Section 7.2.1: Printers / KDS - Direct Printing

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SECTION 7.2.1: PRINTERS / KDS - Direct Printing

The ability to print is a necessity for nearly any restaurant; whether it is an order printing in the kitchen or a customer's receipt, printing is essential. The Printer / KDS settings are where you will set-up each of your printers and / or KDS's.

Lavu recommends that you use Epson Printers; learn more about which models are compatible and how to set them up.

Don't forget that you need to assign Kitchen printers to Menu Categories and Menu Items.

1. Log in to your Control Panel (cp.poslavu.com) then navigate to Settings > Printers / Technical > Printers / KDS.

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2. Enable or Disable Enable Legacy Printing.   When enabled, until a printing action is completed, the User Interface on the POS will remain blocked; the server will have to wait for a print to the kitchen or receipt printer to complete before taking other actions on the POS.

3. Direct Printing is the default setting for the latest versions of Lavu POS. The server will not have to wait for a print action to complete. 

4. Select the Access level required to use front end Printer Setup from the drop-down menu.

This setting dictates whether a user will or will not be able to select Printer Settings in the Lavu POS App.

5. Select the Kitchen ticket font size and Kitchen ticket font size in graphics mode from the appropriate drop-down menus.

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6. Enable or Disable Print modifiers in red on Kitchen ticket.

This setting will only apply if you have a two color kitchen printer.

7. Enable or Disable Print forced modifiers in separate lines on kitchen tickets.

8. Enable or Disable Print optional modifiers in separate lines on kitchen tickets. 

9. Select the Receipt font size and Receipt font size in graphics mode from the appropriate drop down menus.

10. Enable or Disable Include company logo on receipts.

This setting requires that you upload an image to your Company Settings and have Graphics Mode enabled.

11. Enable or Disable Order receipts respect category print order.

12. Enable or Disable Automatically send new API orders to the kitchen.

13. Enable or Disable Send void tickets to the kitchen when an item or order is voided.

14. Enable or Disable Print void ticket heading in red.

This setting will only apply if you have a two color kitchen printer.

15. Click SAVE to save any changes you have made then Reload Settings on all of your devices running the Lavu POS App.

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