The Epson TM-L90 offers a wide range of printing options allowing for receipts and labels to be created. It can handle a variety of products including retail, food, deli, and quick-serve beverage labeling. The Epson TM-L90 features fast print speeds and handles a variety of print stock for receipts, labels, barcodes, and tickets.
Connecting the TM-L90
To connect the Epson TM-L90 to Talech follow these steps.
- Remove the bottom cover underneath the printer
- Connect the power and ethernet cables to the printer
- Reinstall the bottom cover taking care to route the cables out through the provided slot(s)
- The ethernet cable must be connected to the same network (I.E router) as your iPad.
- Load paper in the printer
- Power on the printer
- Hold down button on the back of the printer next to the ethernet port for 3 seconds to print the network sheet with the IP address.
- In the talech Register application, navigate to Dashboard > Back Office > Settings > Printers
- Tap the "Auto Detect" button. talech will search for any new printers. Once found, the TM-L90 should appear under the same IP address that was printed in step 4.
If auto-detect does not find the printer, you can manually create a printer by hitting the "+" button in the top right corner. Enter in the printer name (any text string is allowed, the default is the IP address obtained in step 8 above) and enter the IP address exactly how it appeared on the sheet. Make sure to select the TM-L90 model in the drop-down field.
Printing items Individually
To send orders as smaller adhesive labels to be used for items like a cup of coffee, the Talech settings will need to be adjusted for the printer in order for the items to send individually.
- Log in as an Admin and go to Dashboard > Back Office > Settings > Printers
- Select the TM-L90 (Use Auto Detect to find the printer if it's not already configured in talech Register)
- Ensure that the proper categories/tags are selected for the items you want to print.
- Select “Advanced Printer Settings,” then toggle on Print Items Individually.
Printing an Order
You can set your printer to send order tickets when you save an order, when a payment is made, or when you select send. You can also resend an order if the order ticket is missing. To set up order sending:
- Log in as an Admin and go to Dashboard > Back Office > Settings > Printers.
- Select the printer you would like to send orders to, in this case, the TM-L90.
- Click on categories to set the categories of the products you would like to send to the printer. If there are specific items from a category that you would like to send you can create a tag for them, then go to tags on the printer and select them.
- Select “Advanced Settings” on the printers tab to select when you would like an order to send.
- Setting “Print Order Tickets after” to “Save” will send the order whenever the order is saved, “Payment” will send the order when the order is paid, and “None” will require you to manually send the order.
- If “None” was selected then to send the order you will need to tap “Send” on the ticket whenever you would like to send items to the receipt printer.
- To resend an order you can click on “Edit” on the ticket, then tap “Send/Resend” and select the items you would like to send
Printing Barcodes with the TM-L90
Along with labels and receipts the TM-L90 can also be used to print Barcodes through the Talech app.
- Log in as an Admin and go to Dashboard > Back Office > Inventory
- In the top right tap on “Actions” then tap “Print Barcodes”
- Select the products you want to print by tapping the plus "+" buttons along the right, to show "Added."
- Tap “Barcode List” at the top of the page to enter the number of barcodes you would like to print for each product. Tapping copy will enter the quantity in the print QTY box.
- Tap “Print” in the top right. A confirmation will pop up with the quantity being printed.
- Tap Confirm to proceed.
Troubleshooting the TM-L90
If the printer is not printing or showing an error you can try the following steps:
- Verify the printer is feeding paper.
- Check for error lights
- Use a pin to hold down button on the back of the printer next to the ethernet port for 3 seconds to print the network sheet with the IP address.
- Verify the IP address is valid.
- If the IP address is showing 0.0.0.0 then the printer is not being assigned an IP address.
- Verify that the ethernet cable is connected on the printer as well as the Router.
- Attempt to use a new ethernet cable or a cable from a known working device.
- Verify that the router is turned on and plugged in.
- If the IP address is showing 192.168.192.168 then the printer may be set to static.
- To change an Epson printer from static to DHCP click here.
- If the IP address is showing 0.0.0.0 then the printer is not being assigned an IP address.
- If the IP is valid go to Dashboard > Back Office > Settings > Printers, then tap autodetect and verify the printer shows available and the IP address matches.
- Verify the printer is on the same network as the iPad. You can test this by unplugging the router the printer connects to and verifying the iPad disconnects if you are unsure.
Paper for the TM-L90
The TM-L90 can use regular thermal paper or adhesive thermal paper. You can order standard thermal paper here. You can order adhesive paper with an insert here and without an insert here.
*When ordering label paper we do not recommend using precut labels as they can cause alignment issues like the receipt below.
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