We currently have StarPrinter SP200 that we've had for 7 years. We wanted to bring up a second register and picked up another one on the internet. I thought it was the same as what we had, but it's not. I got the "new" printer in and hooked it up to the new system. I installed the OPOS printer driver, and tried a "health check" - nothing prints. I was going to swap it with our old one just to make sure the new one worked - that's when I found out they are not the same printer at all.
The original as I said we bought new 7 years ago. It has a parallel interface on the bottom of the unit (connected to the system unit with a standard parallel printer cable) along with an RJ11 type plug for a cable running to the cashdrawer. I have it configured as a "SP242FC" via the OPOS printer configuration, and health check does print to it. The bottom of the unit only has SP200 on the bottom along with serial number info.
The new printer has a 25-pin connector on the bottom and no RJ11 receptacle. I connected it to the parallel port on the system unit via a straight 25-pin cable. I tried defining the same to OPOS driver as a SP242FC. Like I said before, health check won't print. The bottom tag has SP200-2 and 212FD on another spot of the tag.
I went to the Star website and downloaded the latest driver just to make sure. It is version 1.8.1. It does not have SP212FD as a choice. I also downloaded the Win XP printer driver and installed it to see if anything works. It installed fine, but again, printing a test page does not print anything on the printer.
Any guidance will be appreciated.