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Add A4 printer to ViKING POS till

In addition to a receipt printer, some organizations want to add a printer to a till that can print product sheets, safety data sheets, etc. in A4 format.
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This procedure describes how to add such a printer to a ViKING POS till.

Before you begin, make sure that the required printer is installed, connected to the store’s network, powered on, and loaded with paper.

  1. On the keyboard that’s attached to the till, press CTRL+ALT+F1

After a short wait, this will open a new virtual screen on the till’s display 2. In the login dialog, click Not listed? 3. Log in with user name root and the required password 4. On the new virtual screen, open the Firefox browser 5. In the browser, open this address: localhost:631

This will open a CUPS web page (CUPS is a printer management tool) 6. On the CUPS web page, under CUPS for Administrators, click the Adding Printers and Classes link 7. Click Add Printer 8. In the authentication dialog, log in with user name root and the required password

The dialog that follows will offer to save the login details. Make sure that you click Don’t Save.

  1. In the list of available printers, under Discovered Network Printers, select the required printer, and then click Continue

A confirmation dialog will show details about the selected printer

Under Connection, verify that the network path to the printer begins with dnssd

If it does, click Continue

If the network path to the printer instead begins with socket, click the browser’s back button, select another printer, and verify that it’s network path begins with dnssd

  1. Click Add Printer, then click Set Default Options, and wait for a short while until a new page loads
  2. In the Administration drop-down, select Set as Server Default, and wait for a short while until the previous page loads again
  3. In the Maintenance drop-down, select Print Test Page

Verify that the printer prints a test page

It can take up to 30 seconds before the printer begins to print the test page

When the test page has been printed successfully, you can close the browser 13. To log out of the virtual screen and return to the till’s normal display, click the

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in the top right corner of the virtual screen, select root, and then select Log Out

By default, it takes 60 seconds before you get logged out of the virtual screen. Click Log Out again to log out immediately and return to the till’s normal display