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rongta-printer still named the cashino driver id (→ escpos + migration 0023 note); tariff-time-tiers listed the composer price preview as deferred (→ delivered by the lab fee breakdown); tariff.md lab section gained the breakdown + composer increment-guard paragraph; i18n.md now records the "25 Qer 14:30" date standard + never-toLocaleString-for- dates rule; fleet-deployment-komodo gained the park-lab stack + tier table (the park-lab addition had also slipped the log — both fixed). Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xcm6ikLgGoCxxHrxtjkk5V
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type: entity
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tags: [parking, hardware, printer, device]
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sources: []
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updated: 2026-06-19
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---
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# Rongta 80mm thermal printer
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The chosen ticket/receipt printer: a **Rongta RP-series 80mm network thermal printer** (and the
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many ESC/POS-compatible OEM clones that share its firmware). Driver `rongta` in
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`packages/devices` implements [[device-adapter-pattern|PrinterDevice]].
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## Transport & protocol
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- **ESC/POS over a raw TCP socket on port 9100** (the JetDirect/RAW convention). The driver
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opens the socket, writes the ESC/POS byte stream, and **closes GRACEFULLY**.
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> **Graceful close — fixed 2026-06-19.** `sendRaw()` previously did `write(payload)` then
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> `destroy()` on the write callback. But a `Socket.write()` callback fires when bytes reach the
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> *local kernel buffer*, NOT when the peer has read them — so `destroy()` could send a TCP **RST**
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> that truncates the job mid-stream, leaving the printer a desynced ESC/POS stream (raster garbage).
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> Now it `end(payload)` (write + FIN, a clean half-close) and resolves on the socket's `close`
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> event — which only fires after the printer has drained the bytes. A timeout *after* the write
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> completed is treated as success (some printers never send their own FIN), so a delivered job is
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> never spuriously failed. A latent bug found while diagnosing the KP-300H garbage; it was NOT the
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> cause of that (see overflow gotcha below) but is a real truncation risk on its own.
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- **No authentication** on the print socket — anyone who can reach port 9100 can print. Like
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every other field device it must sit on the **isolated device VLAN** ([[network-isolation]]).
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There is no real HTTP/control boundary on the device (same posture as [[dingtian-relay]]).
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- **Health check** is a TCP connect probe to 9100. The print socket exposes no status protocol
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we rely on; the print itself is the real reachability test (failover attempts the print).
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- **Live status** comes from the device's own web page `http://<host>/prn_stat.htm` (port 80),
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which decodes Cover Open / Cutter Error / Paper End / Paper Near End / Off-Line into Yes/No.
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We scrape that rather than hand-decode `DLE EOT` — this clone's DLE EOT reply bytes do **not**
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match the canonical ESC/POS bit layout (verified on hardware), so trusting the device's own
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decode avoids a false-healthy. Implemented as `readStatus()`; see [[printer-status-monitoring]].
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- **USB transport (added 2026-06-24).** The same driver can instead drive a printer over a local
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USB `usblp` char device (`/dev/usb/lp0`) — `config.transport` (`tcp-ip` | `usb`) picks the wire
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behind one render layer (the ESC/POS bytes are identical). The status web page is a **network**
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feature, so a **USB Rongta degrades to reachability-only** monitoring (open-the-node probe, no
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paper/cover verdict — the same honesty floor as the Cashino). Driving USB depends on the appliance
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image (`usblp` bound + a udev write-access rule) — a provisioning step, open-questions #14. Full
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rationale in [[printer-usb-transport]].
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## Deployment (this site)
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- First printer verified reachable at **10.0.10.6:9100** from the host (TCP connect OK,
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2026-06-14).
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- **Two printers configured (as of 2026-06-18)**, by role — see [[printer-roles-failover]]:
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- **entry-dispenser** — `10.0.10.9`, outside at the lane; the driver takes the entry
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ticket. This unit is a **Cashino**, not a Rongta: it prints the same ESC/POS stream but
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serves no `/prn_stat.htm` status page, so it runs on the generic ESC/POS driver
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(id `escpos` — renamed from `cashino` 2026-07-06, migration 0023; reachability PING
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only, no paper/cover status) — see [[printer-status-monitoring]], [[printer-usb-transport]].
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- **booth-receipt** — `10.0.10.10`, inside the booth; receipts, AND the backup that prints
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the entry ticket if the outside dispenser is offline. This unit is a **Rongta** (`rongta`
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driver, full status-page monitoring).
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## Ticket rendering
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`printTicket(TicketData)` builds ESC/POS: `ESC @` init, centered/bold/double-size header,
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lane, ticket id, issued-at, feed + partial cut (`GS V B`). CP437/ASCII subset. The entry ticket
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encodes the id as a **1D Code128** barcode (`GS k`).
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**`printSubscriptionCard(SubscriptionCardData)`** (added 2026-06-18) renders a **2D QR** of the
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[[subscription]] code via ESC/POS **`GS ( k`** (model 2, EC level M) — firmware-rendered, no bitmap
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dependency — plus the code as text + holder/validity. Used for the auto-printed + reprintable
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subscription card. (Verified: the `GS ( k` store/print byte sequences + the embedded code appear on
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the wire against a TCP capture.)
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**`printReceipt(ReceiptData)`** (added 2026-06-18) — the payment receipt / exit voucher
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([[booth-exit-flow]]). Same ESC/POS preamble; figures + amount, optional Code128 + grace.
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### CP852 codepage — two gotchas found on a real misprint (2026-06-18)
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The driver selects **CP852** (Latin-2) via `ESC t 18` and maps the Albanian letters to their CP852
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bytes. A printed voucher surfaced two encoding bugs, both now fixed in `printer-escpos.ts`:
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- **Uppercase `Ë` was mapped to `0xEB` — wrong.** In CP852 `0xEB` is `ű`; the correct byte for
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`Ë` (U+00CB) is **`0xD3`**. The title `BILETË DALJE` / `FATURË PAGESE` printed garbled until fixed.
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(Lowercase `ë` = `0x89` was always correct.) Anyone extending the CP852 map must verify bytes
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against the actual Unicode.org `CP852.TXT`, not guess.
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- **`Intl.NumberFormat` injects a NO-BREAK SPACE.** Formatting `ALL` money yields `"1000 Lekë"`
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(separator = U+00A0, sometimes U+202F narrow NBSP) — neither is in CP852, so it printed as `1000?Lekë`.
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`line()` now normalises U+00A0/U+202F → a plain space before encoding. Any Intl-formatted value on a
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ticket is affected, not just money.
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### KP-300H barcode overflow — only the Cashino garbled (2026-06-19)
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The Cashino entry dispenser printed **raster garbage** on entry tickets while the booth Rongta printed
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the *same* byte stream cleanly. Root cause was **barcode line-overflow, not corruption**: a 13-digit
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Code128 at module width 3 (~534 dots) overran the KP-300H's **72mm = 512-dot** line; the Rongta's
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80mm (576) had room. Plain-text-only prints were clean, isolating it to the `GS k` barcode. **Fix:
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shorten the ticket id 13→11 digits** (~468 dots — fits 72mm) — see [[ticket-encoding]] for the
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geometry. Module width must stay 3: a test at width 2 scanned but returned *truncated* values.
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**General rule:** size firmware barcodes/QRs to the **narrowest** deployed printer's usable dot width.
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### Human dates on printed slips — Albanian (2026-06-19)
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`stamp()` now formats timestamps as **`19 Qershor 2026 10:48:25`** (Albanian month, 24h with seconds)
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instead of `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM`. Month names are a hardcoded `SQ_MONTHS` table (the appliance browser's
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ICU lacks Albanian locale data — see [[i18n]]). `stamp` is exported as **`formatStampSq`** so the
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shift [[shift|Z-report]] shares the one Albanian date format. Applies to ticket issue time, receipt
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entry/paid rows, and subscription validity dates (date-only). Consistent with the
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"[[i18n|printed paper is always Albanian]]" rule.
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## Status
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Driver written and compiles; entry-ticket layout is a first pass; live status monitoring is
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implemented and verified ([[printer-status-monitoring]]). The receipt/exit layout and the
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cash-drawer kick (ESC/POS `ESC p`) are **not yet implemented** — they arrive with the
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exit/payment flow. Replaces the generic "Epson TM / Citizen" booth-printer line in [[bom]].
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