Printing
Flow Retail has extensive support for printing on various types of printers, split into three different categories:
Receipt printers
Label printers
A4 printers
Connecting the printers
There are basically two ways of connecting a printer to Flow Retail:
a) via a Flowbox
b) directly over the network
Connecting via a Flowbox
Please check out Flowbox documentation for details.
Directly over the network
Make sure you printer is available directly over public IP, and has either an active LPD (port 515) printer queue or Jetdirect (port 9100-9102) printer queue.
Printing over the network directly to the printer requires direct IP access to the printer's IP address and port. In most cases this is NOT possible unless you use Flow Retail Enterprise, with a local installation of the platform.
Receipt printers
These printers are normally located in the till area, to print out receipts.
The printers are normally of type thermal, meaning the print is "burned" onto/into the paper, and thus they are very easy to install and used, with little to no maintenance needed.
The paper is on a paper-roll, easily replaceable.
Requirements
Must support the ESCPOS printing language
Label printers
Used to print various types of labels, like price labels or delivery notes to stick onto products for later pickup.
Also thermal-based, similar to receipt printers.
Supported labels formats
36x20
Price labels
40x27
Price labels
40x50
Price labels
51x25
Price labels
100x100
Pickup note
Various order details + product details
100x190
Pickup note
Order details + product details. Remark: Customer details on this label are intentionally obfuscated. Personally identifiable information such as customer name and phone number is masked or anonymized for privacy and security reasons.
Requirements
Must support printing language
A4 printers
Basically any modern A4 printer is supported.
Requirements
Must support printing a PDF directly to the printer (most modern printers supports this)
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