10Gpbs networking for home is coming

As cheaper hardware becomes available, you can begin to change your equipment to add 10Gbps networking for home.

One place I see using most is a NAS (Network attached storage), where you can host all your photos or videos.  Getting large files to your PC from a NAS can become slow on 1 Gbps network.  So the first step to implement a 10Gbps network, is probably just to do networking from your workstation or main PC to a high-speed NAS using 10Gpbs.

Some of the  considerations includes using CAT 7a or CAT8 cabling... and getting a 10Gbps switch/router and PCIe card for your PC (unless it is a new motherboard with built-in 10 Gbps port)


https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in


This switch looks good

Xprinter thermal receipt printer N160II 80mm

I am looking at this China made receipt printer, that is suitable for POS(Point of Sale) system use.

I have found their download location here : http://www.xprinter.net/index.php/Product/product_detail/id/97/cid2/21

80系列驱动

80mm芯烨打印机所用驱动

The above is the driver for the 80mm series I assume

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I also cannot find any Youtube video that talks about this printer (at least not in English)...

So I decided to write this post... and I'll expand more details as I discover them.

I found out that Windows 7, and the Gicater POS software doesn't play well with this printer, at least if the Receipt being printed is very long, and each line item is overly descriptive.  The two modes available (driver and compatibility mode) all have it's own challenges :
1. driver mode - prints everything till the end of the receipt, but each line item over runs and overprints on the price column

2. compatibility mode - the linefeed are controlled much better than (1), but if the receipt is too long, it doesnt print it all, and just cut the receipt. So a partial receipt is printed only.

I am suspecting maybe I need to install the driver.  So thats the next step.

Specs here:

打印方式Printing method	直接行式热敏 (direct thermal)
打印宽度 (print width)	72mm 纸宽
点密度 (resolution)	576点/行或512点/行
打印速度 (print speed)	160毫米/秒
接口类型 (connection type)	USB、网口、USB+蓝牙、9P串口+USB、25P并口 (USB, Ethernet port, Bluetooth)
打印纸 (Paper)	79.5±0.5毫米×φ80毫米 (80mm width)
行间距	3.75毫米（可用命令调整行间距）
列数	80mm 纸 : 80mm 纸:Font A - 42列或48列/Font B - 56列或64列 / 简、繁体 - 21列或24列
字符大小	ANK字符，Font A：1.5×3.0mm（12×24点） Font B：1.1×2.1mm（9×17点） 简/繁体：3.0×3.0mm（24×24点）
条码字符	扩展字符表	PC347（Standard Europe）、Katakana、 PC850（Multilingual）、PC860（Portuguese）、 PC863（Canadian-French）、PC865（Nordic）、 West Europe、Greek、Hebrew、East Europe、Iran、WPC1252、PC866（Cyrillic#2）、PC852（Latin2）、PC858、IranII、Latvian、Arabic、PT151（1251）
	条码类型	UPC-A/UPC-E/JAN13（EAN13）/JAN8（EAN8）/ CODE39/ITF/CODABAR/CODE93/CODE128
缓冲	输入缓冲	64k bytes
	NV Flash	256k bytes
电源 (power)	电源适配器 Input Power	输入：AC 110V/220V, 50～60Hz
	电源  Output power	输出：DC 24V/2.5A
	钱箱输出 Cash register Power	DC 24V/1A
物理特性	重量	1.03千克
	外观尺寸	190×140×131毫米 (深×宽×高)
环境要求	工作环境	温度: 0～45℃, 湿度: 10～80%
	存储环境	温度: -10～60℃, 湿度: 10～90%（不结露）
寿命	切刀寿命	100万次
	打印头寿命	100公里

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