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BeagleHardware.com - Epson TM-U220 Printer M188B M188D M188AEpson Model TM-U220 Receipt PrinterEpson's TM-U220 impact printers are compact, reliable and optimized for high-speed throughput. Dubbed the 'kitchen printer' for their ability to withstand high temperatures and hostile operating environments.
They offer all the easy-to-use features important to the retail, restaurant and hospitality industries and two-color printing to highlight special offers, kitchen orders andvivid logos.
EPSON UB-U02III - Searching Windows UpdateEPSON USB Controller For TM/BA/EU Printers - Ready to useAt this point the printer is shown in Devices and Printers under Unspecified with the name UB-U02III (which it looks like is the model designation for the USB adapter board on the back of the printer).The installed printer (installed via APD driver) EPSON TM-U220 Receipt printer is showing up as Not available in its status.What am I doing wrong?? The driver is downloaded directly from Epson on their product page for the U220.Incidently I get an identical result trying the above on a Windows XP machine.I hope this is concise and not to waffly!ThanksMike. DIP Switches are set all to off except DSW2, 2, Which is on:DSW1:1 OFF Data Receive Error Prints '?'
2 OFF Receive buffer capacity 4KB3 OFF Handshaking DTR/DSR4 OFF Word Length 8bits5 OFF Parity Check No6 OFF Parity selection Odd7 OFF Transmission Speed 9600bps8 OFF BUSY Condition Receive buffer full or offlineDSW2:1 OFF Print Column 40/332 ON For internal use only (autocutter) Enabled3 OFF undefined -4 OFF Serial Interface Selection DIP switch5 OFF undefined -6 OFF For internal use only (flash memory rewriting) Disabled7 OFF Pin 6 reset signal Not used8 OFF Pin 25 reset signal Not used. Right well the TMCOMUSB driver is now known as the TMVirtualPortDriver which I have tried, despite the fact there is no documentation on the Epson website for it (even though this is where I downloaded it from).
1) Deleting all the software as you describes is not enough, it still leaves bits and pieces throughout your system2)Can I just ask first, is there any chance that you connected your printer to your computer BEFORE you installed all the drivers and software, the first time? I suspect that is what you have done. If so, you will get exactly the behaviour that you are talking about here.3)further to '1)' above, if you have done '2)' or if you want to remove your software completely, you need to also search the Window registry after you have removed the software and remove anything it has put in there. Make sure you make a backup of your registry first.4) yes windows is retarded, so compare this to Linux, To get almost any USB printer to work on Kubuntu Linux you just. No driver, no software, they just plugin and auto configure and in a few second just work!HP make a good effort to fully support all their printers on Linux, so all things being equal, always buy a HP.
Most other brand common usb printers also just plug in and work as well, but HP makes the most effort, hence deserves preferential treatment at purchase. Your problem is almost certainly that you physically plugged in your printer BEFORE you installed the software THE FIRST TIME. If you did, then you will get the behaviour that you are describing here.So I have rewritten my post with more 'how fix it' information.Important notes -1) Deleting all the software in the way you describe does NOT remove it all, it still leaves behind 'stuff' in your system. You also have to search your registry and delete the appropriate entries. If you do anything with your registry, back it up first!!!!2) Yes, Windows really is so retarded that it will give you these results.Your solution isFIRST PHYSICALLY DISCONNECT YOUR PRINTER AND LEAVE IT DISCONNECTED!1) UN-install all the printer software, and any other software you may have tried to install to fix this problem.2)workout what windows put in your registry when you first physically connected your printer, and delete it. Almost certainly since it didn't have the printer driver installed first, stupid windows thought it was a UB-U02III. Yeah sure,search for1)printer brand name, Epson, printer model name, TM-U220B2)name of the USB device that windows thinks the printer ise.g.
UB-U02III, TMCOMUSB, TMVirtualPortDriverI don't think it will work but you could try this first just in case, since you may find it easier. Go to the control pannel, system, device manager, find the item that Windows thinks is there when you connect your printer and force it to use the driver for your printer. But when I had to fix this same problem once a few years ago, with a different USB printer that someone had also plugged in before loading the software, I am sure it did not work. I know that in that case I definitely had to go to the registry, so I imagine that this is still the case.Just make sure you you do the back up first, promise?1)back up your registry before you start stuffing around with it.
VERY important!2)Un-install all the printer software BEFORE you search the registry.3)Make sure your printer is, and remains DISCONNECTED through out the registry searching/deleting process and remains so until you AFTER you have re-installed the software from your CD that came with the printer/software downloaded from Epson. Usually the installation process will ask you to connect your printer at some point during the software/driver installation, if/when it does, that's when to connect the printer, otherwise just wait until after all software is installed.4) reboot the computer after you have edited the registry BUT before you have re-installed the printer software. This reboot is how you unload the old registry and load up the newly edited registry. If you don't reboot you will still have the old wrong unedited registry in memory despite your edits to the registry on the HDD.I think from memory there will only be a couple of things to delete, and make sure you don't delete something that you need. Be conservative, delete one or two thing that seem obvious and then try it.Now for my fee more rant: -)If you are running something that needs to be reliable like a website, or a POS system, you should be on Open source software, there are open source pos applications out there as well as Linux o/s.Nothing much is 100% true in the IT world, but in 99% of cases this is accurate advise. You will find there is a lot of Windows centric IT advise out there of dubious quality, mostly it is just poor quality IT staff that really don't know what they are on about, they have usually only used Windows.good night and good luck,P.S. Please tell me how you go.
PROBLEM SOLVEDThe solution was to roll back windows to a state before the first time ever the printer was plugged in (I reverted to original factory install). English conversation books free download. Then I had to install the driver BEFORE plugging in the device.The problem was the very first time I plugged the printer in, the Epson APD driver wasnt installed. Windows therefore assigned the most relevent driver and created registry keys associated to the physical hardware ID of the printer. Even when the windows chosen driver was uninstalled and so too was the Epson software, the keys created by windows associated with the printer ID remained.
So the keys had to be deleted (or a system restore to a point where the reg keys never existed).In short NEVER EVER EVER ring Epson customer support because they are crap. Their many solutions were mostly fob offs or time extenders for them. Their final one was send them the printer. Which wouldnt have resolved this problem even if I had done it.Finally, in one form or another, the problem always always lies with the drivers.
(Unless your hardware is in more than 34 pieces, in which case its probably smashed!).Spothedfix:You were completely spot on. I briefly tried deleting the registry keys but I spent all of about 10mins on it. It wasnt a problem to roll back to factory install because basically the computer is new anyway and I knew this would sort out any registry issues, but I'm 100% positive the problem lay with the reg keys.Your advice was invaluable and you have solved umpteen hours of work on this. I cant thank you enough.
OK that's good, sort of, but now I am a little worried, see below.Your description of the problem is correct I didn't tell you all of that detail in advance because, well I had already written an essay!I just recently purchased a really cheap 3-in-one HP printer for my mother. It had stickers with large red writing saying in capitals 'DO NOT PLUG IN BEFORE INSTALLING SOFTWARE' or something like that, over the cable and printer plug.How stupid is Epson if they didn't instantly work out what the problem was!!
I saw what the problem was instantly, I was only doubtful because I thought surely Epson would have thought of this first thing and asked you about it.You say 'don't call Epson support', better to say 'don't buy an Epson in the first place' if their support is so stunningly incompetent!Now the concerns.What you have said brings up all sorts of questions and doubts in my mind.Particularly reading between the lines.1)what do you mean 'roll back to factory install'? There is a Windows roll back feature which rolls back to 'restore points' one of which would be original install. But I think you might mean you re-installed the whole system software back to original factory? Either way, make sure you now go back and immediately do all of the windows updates and ALL the updates for all applications immediately, most particularly urgent if this system has any access to the Internet.2) what security software and anti-virus software are you running?3) is the pos system connected to either the Internet? Or a network in which any other device is connected to the Internet?4) written in VB6!!! It is extremely unlikely that you need a special purpose application, and it is not very likely (but I guess not impossible) that your application is any good if it is written in VB6!5) I could be wrong, but I would bet that you are being taken advantage of (ripped off).
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It sounds like it, anyway. I think you need some independent advice.6) Have they written in VB6 because they are linking you into MS applications?
If so that is also a concern, then you have to pay for an MS application that you don't otherwise need and you are open to all the vulnerabilities in that MS application as well.7)open source does not HAVE to mean free of charge, it just means that they have to show anyone the source code. They could still sell you the service of providing you a working POS set up using open source software. They could even still sell you the software still if they wanted to.8) in general terms one of the main reasons companies/people don't want to let there code go 'open source' is that they know that then anyone can read it and thus all their crappy workmanship will be obvious. I know that sounds like an extraordinary statement to make, but I think you would be surprised at how true it is.Without knowing a lot about your business, obviously my advice is very general and may not even apply to your business, but my experiences makes this seem doubtful.Remember that you own your data, don't let unethical companies tie your data up in formats and applications that restrict your access to your data and tie you to their products.If their product is good, works well etc. Then why would anyone bother to go to all the effort and risk in moving to any other software? So why do they tie you in with artificial difficulties?
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Answer, because they know their software is crap and you can get better elsewhere cheaper or for free.You say it wouldn't be prudent to use opensource, I strongly suggest that what would not be prudent would be to continue with that external company!Anyway I am happy that you fixed your problem so easily, good luck and happy new year!Jim.