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If  Serial is selected, you will then have to enter a channel number, this
refers to the 2 standard channels on the machines, or the optional
channels on a serial interface card.
Because these machines use shared printing it is unlikely that you will
ever need additional channels.
        
If net is chosen for the printer interface type then you have to enter the
RPT number, this refers to the remote network kitchen printer this will be
numbered 1 to 9.

The next header is called type this refers to the printer name.
The name that is entered here is checked for in a file called
PRINTER.DEF
In this file the codes are set so the printout can be customized to your
requirements.
For example you may want extra line feeds, or large print, or bold print,
this can be set by editing the printer.def file and entering codes, that can
be found in the printers manual.

The remaining 2 headers on this screen are titled lines and top margin,
these only refer to slip printers and the lines refers to the number of 
lines available for the printing area, the top margin refers to the initial line
feed on the slip.
This would be useful for pre printed stationary.

After the Printer Configuration set up the next  selection choice on the
menu is Till Configuration.

There are quite a lot of settings on this screen. I will start with the Till
number. By entering a till number here  the configuration of that machine
will appear on the screen. All of the machines in the system have their
own unique configuration file

The terminal number of each machine is stored in a separate area. this
is in a file called rincs dot cfg.
The number that has been set in this file determines which configuration
file will be looked at.

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For example if a terminal number of 2 is set in the rincs.cfg file then the
configuration file with till number 2 will be looked at, this allows things
like a particular till to look at a specific keyboard number or to print at a
specific printer.

The mode selection determines whether you want this machine to be
bar and table, table only or bar only.
The table only is the same as having compulsory GLU on other Sharp
models, in other words you can only perform table transactions.
The bar only mode selection will not allow any table transactions, and
the bar and table will allow both types of transactions.

The till name will appear on various print outs, the most important being
at the kitchen printers, to inform the staff where the order was placed.

The maximum table number and minimum table number refers to the
table range that this particular machine will get access to, for example
you could set this machine to access only tables numbered 1 to 10
whilst another machine in the system could be set to only use tables 11
to 20.

The maximum quantity setting refers to the maximum quantity that can

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entered against a product in a single entry. This will prevent servers
accidently entering large quantities against a product.

The VIP price band is next, this can be set between 1 and 4. When the
server then presses the VIP key, the products will be sold at the band
you select here.

The default price band is next this can also be set between 1 and 4 on
each machine.
The machine  will then sell its products at the price band you have
selected. This price band can also be changed from the main menu but
will revert back to the setting here after a close session is performed.

The auto Receipt selection will determine whether this machine will
produce a receipt automatically at the end of each transaction.

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The receipt information refers to a transaction that has been finalized.
The details will remain in memory of the machine until they are over
written by the same combination of server and table, or server for a bar
transaction.
For example if server 1 has finalized table 10 the receipt information will
remain in memory until server 1 starts another transaction for table 10.
Therefore previous receipts can be produced.

The printer configuration settings allows you to select which machine will
perform the printing of products from this machine.
For example if against receipt you select 1 this means that all the
receipt printing for this machine will be sent to machine 1 then printed.
This feature is called shared printing.

It is the same procedure for the other types of printing, which are Bill,
Audit, Report and Cheque. Incidentally if you are not using the TM-U950
Cheque printer you will need to set the Cheque printing to number 99.
By setting 99 the printing for this machine will not take place.

The Order printing is the next area. The order printers are the kitchen
printers. There are up to 9 printers to be set up, again the number you
set against each printer is the machine number that will control the print
out.

The Auditing and logging selections are next, the difference between
these two, is that  auditing information is sent to an audit printer, where
as the logging will send the information to a file so it will be stored
electronically.

The 3 fields are the same on both audit and logging, they are, functions,
transactions and products.
The functions can be set to yes or no.
You will remember earlier on when we covered the functions screen,
that you could select  yes or no against each function, for Audit or for
log, if the functions were set as yes and the functions here is set to yes,
then each time that function is pressed it will be printed on the audit
printer or logged in log file. 

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A practical example of the benefits of this would be that management
could keep a track of all the no sales carried out, without lots of other
printing on the audit roll.

The Transaction field can be set to Y, N or T the Y being yes, N being
no and T being tables.
The transaction details are the paid off details so if you set transactions
to T then whenever a table is finalized  the total amount and payment
type will be printed for audit or stored for log.       

The Products field refers to the complete details of the transaction this
would be set to yes if you wanted  full auditing to take place.

The Products field can also be set to Yes No or Tables.

The cursor will next appear on the Server Stay down option .
If yes is selected the server will remain logged on for the next
transaction after the current transaction has finished.

If No is selected  a server will have to be allocated at the start of each
transaction. This feature is popular in pubs.

The cash declaration can be set to yes or no.
If yes is selected then the server must declare the Money in the drawer
before a close session report can be taken.
The server would enter the amount against each denomination. The
EPoS would then add these amounts together. This amount would then
be compared with the actual taking’s and if any difference is found a
variance will be reported.

The log file is an area that is used to store transactions data as we
discussed earlier. There is a total area of 198k of memory.
If you decide not to use the log facility then this should be set to zero.

The next selection is that of keyboard number.
The number you enter here is the keyboard that will be active for this
machine, So you could use keyboard number 1 at this machine and
keyboard number 2  at another machine and so on, we discussed