Hi,
I have an Epson TM-30m thermal printer that I wanted to use to print order tickets. I run Square POS on Android (Samsung Galaxy Tab A8) and after inititally assuming I could jsut Bluetooth it, I found out that Android doesn't support Bluetooth printing (but iOS does? Grrr). My network setup is just a 5G sim card dongle, so no ethernet support into that so I tried to connect via USB using a USB-C OTG adapter.
After plugging everything in, Square recognised the printer (hooray!) but on every test print/order ticker print it craps out half way through printing either mashed together letters or random special characters and then giving me a "check printer network connection" error.
I've run every USB Anroid and Epson printer diagnositic/troubleshooting method in the Square Hardware guide, but no dice.
Does this just not work or is the OTG adapter maybe rubbish? I've never encountered a cheap USB accessory that didn't actually work though, they all seem very reliable!
Appreciate any help, can provide more info if needed.
Not sure what adaptor you're using?
But as the Epson doesn't have a host hub the cable to use would be a pretty standard USB C to USB B cable directly into the printer (port 3 in the diagram below). Is that how you'e all set up?
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