A couple questions about Printing

Version 4 V4 Question
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You cannot change the color of the text on the Ticket Display.

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I think what @rcorado is referring to is the dotmatrix style kitchen printers which have black and red ribbons.
Have not got one yet but am look out for one. The epson ones I believe have black and red (or at least the one I was looking at)

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If that is the case, you will need to learn the escape codes for the printer to make it switch color. When you have figured that out, you can use the <XCT>a,b,c,d command in the Printer Template.

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Thanks Joe and QM. Yes we have a dot-matrix printer. I will see about using the commands. I was curious where exactly they go but will try a few configs.

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Formatting codes will usually go at the beginning on the line for this type formatting.

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Thanks Joe, this is what I am trying to achieve exactly but no luck so far:

I copied and pasted the exact receipt template Emre provided but not printing as expected. Any thoughts?

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Would check the documentation for your printer…
Might need enabling for a different code.

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Thanks Joe. I was playing with it and figured out the correct ESC codes. :slight_smile: Appreciate all the tips!

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What printer are you using? Would be interested in you opinion as not ordered one yet.

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Yes i was talking about the epson printers with black and red ink. Is this the same printer you have and how did you figure it out, it wont work for me.

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Also, is there an easy way to switch between menus? We have a Lunch menu that is different from the dinner menu. I have not found an easy way to switch between the two.

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Version 5 you will be able to switch menus from within the ticket. V4 you cant do this currently.

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This should solve color question. Those commands are in your printers documentation.

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Hi Joe, Just saw this. We are using an Epson TM-U220A I believe. So far so good.

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Is V5 out? if not when will it be?

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Thats the same printer i’m using, could you copy what you have because i must be doing something wrong.

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I believe the estimated release is sometime late in June subject to beta testing.

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Not sure how to add the grey area so the codes will be visible.
These two line items are what I have in my Kitchen template which makes the font bigger and everything prints in Red.

I submitted a question to Emre about what the codes mean (I took those from one of his posts) but am pending a response.

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I think youll probably find that 27,33,16 is ‘set red’ and 27,33,0 is ‘set black’ a bit like xxxxx in html.
Your font size is more likely set by the formatting tag at the beginning of the [ORDERS] section where you have {QUANTIRY} and {NAME}

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Each printer will have specific codes for this. You look them up in your printers documentation.

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