KaiCong P58A User manual

P58A Portable Thermal Pinter
User’s Manual

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Contents
1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 1
1.1 Brief introduction ................................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Main features .......................................................................................................................................... 1
2 Outline & Parts ............................................................................................................................................... 2
2.1 Outline ................................................................................................................................................... 2
2.2 Parts ....................................................................................................................................................... 3
2.3 Accessories ............................................................................................................................................. 3
3 Specifications ............................................................................................................................................... 4
3.1 Specifications ......................................................................................................................................... 4
3.2 Printing material requirements ................................................................................................................ 6
3.2.1 Paper parameters .......................................................................................................................... 6
3.2.2 Printing paper using attention ....................................................................................................... 6
4 Use-methods .................................................................................................................................................. 7
4.1 Requirements of installation position ...................................................................................................... 7
4.2 Preparation before using ......................................................................................................................... 7
4.2.1 Battery installation ....................................................................................................................... 7
4.3 Paper roll loading ................................................................................................................................... 7
4.3.1 Printing paper type confirmation .................................................................................................. 7
4.3.2 Loading or change paper roll ........................................................................................................ 7
4.4 Indicator ................................................................................................................................................. 9
5 Basic functions ............................................................................................................................................. 11
5.1 Power ON............................................................................................................................................. 11
5.2 Power OFF ........................................................................................................................................... 11
5.3 Print self-test sheet................................................................................................................................ 11
5.4 Feed paper ............................................................................................................................................ 11
5.5 Battery charging ................................................................................................................................... 11
5.6 Link to Bluetooth .................................................................................................................................. 11
5.7 Link to PC via USB cable ..................................................................................................................... 11
6 Printing position ............................................................................................................................................ 12
7 Interface (Micro-USB) .................................................................................................................................. 12
8 Faults handling ............................................................................................................................................. 13
8.1 Printer does not work ............................................................................................................................ 13
8.2 Problems when it is printing .................................................................................................................. 13

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1 Introduction
1.1 Brief introduction
P58A is a thermal receipt printer. It has good printing quality and high stability, which is widely
used in POS system, food service industry and many other fields.
P58A connects other devices with USB port or Bluetooth. It offers drivers for WINDOWS and
LINUX operating systems.
The supported operating systems are as below:
WINDOWS XP
WINDOWS 7 32/64
WINDOWS 8
UBUNTU 12.04 32/64
UBUNTU 14.04 32/64
1.2 Main features
1) Battery power, easy move.
2) Low noise and high printing speed.
3) Easy paper loading.
4) Easily use and maintain.
5) Support USB interface.
6) Support Bluetooth communication print.

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2 Outline & Parts
2.1 Outline

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2.2 Parts
2.3 Accessories
Battery Battery charger Paper roll USB Cable
Note: Please make sure everything is in good status when you open the package.
Otherwise, please contact to your distributor in time.

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3 Specifications
3.1 Specifications
Item Parameter
Printing parameter
Printing method Thermal printing
Resolution 203DPI,8 dots/mm
Printing width 48mm(384dots)
Printing speed About 70-80mm/s
Interfaces Standard: USB interface
Wireless Communication : Bluetooth
Command set / ESC/POS compatible commands
Storage RAM Receive buffer area 4K Bytes
FLASH FLASH 4M bytes, NV bitmap 64K bytes
Characters
Chinese GB18030 24×24
Words, figures ASCII 9×17,12×24
User-defined Support
Code pages
Optional international character sets 45
TRADITIONAL CHINESE
CHINESE
CP437 [U.S.A., Standard Europe]
Katakana
CP850 [Multilingual]
CP860 [Portuguese]
CP863 [Canadian-French]
CP865 [Nordic]
WCP1251 [Cyrillic]
CP866 Cyrillic #2
MIK[Cyrillic /Bulgarian]
CP755 [East Europe，Latvian 2]
Iran
CP862 [Hebrew]
WCP1252 Latin I
WCP1253 [Greek]
CP852 [Latina 2]
CP858 Multilingual Latin Ⅰ+Euro)
Iran II
Latvian
CP864 [Arabic]
ISO-8859-1 [West Europe]
CP737 [Greek]
WCP1257 [Baltic]
Thai
CP720[Arabic]
CP855
CP857[Turkish]
WCP1250[Central Europe]

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CP775
WCP1254[Turkish]
WCP1255[Hebrew]
WCP1256[Arabic]
WCP1258[Vietnam]
ISO-8859-2[Latin 2]
ISO-8859-3[Latin 3]
ISO-8859-4[Baltic]
ISO-8859-5[Cyrillic]
ISO-8859-6[Arabic]
ISO-8859-7[Greek]
ISO-8859-8[Hebrew]
ISO-8859-9[Turkish]
ISO-8859-15 [Latin 3]
Thai2
CP856
Chart /
Supports different density dots and images printings
Supports grating bitmap printing
Supports download bitmap printing, every bitmap size should less
than 64K, and the total capacity of download bitmap is 64K.
Bar codes 1D UPC-A、UPC-E、EAN-8、EAN13、CODE39、ITF、CODEB
AR、CODE128、CODE93
2D QR Code
Detection function
Sensor Paper out
LED indicator
Power indicator Red
Battery indicator Green
GPRS indicator Blue
Thermal paper
Type Standard thermal receipt paper
Width 57.5±0.5mm
Thickness 0.065~0.1mm
Diameter 38mm(Max.)
Physical
characteristics
Paper loading Easy paper loading
Paper cutting Manual cut paper
Operating condition
-10℃ ~ 50℃，25% ~ 80%RH
Storage condition ~40℃ ~ 70℃，≤93%RH（40℃）
Outline dimension 97.5mm×75mm×48mm（W×L×H）
Weight 0.2Kg
Reliability TPH life 50km
Motor life 360,000 hours
Software function
Driver procedure Windows（WIN7/WIN8/Vista/XP/2000）
Ubuntu 12.04 32/64, Ubuntu 14.04 32/64

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3.2 Printing material requirements
3.2.1 Paper parameters
Paper type: thermal receipt paper
Paper width: 57±0.5 mm
Paper roll diameter: 38 mm (Max.)
Paper thickness: 0.065mm ~ 0.10mm
3.2.2 Printing paper using attention
Note:
1) Please use good quality paper, otherwise, it will effect printing quality and even reduce printer
head life.
2) Don’t make the paper stick on axis.
3) Paper will be fading out or reduced thermal sensitivity if it is polluted by chemical or oil, which
will affect printing effects.
4) Don’t use nail or hard things to clash printing paper. Otherwise, it will be fading out.
5) Paper will be fading out if the environment temperature exceeds 70°C. So, please take notice
the temperature, humidity and illumination effects.

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4 Use-methods
4.1 Requirements of installation position
1) Put the printer on a stably place.
2) Let the printer far away from water, fire, and sunlight.
3) Avoid putting it on oscillatory and impassive place.
4) Make sure to connect printer with ground safety
4.2 Preparation before using
4.2.1 Battery installation
4.3 Paper roll loading
4.3.1 Printing paper type confirmation
You can load paper roll to print after power ON and connecting communication cables. Please
make sure the printing paper type before printing. The default paper type is continuous thermal
receipt paper.
4.3.2 Loading or change paper roll
1) Power off the printer;
2) Turn up the cover.

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3) According to the figure in the right direction to roll paper bin.
4) Draw out a section paper, and leave some on the paper out month, then close the storehouse
cover.
4) The status after close the storehouse cover.
2. Load Paper in the direction
shown by the arrow

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4.4 indicator
Indicator Status Description
Power indicator
ON Printer is power on
OFF Printer is power on
Flicker Printer is waiting status
Battery indicator OFF Power enough
Flicker Low power
Bluetooth indicator ON Linked
OFF No link
Operation/ Status Power
indicator
Battery
indicator
Bluetooth
indicator Buzzer
Power on ON OFF Beep 1 times
Power off OFF OFF Beep 2 times
Standby status Slowly flicker
OFF
Feed ON OFF Beep 1 times
Print paper enough ON OFF
Less paper or open cover
Slowly flicker
Slowly flicker
Bluetooth linked ON OFF ON
Battery low power (20%)
OFF Slowly flicker
Beep 4 times by 60s
Battery charging OFF Quickly flicker
Beep 1 times
Fully charged ON ON
Note: Printer detects printer head temperature via thermal resistance. It will cut off print head power and
stop printing if print head is overheat. The print head protection temperature is 80℃.

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5 Basic functions
5.1 Power ON
When the printer is power off, press down [POWER] button and hold for 2 seconds, then the
printer will power on and enter working status, and the power indicator light (red).
5.2 Power OFF
When the printer is power on, press the [POWER] button and hold for 2 seconds, then the
printer will power off the power supply and the power indicator light turns off.
5.3 Print self-test sheet
1) Make sure the printer loaded paper roll correctly.
2) Press down [FEED] button and hold on, then press down [POWER] button to power on the
printer, the printer will print a self-test sheet.
5.4 Feed paper
When the printer is in normal working condition, press the [FEED] button, then the printer will
feed a section paper.
5.5 Battery charging
If the printer’s battery indicator (green) is flickering and print paper is enough, it indicating
that the printer’s battery is about to running out of electricity, if you still want to use the printer,
please replaces the printer’s battery or charges it as soon as possible.
For safety reasons, please power off the printer while battery charging. Also, you can use the
P58A special charging seat to charge the battery.
Charging status indicator (Green) ON: Charging
OFF: Fully charged or battery is not install
Note:
Specifications of Power adapter (for battery charging):
Input: 100-240VAC, 50/60Hz, 0.3A, Output: 12V, 1.0A

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5.6 Link to Bluetooth
The printer is provided with a Bluetooth communication function. Support communication
with Bluetooth devices using Android systems or Apple systems.
Bluetooth connection method: after the printer power on and enter normal work status, search
the printer with Bluetooth communications equipment, select the corresponding printer, enter the
password "0000" to finish connecting.
5.7 Link to PC via USB cable
Connecting to PC by USB cable which attached by printer. If the operation system of PC is
Windows XP or above, under normal circumstances no longer need to install the driver.
6 Printing position
L1-Paper storehouse’s width: 58±0.5mm
L2-Effective printing width: 48mm
L3-Distance between print head to paper storehouse’s left edge (fixed width): 4±0.3mm
L4-Distance between print head to paper storehouse’s right edge (fixed width): 4±0.3mm
L5-Left margin: Default is 4mm
L6-Printing area width: it is set by commands (refer to programming manual), default is 48mm.
L7-Right margin: Default is 4mm.
7 Interface (Micro-USB)

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8 Faults handling
Please refer to the methods as below when printer can’t work normally. Please contact your
supplier directly, if it still doesn’t work normally.
8.1 Printer does not work
Problems Probably reasons Solutions
Power indicator is not light,
printer does not work.
Battery without electricity Charge battery
Printer is power off Power on the printer
Printer is damaged Contact to your supplier or factory directly
8.2 Problems when it is printing
problems Probably reasons solutions
Color strips occur on
the paper Paper maybe run out Load a new paper roll.
Printing is not clear or
have dirty spots
Paper roll loading incorrectly Check paper roll loading correctly or not
Paper can’t meet the requirements Use the recommended thermal paper
Print head or printer rubber roller is
dirty
Clean print head or printer rubber roller by soft
cotton stick with alcohol
Printing density sets too light Increase printing density to satisfy the
requirements
Paper can output
normally Paper jam Open upper cover or check paper feed channel to get to know paper jam.
Printing contents get
lost
Print head or printer rubber rollers is
dirty
Clean print head or printer rubber roller by soft
cotton stick with alcohol
Print head damaged Contact to your supplier or factory directly

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FCC Warning:
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B
digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to
provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not
installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference
to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not
occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to
radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off
and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the
following measures:
•Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
•Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
•Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the
receiver is connected.
•Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
Caution: Any changes or modifications to this device not explicitly approved by
manufacturer could void your authority to operate this equipment.
This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the
following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2)
this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may
cause undesired operation.