@WrCombs said in Epson Thermal Receipt printer issues:

Do we have any epson printer heads here ?

I'm running into an issue were receipt printers are printing characters such as @v or ??????????? on top of receipts.
I have Epson TMT 88 Thermal Printers with Serial connections on com ports on the POS terminals.

I've replaced adapters, checked connections, replaced patch cables, checked hardware settings for those ports for baud rate, handshaking etc.
all of the above is correct, Hardware guys had me test printing .txt files to the printer as just the hardware and they don't print that way.

I've asked everyone else in the point of sale world and still have yet to get an answer that will resolve the issue.

It doesn't do this with NCR terminals, but with POSBANK terminals it seems this is an on going issue.
I've been searching the web and trying different fixes. even the hardware vendor told me things to try and it's still not working.
I'm pulling what little hair i have left out trying to fix this.
any advice would be appreciated..

Generic text driver?

AT&T once had me make a loopback plug for a 'smart' smart jack for a voice T1. For those who don't know, a smart jack is looped up by the provider's tester. A 'smart' smart jack can help with determining distance to trouble among other things.

After I talked to Bob and Tom from parts unknown, I insisted that they get the tester on the phone. They argued with me that they can't let the customer talk to the tester. I specified that I don't want to talk to the tester, that was their job. After 5 minutes of arguing, they transferred me to the tester in Virginia who located a bad card in a town about 20 miles away.

@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

@scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

I had a few buddies that were seriously into the Commodore stuff. Big game collections. Ran great.

I'm a big commodore collector. I have a VIC20, C64, C16, C128, and Amiga 1000.

Sheeeez. They loved the Amiga's too. They were big fans of the Motorola chips IIRC.

I had a few buddies that were seriously into the Commodore stuff. Big game collections. Ran great.

@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

@scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

@scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
I thought it was cool at the time.

Sounds like the Atari 400, I would guess.

I honestly don't remember. I got it as a gift and learned to do a little coding from the user manual. I'm not even sure what language it used when I wrote the code (copied from the manual). Hell, for all I know, the wife could have it sequestered away from me in a closet.
I'm pretty sure that I have a color Panasonic 24pin dot matrix printer somewhere. I'll have to do a search & destroy this year for spring cleaning.

That looks about right. There were connections on it like an old VT terminal.

I have the Return to Zork in an .iso somewhere.
Anyone remember Boo? <I think>
EDIT: Boos -- "Want some rye?"

@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

@scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
I thought it was cool at the time.

Sounds like the Atari 400, I would guess.

I honestly don't remember. I got it as a gift and learned to do a little coding from the user manual. I'm not even sure what language it used when I wrote the code (copied from the manual). Hell, for all I know, the wife could have it sequestered away from me in a closet.
I'm pretty sure that I have a color Panasonic 24pin dot matrix printer somewhere. I'll have to do a search & destroy this year for spring cleaning.

I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
I thought it was cool at the time.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Veeam Agent for Windows "Free"
Works a champ for me

There's a Linux one too

A linux version of Veeam or a linux backup tool (of which there are many)

Veeam Agent for Linux FREE

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Veeam Agent for Windows "Free"
Works a champ for me

There's a Linux one too

Veeam Agent for Windows "Free"
Works a champ for me

I think that with our 0% chance of rain and the thunderstorm outside that I must be in Narnia

@scottalanmiller said in Broadvox Outage 15 April 2019:

For anyone with Broadvox SIP trunks, there is an outage going on right now. Took forty minutes on the phone to find out, but they know that it is happening and are working on getting things back up. I've not heard how long this should be expected (and maybe they don't know.)

Isn't Broadvox now called Fusion?

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

My brother lives about 30ish minutes from there IIRC -- South Beloit

My grandson is getting baptized. It's all good.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

and our vendor basically just screwed us.
fantastic.
happy Friday eve .

Name and shame?

NCR -
They provide hosted solutions - to me that means, they handle everything for these solutions.
well, one of these is real a time updates app on your phone.
WE had a customer that added a new store and requested it,
They screwed up the entire app for all 9 of his stores and after 3 weeks finally got it fixed.
then he asked for them to assign access levels to the specific sites for their managers respectively.
Well after 4+ weeks of him and us fighting for them to fix it
and someone telling them that they were working on making the changes to help him
someone came out and said "we don't make these changes for liability"
He's said "I've never made a change and your tech said he was working on it, so now all of a sudden after 4 years it's changed? I think I'm done."
everything was kosher until they added this newest store into the fold.
then it all went to shit and they dont want to fix it.

They are going to cost us 9 sites + him expanding with more stores and concepts.

Wait, don't tell me .... because PCI.

I love the list of projects that people here like.

Gotta meet with an electrician. My day is now shot. All over a 20A circuit for a copier

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

sarcasm/Its a joke

I even tried running

Sudo Copy Test.txt>comx

i figured it out

Copy test.txt \com?

Is the correct syntax, also Com ports are exclusive. SO Since Aloha was using it to run the printer, it wasn't going to print test.txt

This tells me that it's most likely an aloha problem because the Printer isnt printing different characters now .

Odd. I didn't realize that you're running a 'nix' OS. Isn't your printer mapped in /dev/ I believe that would be your destination and I don't remember the syntax. There's tons of Linux gurus here that would know.

excuse my noobness - What is a "Nix" OS?

Anything linux.

I'm running Windows 10..

Ahh. My mistake

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

sarcasm/Its a joke

I even tried running

Sudo Copy Test.txt>comx

i figured it out

Copy test.txt \com?

Is the correct syntax, also Com ports are exclusive. SO Since Aloha was using it to run the printer, it wasn't going to print test.txt

This tells me that it's most likely an aloha problem because the Printer isnt printing different characters now .

Odd. I didn't realize that you're running a 'nix' OS. Isn't your printer mapped in /dev/ I believe that would be your destination and I don't remember the syntax. There's tons of Linux gurus here that would know.

excuse my noobness - What is a "Nix" OS?

Sorry. Unix, Linux, BSD, ...