Epson Tm-u220 Receipt Printer Driver Download
Hebe Zuelke
Note: If you have installed and configured the printer driver as instructed and still have problems printing receipts over 11 inches in length, follow these instructions to modify your Point of Success receipt template:
I have a problem getting printer redirection to work over a remote desktop connection, with one specific printer only. It is an EPSON TM-U220A, a dot matrix receipt printer which is connected via serial port. Both client and "server" are Windows 7 Professional x64.
I have set up quite a number of different printers for remote desktop use, in all cases the main problem was installing exactly the same printer driver on both client and server. But in this case, I triple checked and I am 100% sure that the driver name matches, architecture matches, OS matches - I have no idea what the problem is.
There is compatibility list on printer driver support site. Sometime another driver for another printer model work in remote desktop but you can have weird problems like bad character or black images etc.
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Terminal Services (Remote Desktop Services) \Terminal Server (Session Host) \ Printer Redirection \ Use Terminal Services (RDS) Easy Print printer driver first: Disabled
Try to print from another program see if that works. Keep in mind that is 100% not samba. Its either hardware issue with the printer or usb ports on desktop which I highly doubt, I think its your setup in windows when you installed the driver or most likely how you setup the printer in samba,
Someone else who had a similar issue posted this. Do you think that could of been your case too?
PROBLEM SOLVED
The issue was bound to the fact that when I initially plugged in the printer without the Epson drivers installed, windows created registry entries relating to the hardware ID and associated the wrong driver. Even when I uninstalled both the epson hardware and the windows associated driver it left the registry entries untouched so when I plugged the device in again it went straight to them.
I had to restore the factory install of windows to its initial state (but Im sure a restore point just before the printer was ever plugged in, or manually deleting all of the relevant reg keys would have sufficed). Then I had to install the driver before plugging in the printer. Otherwise nothing works ever.