Once the receipt printer is installed in Windows, the following steps should be followed. The settings below are based on Windows 7.

Verify the paper size. Access does not support a paper length above 22.5 inches; therefore the “Receipt Length” options must be discarded. Instead, select a “Letter Length” option that has approximately the width of the paper being used (at least 3 inches) as the default paper.

Windows 7

• Click Start
• Go to Control Panel
• Select Devices and Printers
• Right-click Receipt Printer
• Select Printer Properties
• Select the General tab
• Click the Preferences button
• Click the Advanced button (at the bottom right)
• Set Paper Size to “Letter length  3.14x11in 48c”
• (OK, OK)
• Device Settings tab
• Set Receipt to “Letter length  3.14x11in 48c”
• Select the Advanced tab
• Click the Printing Defaults… button
• Select Paper/Quality tab
• Click the Advanced button (at the bottom right)
• Set Paper Size to “Letter length  3.14x11in 48c”

If the printer is the “Generic / Text Only” printer:

• Open the Properties window
• Click on the Advanced tab
• Select Print Directly to the Printer

The following are the two printers that were tested with the Readmit Slip and Off Campus programs:

However, the Citizen CT-S2000 was preferred due to the setup being much easier and it is a better quality printer.  Also, USB ports are ‘modern’, whereas parallel ports are slowly disappearing.