Kitchen printer is one of the equipment commonly used in the restaurant industry, which can facilitate the restaurant waiter to print out the guest menu, bills and other information. However, due to prolonged use or improper use may cause kitchen printer failure. Here is a brief introduction to several common kitchen printer failure and its solution.

1. Printer can not print normally

If the kitchen printer can not print, or the printer motor overheating, it may be due to the printer and the power supply is poorly connected or the use of ink cartridges or paper problems caused by. The solutions are generally the following:

1) Check whether the power supply is properly connected to ensure that the power supply is sufficient and stable.

2) Check whether the ink cartridge has enough ink, if you see the ink is lower than the display line should be timely purchase of new ink cartridges.

3) Check whether the printer is experiencing paper jamming and other situations, clean up the kitchen printer inside the paper residue and other debris.

2. Printer print content of a variety of problems

In the process of printing menus, bills, there may be some text, pictures and other aspects of the problem, such as printing out the contents of the messy code, the content of the paper is not flush and so on. This situation is generally due to improper settings or problems with the driver used. It can be solved in the following ways:

1) Check whether the printer is set up correctly, and whether the correct paper, paper size and quality have been selected.

2) Redownload or upgrade the driver. Driver support and compatibility of newer versions can effectively improve the printer's printing efficiency and quality.

3) Clean the print head and print rollers. After a long time of use, there will be too much dust and impurities inside the printer, which will cause certain problems depending on the time.

3. Slower printing

Printers equipped with ink cartridges usually print faster, but if there is a slow printing, it may be due to the following reasons:

1) Ink cartridge depletion: a newly installed ink cartridge may suggest a very small amount of ink is loaded in it, and if a large number of prints are made for a period of time, the ink cartridge will run out of ink very quickly. If you find that the ink is decreasing extremely fast, you need to replace it in time.

2) Incorrect print mode: the printer may be set to singles mode, should be changed to doubles mode.

3) network speed is too slow: If the network bandwidth between the printer and the server is still insufficient, you need to replace the high-speed chip products to improve network speed.

In summary, the solution to the kitchen printer failure, including checking the power supply, ink cartridges, paper, re-downloading or upgrading the driver, cleaning the print head and print rollers, replacing the high-speed network chip and so on, we can make the kitchen printer to maintain a good state of operation, in order to improve the quality of food and beverage service and efficiency.