joenoreason
Technical User
I've had this problem for a while now and just ignored it because the printers are "fast enough", but I know they are no where near the proper speed. Years ago, when all of my terminals ran windows 98, my t88iii printers printed receipts as fast as they physically could (think self test). Fast forward to today and now under XP and Windows 7, my t88iii and t88iv print slower, and in bursts. The self test on the t88iv is amazingly fast, yet for whatever reason when I print anything from aloha it just bursts a few lines, a few lines, a few lines, etc until the check is printed. Very annoying to me because I know something is wrong somewhere.
I'm running OPOS, using serial printers, the highest baud rate they can handle and have tried all other methods of setting up a printer in aloha including Windows Printer and T80. OPOS is the fastest and the only one that formats on the paper properly (well, t80 does too, except the barcode is off). The "Windows Printer" setting was full speed if i use the font substitution option in the epson advanced driver, but the formatting of the check was very unusable. Makes me wonder if Aloha send non internal fonts to the check and then the printer prints it in graphic mode, but then I remember how it worked perfectly in windows 98.
Any ideas?
I'm running OPOS, using serial printers, the highest baud rate they can handle and have tried all other methods of setting up a printer in aloha including Windows Printer and T80. OPOS is the fastest and the only one that formats on the paper properly (well, t80 does too, except the barcode is off). The "Windows Printer" setting was full speed if i use the font substitution option in the epson advanced driver, but the formatting of the check was very unusable. Makes me wonder if Aloha send non internal fonts to the check and then the printer prints it in graphic mode, but then I remember how it worked perfectly in windows 98.
Any ideas?