SPRT SP-POS5810 User manual

SPRT®
SP-POS5810
Thermal Printer
User’s Manual
（VER1.00）
Beijing Spirit Technology Development Co, Ltd.
www.sprt-printer.com

Content
Chapter 1 Characteristics and Specification............................................................................................1
1.1 Printing specification..................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Printing Paper.................................................................................................................................1
1.3 Printing Font................................................................................................................................... 1
1.4 Interface.......................................................................................................................................... 1
1.5 Printing Control Command...........................................................................................................2
1.6 Power Supply................................................................................................................................. 2
1.7 Operation Environment.................................................................................................................2
1.8 Outline Dimension & Weight........................................................................................................2
Chapter 2 Installation and Operation........................................................................................................ 3
2.1 Printer Appearance........................................................................................................................3
2.2 Paper Installation........................................................................................................................... 4
2.3 Interface Connection..................................................................................................................... 4
2.3.1 USB interface......................................................................................................................4
2.3.2 Cash Drawer Interface...................................................................................................... 5
2.3.3 Power Connection..............................................................................................................5
2.4 Buttons and Indicators.................................................................................................................. 5
2.4.1 Power switch....................................................................................................................... 5
2.4.2 Feed Button.........................................................................................................................5
2.4.3 Opening Upper Cover Button...........................................................................................6
2.4.4 Power indicator light (Green)........................................................................................... 6
2.4.5 Status Indicator light and Buzzer.....................................................................................6
2.5 Self-test........................................................................................................................................... 6
2.6 Hexadecimal Dump....................................................................................................................... 7
2.7 Upgrade Mode............................................................................................................................... 7
Chapter 3 Driver Installation ..................................................................................................................... 7
Appendix 1 Performance Index..................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
SP-POS5810 is a new type thermal line printer. It features in fast printing speed, low
noise, good reliability, high quality. And the ribbon is needless, this will avoid the
vexation of regular maintenance.
SP-POS5810 printer is widely used in many fields because of its small size and
simple operation, especially suitable for commercial cash register, PC-POS, bank
POS and various receipts printing.

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Chapter 1 Characteristics and Specification
1.1 Printing specification
● Printing method: direct thermal
● Printing paper width: 57.5±0.5mm
● Printing density: 8 dots/mm, 384 dots/line
● Printing speed: approx. 60mm/s (valid content per line isn’t over 25%)
● Reliability:
Printing head life span:50km
Operating Conditions:
＊Print 12 × 24 ASCII characters, 50 lines every time, intermittent and repeated
＊Each dot-line printing at the same time should not exceed 25%, for each
character-line’s one dot, vertical and repeated printing can not exceed 11 times
＊Use specified thermal paper
●Effective printing width: 48mm
1.2 Printing Paper
● Paper Type: General Thermal Paper 57.5xΦ60 mm（MAX）
● Paper Thickness －－－0.06-0.08mm
● Paper Installation: Drop-in Easy Loading
● Paper Cutting Method: Manual
1.3 Printing Font
● ANK Character set:
12×24 dots, 1.5（W）× 3.00（H）mm;
● GB2312-80(Chinese):
24×24 dots, 3.00（W）× 3.00（H）mm.
1.4 Interface
● USB interface:

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Standard B type USB interface (Female).
● Cash drawer control
DC12V, 1A, 6-pin RJ-11 socket
1.5 Printing Control Command
● Character print command: supports double width and double height
printing of ANK characters, user-defined characters and Chinese characters,
the space between character lines is adjustable.
● Bitmap print command: supports the printing of bit map with different densities.
● GS bar code print command: supports UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-13, EAN-8, CODE39,
ITF25, CODABAR, CODE93, CODE128.
1.6 Power Supply
● 110VAC ~220VAC 50Hz,1A
1.7 Operation Environment
● Operation environment temperature: 0～50℃
Relative humidity: 10～80％
● Storage temperature: -20～60℃
Relative humidity: 10～90%
1.8 Dimension and Weight
● Dimension: 175 (L) X 117 (W) X 99 (H) mm
● Weight: 460g (roll paper is not included)

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Chapter 2 Installation and Operation
2.1 Printer Appearance
Printer appearance like below Fig 2－1－1,Fig 2－1－2.
Fig2－1－1 Printer Appearance
Printing
R
Paper Case Cover
Plastic Case
Power
Indicato
r
Status Indicator
Feed
Power
Button

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Fig2－1－2 Printer appearance (back)
2.2 Paper Installation
SP-POS5810 adopts 58mm width thermal paper.
The installation steps are as below:
1. When there is no paper, pls don’t press 【FEED】button to avoid affecting the
printing head life span. Press open button to open the case cover and put paper.
2. After paper case cover is closed, pls don’t draw the paper forwards or insert paper
backwards by hand.
2.3 Interface Connection
2.3.1 USB interface
Standard B type USB interface(Female)
Power Interface
USB Interface
Cash Drawer Interface

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2.3.2 Cash Drawer Interface
The cash drawer interface of SP-POS5810 is RJ-11, 6pin socket, as below,
Fig2－3－1 Cash Drawer Interface
The pin assignment of the cash drawer interface is as follows:
Pin No.
Signal
Direction
1
Chassis Ground
---
2
Cash drawer driver signal
Out
3
Cash drawer on/off status signal
In
4
+12V DC
Out
5
N.C
---
6
Cash drawer on/off status signal
ground
---
Table2－3－2 The pin assignment of the cash drawer interface
2.3.3 Power Connection
SP-POS5810 uses external power supply as 110VAC~220VAC, 50Hz, 1A,
2.4 Buttons and Indicators
2.4.1 Power switch
ON/OFF status of power. is off . Press “－”is on.
2.4.2 Feed Button
【FEED】is the feed button. Print command can allow or forbid 【FEED】on/off

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status . Under allowance status, hold down【FEED】to start paper feeding, release
the button to stop.
2.4.3 Open Upper Cover Button
Hold the paper case cover and pull up to open it.
2.4.4 Power indicator light (Green)
Status of the Power indicator light: If the power is on, the indicator light will be on.
2.4.5 Status Indicator light (Red) and Buzzer
The indicator light will alarm for error status.Under normal working, red STATUS light
is off. If abnormal working status happens, the light will flicker to alarm error.
Buzzer can also alarm the abnormal working status by parameter setting. Its error
status type is same with STATUS indicator light.
When error indicator light flickers, the buzzer alarms (under the buzzer on status),
that means error occurs on the printer. Different flickering ways represent different
errors.
Error status indicating method
Light status
Buzzer status
Printer Working status
Off
Off
Normal
Flicker 1 time and stay 1s
off
Alarm 1 time
and stay 1s off
Paper out and waiting for loading
paper
Flicker 2 times and stay
1s off
Alarm 2 times
and stay 1s off
Print head is overheated and just
wait a while when it gets back to
normal temperature.
Flicker 3 times and stay
1s off
Alarm 3 times
and stay 1s off
Thermal print head is damaged,
needs repairing.
Table 2－4
2.5 Self-test
The self-test can check the condition of printer. In the self-test, software version,
interface type, characters, etc will be printed in order. If the self-test receipt can be
printed out correctly, it means the printer works normally except the interface with
host. Otherwise, it needs to be repaired.

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Method of printing self-test: Press
【FEED】
button and turn on the power, then the red
indicator light will flicker at 1 time/s. Release the button within 3 times of flicker,
self-test begins automatically.
2.6 Hexadecimal Dump
Press 【FEED】button and turn on the power, the red indicator light will flicker at 1
time/s, after 3 times then release the button, the red light will go on flickering 3 times,
then the printer will print out 3 lines message as bellow:
Hexadecimal Dump
To terminate hexadecimal dump,
Press FEED button three times.
Under this mode, all the input content will be printed out as Hexadecimal data. Press
the 【FEED】button to feed one line each time. Press 3 times, *** Completed ***will
be printed out.
The Hexadecimal Dump print mode will be exit.
2.7 Upgrade Mode
Press 【FEED】button and turn on the power, the red indicator light will flicker at 1
time per second, after flickering 3 times then release the button. At this moment, the
printer enters into Mode Option Status. Then press 【FEED 】button 5 times
continuously and the press time interval must be within 3s. The indicator will flicker at
1s on and 1s off status.That means the printer has entered into Upgrade Mode
successfully.
Chapter 3 Printing Driver Installation
Printing driver for SP-POS5810 can be downloaded from our official website
(www.sprt-printer.com). The detailed path: Home page--
Service-Download-Driver-Windows driver receipt printer series. After downloading,
the driver name is SP-DRV2148. During the driver installation, choose printer model
as “58 thermal series”. For more operation details, pls refer to the manual.

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Appendix 1 Performance Index
Performance Index
Printing
Characte
ristics
Printing
method
Thermal line
Resolution
8dots/mm, 384dots/line
Printing speed
Max:60mm/s（25% Printing Density）
Effective
Printing Width
48mm
Paper Width
57.5 mm±0.5mm
Printing
support
Self-defined
Character
Yes
Image
Support Bitmap with Different Densities and
Downloaded Bitmap Printing
Chinese
GB18030(Chinese):24×24
ASCII
ASCII:9×17,12×24
Bar code
UPC-A；UPC-E；EAN-13；EAN-8；CODE39；
CODE93；
CODABAR；ITF25；CODE128
Interface
USB
Function
Support
Paper end Sensor, Black Mark Recognition, Overheat Protection,
Buzzer Alarm
Cash
Drawer
control
DC12V,1A,6 lineRJ-11 Socket
Power
supply
AC power
110V AC~220V AC , 1A

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Paper
Spec
Paper type
Thermal paper 57×Ø 60mm
Paper
thickness
0.06mm～0.08mm
Paper Supply
Method
Drop-in easy loading
Paper Cutting
Method
Manual
Physical
Dimension
175mm×117mm×99mm (L×W×H)
Weight
475 g （Without roll paper）
Environ
ment
Operation
Temp/Humidity
0～50℃（Operation Temp）/10～80%(Relative
Humidity)
Storage
Temp/Humidity
－20～60℃（Storage Temp）
/10～90% (Relative
Humidity)
Life/Reli
ability
TPH
50km
Warning
This is a class A product. It may cause radio interference
in the application environment. In this case, the practical measures
may be taken by users to resist this interference.