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If you get nowhere with the above, I’m based in Coulsdon, south of London. I’m a mobile service so if you’re within 15 or so miles, I’ll come to you.

The 37 pin thing you have is a ‘rocket port’, which increases the number of serial ports on your computer. Most likely that these are your COM4,5,6,7 or whatever – you can check if it’s working in Device Manager/Ports where you can see the extra ports.

I’m sure I plugged the printer into one of those (now you mention it, I used a gender changer on this job – that must have been it) and configured the correct port to use via the Windows Printer Properties page. You can send the TM a test page and it should churn out something, but don’t worry if it’s jibberish as from memory mine was but printed fine within the POS software.

On re-reading your original post, I remembered you’re trying to get it working on your normal desktop :), so let’s confirm a couple of things…
- The end of the printer cable that goes in the PC is 9-pin? If so, it should go into a serial port on the back of the PC. If you don’t have one, transfer the rocket port to your PC and use that (you’ll need drivers from internet).
- Go to Windows Printer Properties and check what port the printer is using, it should be just COM1 or 2 if it’s a normal desktop PC, maybe higher if you’re using the rocket port.
- Try printing a test page from the Printer Properties General tab.
- If it’s getting this far and you’ve got a job in the print queue, I think it might just be a case of tinkering with the port settings in Device Manager/Ports/Port Settings. I can drop in where it’s installed and confirm the settings – let me know, cheers.

I do have a quick question
On the actual beetle M model 147B what port did you connect the tm-h6000ii too.

On the back of beetle are
3 serials ports
Com 1 cash drawer 9 pin male
Com 3 9 pin female
Com 4 9 pin female

1 LPT1 port 25 pin female

1 37 pin port. The system came with a cable for this port with four (9) pin female serial ports on one end and the 37 pin male on the other.

yet the printer cable is 32 pin rs232 to 9 pin female.
Do you have any ideas which one you used

You can confirm if the printer is working within Windows by sending a test page from the Printer Properties opening tab.

Good luck.

I purchased an old woolworths wincor nixdorf till off ebay.
I want to run the tm-h6000II that came with the system from my XP desktop computer. The cables that came with the package i purchased where unfortunantly incomplete. Im hoping that by using the beetle m as the power source for the printer (using the DC24V cable) and then connecting the RS-232 (25 pin) cable on the TM-H6000 to RS-232 (25 pin) on the back of my desktop allowing me to print receipts from my desktop.

I have the drivers installed for the TM-H6000II receipt printer loaded and the LPT1 port selected. Under ‘Printers and faxes’ in ‘control panel’ it says the TM-h6000II the printer is ‘ready’ and when i print it says printing. Yet nothing prints.
Do you have any idea what i might be doing wrong? I thought i might ask as you have experience with this particular printer.