etouchOS Retail - first install

"It's killa!"

That's the vote on our first etouchOS Retail beta installation. Extremely fast and very easy.

Where?

Il Toro Pasta & Espresso Bar,
321 North East Rd  
Hampstead Gardens, SA 5086
Australia

Not all smooth sailing

It would come as no surprise that we've had a few interesting moments along the way (with more to come no doubt).

First pass? Void button wasn't working (fixed now!)

The printer? 
Originally we were planning for the receipts to be the Brother RD102mm size paper. Still on our todo list to get supply.  

So, in the short term 80mm paper.


See, most POS printers have standard size paper. In other words, if the printer takes 76mm paper that's what you get for it. The TD4000 (read more here), well it lets YOU choose (up to 102mm) the size you want.

It printed. No error, just the alignment was not correct.

No problem except we hadn't told the printer that we had installed 80mm paper. 


Now, this is where that TD4000 and Brother's printer software comes into its own.  You can create your own paper size within the printer software. Let me just say that again, "YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN PAPER SIZE!" 

We created a continuous roll with 80mm width in the Brother software. Save. Done. Print.

Simple! Thanks Brother über geeks!

We've got more to do with etouchOS Retail, but the printing is sorted!