This software is the Windows printer driver for Star TUP500.
Installing this printer driver allows you to use the standard print functionality found in most Windows applications.
You must create a printer queue in order to use the printer driver's functions. You can create a printer queue with the following procedure.
As soon as the printer queue is created, you are able to change the printer settings. Change the printer settings with the following procedure.
You can configure different printer functions according to each printer queue.
Your printer driver supports 'Line' and 'Raster'. Using a different 'Print Mode' enables different usage and features.
It is possible to print graphical data at high-speed with 'Raster' mode. There are some functions such as Device Fonts that are only available in the 'Line' mode.
The available functions in each mode are as follows. Click the function names link for detailed descriptions.
Device Settings | Line | Raster |
---|---|---|
Paper Type | OK | OK |
Print Speed | OK | OK |
Print Density | OK | OK |
Print Position | × | OK |
Reverse Printing | × | OK |
Data Treatment Recover From Error | OK | OK |
Top Search | × | OK |
Black Mark Detect at Power On | OK | OK |
Scaling | × | OK |
Paper Cut | OK | OK |
Print NVLogo | OK | × |
Print Soft Logo | × | OK |
Presenter Function (TUP592 Only) | OK | OK |
Snout Function (TUP592 Only) | OK | OK |
Other Functions | Line | Raster |
---|---|---|
Paper Size | OK | OK |
Print Quality | OK | OK |
Device Fonts | OK | × |
Printer Busy Timeout | OK | OK |
The 'Device Settings' tab of your printer queue's properties window contains many different settings. Open the 'Device Settings' tab with the following procedure.
The description of the contents for each function is listed below.
You can choose either 'Line' or 'Raster' for your document.
'Raster' is selected as the default setting. The printer driver functions are different according to these print mode settings. For detailed information please refer to the information Here.
It is recommended that you choose 'Raster' mode for the USB interface and 'Line' mode for the Serial interface, as this way you take maximum advantage of the specification of your printer.
Three kinds of 'Paper Type' setting allow you to print variable-length 'Receipt', fixed-length 'Ticket', or 'Black Mark' delimited pages.
Use the 'Receipt' option if your print jobs vary in length and you want them cut immediately following the last line. (You may set your receipt paper size at Paper Size)
Use the 'Ticket' option if you want your print jobs to have a consistent length that you set via Paper Size. The paper will be cut when it reaches your set value.
Use the 'Black Mark' option if you want the printer to cut the paper based on black marks.
This setting controls how fast the printer prints.
For normal use, select the 'Standard' option. When the priority for print quality is higher than print speed, the 'Low' option should be selected.
When the priority for print speed is higher than print quality, the 'High' option should be selected. However, if the 'High' option is selected, restrictions may apply to the paper width or paper roll outside diameter.
This setting controls how dark the printer prints.
For normal use, select the 'Standard' option. If you want the printing lighter, adjust to '-1' , '-2' or '-3'. If you want the printing darker, adjust to '+1' , '+2' or '+3'.
This setting controls the print position.
If the print area is different to the paper size when anything other than 100% has been set for the scaling factor, you can specify which part of the print area to print.
To print the paper width from the left edge of the print area, select 'Left'. To print the paper width from the middle of the print area, select 'Center'. To print the paper width from the right edge of the print area, select 'Right'.
The paper is aligned with the minimum Pre-defined Paper Size that can accommodate the print area calculated from the specified scaling factor and paper size.
Configure the 'Reverse Print' setting to 'Enable' to print upside-down.
When an error occurs, you can handle the unprinted data which has already been sent to the printer as below.
If you want to cancel the unprinted data after the recovery from the error, select 'Clear Data By Document' and check 'Enable bidirectional support' box at the 'Ports' tab of 'Printer properties'.
If you want to print the unprinted data continuously after the recovery from the error, select 'Store Data' and uncheck 'Enable bidirectional support' box.
Setting this feature to 'Enable' will cause the printer to reverse feed the paper before printing, minimising the unprintable top margin.
When using black mark paper, setting this feature to 'Enable' will cause the black mark position to be detected at power on.
This setting controls the enlargement or reduction percentage.
You can set a scaling factor between 20% and 200%.
The 'Page Bottom' setting controls how all of the pages of your print job are cut, except the last page.
If you do not want the pages of your document to be cut, choose the 'No Cut' option. When you want your print job to be fully cut, choose the 'Full Cut'.
The 'Document Cut Type' setting controls how the last page of your print job is cut.
If you do not want your print job to be cut, choose the 'No Cut' option. When you want your print job to be fully cut, choose the 'Full Cut'.
If you want all of the pages in your document to be fully cut, choose 'Full Cut All Pages'. If you want only the last page of your document to be fully cut without each of the other pages in your document being cut, choose 'Full Cut Last Page'.
NVLogo is a function that prints on pages or documents logo data that has been registered into the printer using the logo registration function of printer utility.
Before starting this setting, you must register your logo into your printer. For details, please refer to Logo Store Help for Printer Utility.
This sets the position and data of a logo if you want to print it at the top of a document.
To print a logo left-aligned, select 'Left'. To print it centered, select 'Center'. To print it right-aligned, select 'Right'. You can also set the number of the logo data that you want to print in 'Registration Number'.
Any logo that you choose here will be printed at the top of the first page of the document.
If you select 'No Use', the logo will not be printed at the top of the document.
This sets the position and data of a logo if you want to print it at the top of a page.
To print a logo left-aligned, select 'Left'. To print a logo center-aligned, select 'Center'. To print a logo right-aligned, select 'Right'. You can also set the number of the logo data that you want to print in 'Registration Number'.
Any logo that you choose here will be printed at the top of the page.
If you select 'No Use', the logo will not be printed at the top of the page.
This sets the position and data of a logo if you want to print it at the bottom of a page.
To print a logo left-aligned, select 'Left'. To print a logo center-aligned, select 'Center'. To print a logo right-aligned, select 'Right'. You can also set the number of the logo data that you want to print in 'Registration Number'.
Any logo that you choose here will be printed at the bottom of the page.
By configuring it to the 'No Use' option, the logo will not be printed at the bottom of the page.
This sets the position and data of a logo if you want to print it at the end of a document.
To print a logo left-aligned, select 'Left'. To print a logo center-aligned, select 'Center'. To print a logo right-aligned, select 'Right'. You can also set the number of the logo data that you want to print in 'Registration Number'.
Any logo that you choose here will be printed at the bottom of the last page of the document.
If you select 'No Use', the logo will not be printed at the end of the document.
Soft Logo is a function that prints data saved to a PC as a logo on a document or page.
It saves the printed output from the printer to a PC as raster logo data and allows you to use it as a logo. With this printer driver, the logo data created using this method is referred to as SRL data.
You can also use BMP data saved to a PC as a logo.
You can use the data that is used by Soft Logo by saving it in a folder for each print position at a specified location (Startup drive:/Star/(print queue name)/StarRasterLogoData/). To use it as BMP data, save the file name as consecutive numbers starting from 0.
If you select 'Generate - ...' whenever logo data is set, and then print the content that you want to turn into a logo, the same data as the printed output is saved in SRL format in a folder at a specified location each time the data is printed.
You can save the printed output of multiple pages as multiple pieces of logo data. If logo data is saved when SRL data has already been saved, the saved SRL data is deleted and overwritten by the new logo data.
Click the 'Test Print' button to print all the SRL data that has been saved in the folder specified when 'Generate - ...' was selected.
If you select 'Print Mode', Soft Logo printing will be performed whenever logo data is set.
If you select 'All - BMP', all BMP data in the 'StartDoc' folder at the specified location will be printed at the top of the document. If you select 'All - SRL', all SRL data in the 'StartDoc' folder at the specified location will be printed at the top of the document. If you select 'Sequential - BMP', the BMP data in the 'StartDoc' folder at the specified location will be printed sequentially at the top of the document. If you select 'Sequential - SRL', the SRL data in the 'StartDoc' folder at the specified location will be printed sequentially at the top of the document.
If you select 'No Use', Soft Logo printing will not be performed at the top of the document.
If you select 'All - BMP', all BMP data in the 'StartPage' folder at the specified location will be printed at the top of the page. If you select 'All - SRL', all SRL data in the 'StartPage' folder at the specified location will be printed at the top of the page. If you select 'Sequential - BMP', the BMP data in the 'StartPage' folder at the specified location will be printed sequentially at the top of the page. If you select 'Sequential - SRL', the SRL data in the 'StartPage' folder at the specified location will be printed sequentially at the top of the page.
If you select 'No Use', Soft Logo printing will not be performed at the top of the page.
If you select 'All - BMP', all BMP data in the 'EndPage' folder at the specified location will be printed at the bottom of the page. If you select 'All - SRL', all SRL data in the 'EndPage' folder at the specified location will be printed at the bottom of the page. If you select 'Sequential - BMP', the BMP data in the 'EndPage' folder at the specified location will be printed sequentially at the bottom of the page. If you select 'Sequential - SRL', the SRL data in the 'EndPage' folder at the specified location will be printed sequentially at the bottom of the page.
If you select 'No Use', Soft Logo printing will not be performed at the bottom of the page.
If you select 'All - BMP', all BMP data in the 'EndDoc' folder at the specified location will be printed at the bottom of the document. If you select 'All - SRL', all SRL data in the 'EndDoc' folder at the specified location will be printed at the bottom of the document. If you select 'Sequential - BMP', the BMP data in the 'EndDoc' folder at the specified location will be printed sequentially at the end of the document. If you select 'Sequential - SRL', the SRL data in the 'EndDoc' folder at the specified location will be printed sequentially at the end of the document.
If you select 'No Use', Soft Logo printing will not be performed at the end of the document.
You can configure various settings related to the presenter installed in the TUP592.
Set the operation of the presenter.
If you select 'Loop - Hold', the presenter ejects the paper after printing ends, then holds the trailing end of the paper and waits.
If you select 'NoLoop - Hold', the presenter ejects the paper during printing, then holds the trailing end of the paper and waits.
If you select 'NoLoop - NoHold', the presenter ejects all the paper during printing. The paper is not held.
Set whether the presenter retracts the paper or ejects all the paper.
If you set 'Do Not Retract', the presenter does not retract the paper or eject all the paper but holds the paper until it is removed.
If you set 'Retract', the presenter retracts the paper when the time set in Presenter - Paper Hold Time elapses.
If you set 'Eject', the presenter ejects all the paper when the time set in Presenter - Paper Hold Time elapses.
For the operation to retract the paper or eject all the paper, set the time from when the presenter holds the paper to when the presenter retracts the paper or ejects all the paper.
You can set a value from 1 to 127 seconds.
You can configure various settings related to the snout (LEDs) provided as an option for the TUP592.
Set the operation of the snout (LEDs).
If you set 'Disable', the snout is not used. If you set 'GREEN Enable', the green snout LED flashes during printing. If you set 'RED Enable', the red snout LED flashes when there is an error (no paper, etc.). If you set 'GREEN and RED Enable', the green snout LED flashes during printing, and the red snout LED flashes when there is an error (no paper, etc.).
Set the interval for flashing of the green snout LED.
You can set a value from 0.05 to 12.75 seconds.
Set the interval for flashing of the red snout LED.
You can set a value from 0.05 to 12.75 seconds.
This driver provides you with several Pre-defined Paper Sizes.
You can also create custom paper sizes with User-defined Paper Size using the Windows Printer Queue.
Each paper size is defined to be a specific width and height which denotes the printable area. You need not apply any margins to your documents.
The paper size(s) that include the word 'Receipt' in their name are intended for variable length print jobs, like receipts; when using this paper size be sure to choose the 'Receipt' option of the Paper Type setting.
Your paper size configuration may be changed according to the current configuration of the applications you are using.
If there is not any paper size configuration within your application, please use the following setting. It is recommended that you configure the same value in 3 locations.
The pre-defined paper sizes provided by the TUP500 Printer Driver are shown below.
Configuration Value | Default Value | Printing Width | Length |
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80mm x 200mm | 80mm | 200mm | |
80mm x Receipt | 80mm | 3,000mm | |
72mm x 200mm | 72mm | 200mm | |
72mm x Receipt | ○ | 72mm | 3,000mm |
68mm x 200mm | 68mm | 200mm | |
68mm x Receipt | 68mm | 3,000mm | |
51mm x 200mm | 51mm | 200mm | |
51mm x Receipt | 51mm | 3,000mm | |
Star Thermal 80mm x A4 | 80mm | 297mm | |
Star Thermal 3inch x Letter | 80mm | 11inch |
To create user-defined paper sizes, you can use the Windows Printer Queue function and follow the procedure below.
The paper sizes provided by the TUP500 Printer Driver are shown below.
The user-defined paper size is in the following range.
Paper Size | TUP542 | TUP592 | |
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Paper Width | Minimum Value | 45mm | 45mm |
Maximum Value | 80mm | 80mm | |
Paper Height | Minimum Value | 25.4mm | 75mm |
Maximum Value | 3276.7mm | 300.0mm |
This printer driver provides the ability to change the Print Quality in order to change the print resolution.
You can configure it in the 'Print Mode' dialog by choosing the 'Raster' setting.
The following is the procedure.
You may select from the following options.
Configuration Value | Default Value | Details |
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203 x 406 dots per inch | Print 203dpi (Width) 406dpi (Height). | |
203 x 203 dots per inch | ○ | Print 203dpi (Width) 203dpi (Height). |
Your printer supports a range of printer resident and barcode fonts. These fonts are built into your printer and are selectable from within your application.
You can use these when the 'Print Mode' option is set to the 'Line' setting.
Using printer fonts, you can get both high printing quality and high printing speed. The barcode fonts allow you to print barcodes by simply applying one of the barcode fonts to a section of your document; the text in that section describing the barcode's layout and data. The control font allows you to control various aspects of the printers behaviour, with specific behaviours mapped to specific characters printed using the control font.
Click Here to open another help page describing these fonts in greater detail.
If the state in which the printer cannot accept data from the host (busy state) continues for this length of time, an error occurs for the print job and the remaining data is deleted.
Also, when the serial interface, parallel interface, or USB interface is used, this time is also used as the printer error detection time during printing.
When using the presenter (TUP592 only) for printing multiple jobs or pages, set the printer busy timeout to a number of seconds that is longer than the expected presenter wait time.
The following is the procedure.
TUP500
Windows XP SP3 or later (32bit only)
Windows Vista (32bit/64bit)
Windows 7 (32bit/64bit)
Windows 8 (32bit/64bit)*
Windows 8.1 (32bit/64bit)*
* For details, see the Installation Manual.
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