Setting up your Star TSP100 (Bluetooth)

What you’ll need for Setting up your Star TSP100 (Bluetooth)

Hardware requirements

Printer Printer
Power cable Power cord
Paper roll Paper roll

Setting up your Star TSP100 (Bluetooth)

  1. Connect the power cord to your printer and an electrical outlet.
  2. Turn your printer on and wait for the blue light to stop blinking.
  3. Insert your paper roll.
  4. You are now ready to connect your printer by Bluetooth.

Connect your Bluetooth

  1. Open Settings from the Windows Start menu and select Devices > Bluetooth.Windows menu
  2. Click the Bluetooth toggle from Off to On.
    Windows bluetooth pair
  3. Select the device name (TSP-1XX-XXXXX) and click Pair.
  4. When the connection is completed, “Connect” will be displayed under the device name.

Installing the drivers

  1. Go to the Star Micronics website.
  2. Click TSP100 futurePRNT Software Lite to download the latest driver.
  3. Head to your Downloads folder and click the Tsp100 file.
  4. From the tsp100 folder, click Autorun.
  5. From the Compressed (Zipped) Folder windows, click Extract All > Extract.
  6. From the tsp100 folder, click Autorun.
  7. In the new TSP100 futurePRNT window, click Installation > I Accept.
  8. Follow the installation steps to install the printer driver on your computer.
  9. Deselect the Launch Star Cloud Services website and click Finish once you are done.

Connect your cash drawer

Once you’ve got the printer all set up, you can connect your cash drawer.

The cash drawer connects to your receipt printer and is triggered to open when you finish a cash or cheque sale, and the receipt is printed by the printer.

To setup the cash drawer:

  1. Plug the RJ12 connector cable from the cash drawer into the receipt printer.
  2. Next, head to Devices and Printers on your PC.
  3. Right-click on your receipt printer, select Printer Properties>Device Settings.
  4. Change the Peripheral Unit Type to Cash Drawer and set the Unit 1 and 2 options to Document Bottom. If you want your cash drawer to fire before the receipt prints you can set the Unit 1 and 2 options to Document Top.Receipt printer properties
  5. Save these settings and test it by performing a test print from the Sales history.

Printing a receipt

You can start using your printer to print your receipt in Retail POS.

To perform a test print:

  1. Navigate to Sell > Sales history. Print Receipt Sales History
  2. Click a sale to expand and click Print receipt.Reprint Receipt Sales History Expanded Sale Print
  3. Select a receipt template.Print Receipt Sales History Receipt Template
  4. In the Print preview screen, make sure that your Star printer is selected.
  5. Untick headers and footers and set the paper size to 72mm x 2000mm, 72mm x 200mm, or 72 mm-receipt. Once done, click Print.

Insure Auto Connection is turned off

How to Turn Auto Connection ON or OFF for Desktop Bluetooth interface

Introduction

How to configure the Auto Connection setting for desktop Bluetooth interfaces. For IOS devices Auto Connection should be on. For Windows, Mac, and Android Auto Connection should be off.

 

Supported Printers: TSP650II, TSP700II, TSP800II, SP700, mPOP

Supported Interfaces: Bluetooth Supported Environments: N/A Devices Needed: N/A

Software Needed: N/A

 

Confirm the current Auto Connection setting

Before doing the procedure, you can confirm the current Auto Connection settings on the 2nd page of the self-test. Please perform a self-test turning on the printer while holding down the feed button (the multi-function button for mPOP) and let go when it starts to print. For the SP700 let go of the feed button when it finishes the initializing noises. You can see “Auto connection” on the small 2nd page.

 
The image of the 2nd page of the self-test

 

TSP650II, TSP700II, TSP800II, SP700

Insert the paper roll.

 

Turn on the printer.

 

Hold down the RST button on the back of the printer until you hear the initialization noises after about 7 seconds.

 

The lights at the front of the printer will start flashing and the current settings are printed out after 9 seconds.

 

Turn off the printer.

 

Turn on the printer while holding down the feed button and let go of it when it starts to print. For the SP700 let go of the feed button when it finishes the initializing noises.

 

Make sure Auto Connection setting is set to the desired setting in the second page

 

mPOP

Insert the paper roll.

 

Turn on the printer.

 

Hold down the RST button on the bottom of the printer until you hear the initialization noises after about 5 sec

 

Turn off the printer

 

Turn on the printer while holding down the multi-function button as shown in the below image and let go of it after it starts to print.

 

Make sure Auto Connection setting is set to the desired setting on the second page.

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