 

Print Double Height & Above Header

 

Print Bold & Above Header

 

Print Double Height, Bold & Above Header

 

Print Double Width, Double Height & Bold

 

Print Double Width, Double Height, Bold & Above Header

 

There are some other options available to be set on each printer for each terminal.

 

 

 

Zebra Labels

When configuring Idealpos to print Kitchen Receipts to a Zebra Label Printer (Zebra ZDesigner GC420d), this setting is used to select the Zebra Printer from the list of printers.

When using this setting, ensure that you first select the Kitchen Printer from the top of the screen, then use this Zebra Labels setting to select the Zebra Label Printer.

When orders are sent to the Kitchen Printer, they will be printed to the Zebra Label Printer chosen in the Zebra Labels field.

For more information about setting up this feature, please refer to the topic Zebra Label Support for Kitchen Printers.

 

 

Headers/Footers

Setting the Headers and Footers and additional details is configured on the right side of the Receipt tab.

There are ways to make the font Bold and Centre.

There is no limit to the amount of text that can be entered.