The till guide

1 · This terminal

Paper width, cut and drawer pin

managerWhere: ⚙ → This terminal → a printer's row

Every make of thermal printer answers the same commands slightly differently. Three taps on the printer's row settle the ones that vary, without anyone changing the app:

80 mm · 42 cols58 mm · 32 colsThe paper. A narrow head wraps at 32 characters; the wrong setting prints off the edge or leaves a third of the paper blank.
Feed + cutFull cutPartial cutNo cutHow the paper parts. Print a test after each tap and look at where it tore. No cut feeds three lines so the tail clears the tear bar.
Big text: standardBig text: swapped bitsItem names on a ticket print tall. If they come out wide and run off the paper instead, the head reads the size byte the other way round: tap once.
Drawer pin 2Drawer pin 5Which pin the drawer's cable is on. Take a cash payment; if the drawer stays shut, tap once and try again.

The settings live with the printer on this terminal, and the dashboard can push them to a till from the device hub.

Related: Add a printer and test it · Settings pushed from the dashboard

On the till itself: ⚙ → 📖 Help shows this article offline, every role, no PIN.