P1000 Printer tested and works with MMI8000

I know it has been a long time since my last post. I am trying to get back into blogging. Some Interesting events are happening and i want to be ready to blog about them.

I was wondering if KEP's P1000 slip printer would work with the MMI8000 Series products. So I got myself one of these printers and tried some tests. I wasn't too long before I was printing up fictitious receipts. I thought I should pass this information along. It is on my website as well as below.
Link:  MMI8000 to P1000 Printer Setup

First, setup the printer so it can receive printouts from the MMI8000/6000 Series products.

Set the baud rate in the printer to 9600 Parity None.

1. Hold FEED button down and cycle power to the P1000 Series printer.
2. Press SEL button until “Baud rate: 9600bps” is printed out.
3. Press FEED and then Press SEL button until “Parity: None” is printed out.
4. Cycle power to the P1000 Series printer.

The printer is now set up and ready for printing.

Next, configure the MMI8000/6000 Series project created with EasyBuilder8000 Software to print information.

1. Go to the Edit|System Parameters Menu and then to the Model Tab.
2. Select SPRT(SP-DIII, DIV, D5, D6, A, DN, T) as the printer model
3. Set COM: to COM 1; Baud rate: to 9600; Parity: to None; Data bits: to 8; Stop bits: to 1
4. Set Pixels of width to 144 (The P1000 Series printer's print head width) 
5.  Recommended Screen hard copy scale: is 100%

When creating a window for printing, the following is recommended.

• Create the window with a width of 144 pixels to match the P1000 Series printer's print head width.
• Use fonts no smaller than size 8 as the resolution of the printer is unable to clearly print text with a lower resolution. Size 12 fonts are printed as large.
• Printouts will be in black and white (ribbon color is substituted for black)

Cable configuration: Printer 25 pin Male to HMI 9 pin Female

P1000 Printer	MMI8000/6000 RS232 COM1
2 TxD (Transmit)	3 RxD (Receive)
3 RxD (Receive)	2 TxD (Transmit)
4 RTS (Busy Line)
7 GND (Ground)	5 GND (Ground)
20 DTR