{"id":3402,"date":"2018-08-05T11:11:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T11:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avitech.com.au\/?page_id=3402"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:10:12","slug":"epson-tm-u210d-pos-printer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/avitech.com.au\/?page_id=3402","title":{"rendered":"EPSON TM-U210D POS Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I acquired this printer on 5 August 2018.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a 9-pin dot-matrix printer that prints on 76mm plain paper.<\/p>\n<p>This is an old printer. According to the publication dates of the manuals, it dates from around 1999.<\/p>\n<p>It came with a &#8220;forked&#8221; RS232 cable that splits out to DB9F and DB25F connectors.  I have successfully used this printer via both the 9-pin and 25-pin connector.<\/p>\n<p>Mine is currently set to 9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity, XON\/XOFF handshaking and 40 column mode.<\/p>\n<h4>Manuals<\/h4>\n<p>I located the following manuals for this printer:<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avitech.com.au\/mm-files\/epson-tm-u210d-printer\/TM-U210_user_multi.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TM-U210 Series User&#8217;s Manual<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avitech.com.au\/mm-files\/epson-tm-u210d-printer\/p7z-TM-U210_Specification.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TM-U210 Series Specification<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avitech.com.au\/mm-files\/epson-tm-u210d-printer\/Codes_ascii_epson.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EPSON Paper Roll Printers ESC\/POS Application Programming Guide Version 10.01<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Ribbons<\/h4>\n<p>Ribbons are available in single colour (black or purple) or two colour (black and red).<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;D&#8221; model (which I have) can take the red\/black 2-colour ribbon.  The ribbon part number is ERC-38, with a suffix of (P) for Purple, (B) for black, or (B\/R) for black\/red.  Mine currently has a purple ribbon in it.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/Epson-Ribbon-TMU230-Printers-case\/dp\/B015TMAG5M\" target=\"_blank\">6-pack of black\/red ribbons<\/a> on Amazon for AU$28.51 (April 2026).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I acquired this printer on 5 August 2018. It&#8217;s a 9-pin dot-matrix printer that prints on 76mm plain paper. This is an old printer. According to the publication dates of the manuals, it dates from around 1999. It came with a &#8220;forked&#8221; RS232 cable that splits out to DB9F and DB25F connectors. 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