Set up a Star CloudPRNT docket or label printer
Settings → Star Cloud Printer. Admin only.
The tab lists every Star printer on your store, and you can add as many as you need — a docket printer in the kitchen,
another at the bar, a label printer for cups and bags, a printer for your kiosk, a docket printer with a cash drawer for
the POS.
Supported models
The following Star Printers have CloudPRNT capability:
- Star mC print series: Star mC-Print2, Star mC-Print3, Star mC-Label3, Star MCP30.
- Star TSP654II and Star TSP100IV
The printer must be using an ethernet connection for CloudPRNT to work. Star Micronics does not support CloudPRNT over
USB. Plug a LAN cable into the printer's LAN port and into your router.
The LAN cable goes into the LAN port on the back of a Star MCP30
Pictures in this article are from Star Micronics' mC-Print3 / MCP30 manual. Other Star models have the same ports in a
different place.
For product labels, use a label printer such as the Star mC-Label3 with a liner-free (sticky) label roll.
Find the printer's IP address
Type the printer's IP address into a browser to reach the Star Intelligent Network Utility.
If you do not know it, print it:
1. Turn the printer off.
2. Hold down the Feed button, press the power button, and let go of the power button.
3. Let go of Feed when it starts printing. After about a minute a second test print shows the IP address in use.
Hold down Feed, then press and release the power button
Star's manual: Test print.
Configure the printer
In the Star Intelligent Network Utility:
1. Enable the CloudPRNT Service.
2. Set the Server URL to https://merchant.mypreorder.com.au/services/s/starprint.php
3. Set the polling time: 5 seconds for a printer at a POS counter, 10 seconds for a kiosk printer, and 30 seconds for
any other printer.
4. Username and password can be ignored.
5. Note the MAC Address shown on the same page.
Repeat for each printer. Every printer has its own MAC Address.
Add the printer to the portal
In Settings → Star Cloud Printer, select New Printer and fill in:
- MAC Address* — in the form XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX, exactly as the printer reports it. Each printer gets its own entry —
do not enter the same MAC Address twice.
- Printer Name* — must be unique within your store. To print all orders to a single printer, set to 1. For your
kiosk's printer, set to KIOSK. Otherwise pick a short name such as KITCHEN, BAR or LABELS — see Choose which items
print where below.
- Prints — Order docket prints the whole order on one docket. Product labels prints one label per item, for attaching
to cups, bags and containers.
- Media width — 80mm or 58mm. Match the roll loaded in the printer. Most receipt printers are 80mm.
- Printed by — leave it on CloudPRNT: the printer collects its jobs. With a POS at the counter, the POS can print
straight to the printer instead, which is faster: see Print straight from the POS to your printer.
- Status — Active. Inactive printers are ignored — they receive no orders.
Select Save Changes. The printer appears in the list with its name, MAC Address, what it prints — for example Product
labels (80mm) — and Active. To change it later, select Edit on its row.
Cash drawer
Plug the drawer's cable into the printer's drawer port: Cash Drawer / Buzzer on the mC-Print3 and MCP30, DK on some
other models. Its plug also fits the LAN port, so check which one you use.
The drawer cable goes into the Cash Drawer / Buzzer port on the back of a Star MCP30
Star's manual: Connecting a cash drawer.
If a cash drawer for the POS is plugged into an order docket printer, tell the portal on that printer's entry:
- Cash drawer: tick A cash drawer is connected to this printer.
- Opens for: Any POS device, or one POS device. It only appears when your store has more than one POS device.
It opens for cash sales and cash refunds on the POS, No sale, Paid in, Paid out and closing the till, and never for app,
kiosk, EFTPOS or Other orders. Label printers and KIOSK printers don't offer it.
The POS's till slips (X and Z reports) and tax invoices print on the drawer printer for that POS device, or else on the
printer named 1. See Connect a cash drawer to the POS.
Choose which items print where
Every menu item has a Printer(s) setting, and it starts as 1. That is why one printer named 1 prints every order without
any menu changes.
To send items somewhere else, open the item in Menu Builder, select Show advanced settings, and under Printing enter the
printer names in Printer(s), separated by commas — for example 1,LABELS. Upper or lower case does not matter. If you
cannot see Printer(s), contact us and we will switch it on for your store.
How each kind of printer uses it:
- A docket printer prints the whole order whenever at least one item on it names that printer. It does not split the
order into just its own items.
- A label printer prints labels only for the items that name it. The editor reminds you: "This printer only labels
products assigned to it."
- A KIOSK printer prints only orders placed on your kiosk. Online orders never go to it, and you do not need to change
any menu items.
Common set-ups
| You want | Printers | Menu items' Printer(s) | |---|---|---| | One docket printer | 1 — Order docket | Leave as 1 | |
A docket, plus labels for drinks | 1 — Order docket, and LABELS — Product labels | Drinks: 1,LABELS. Everything else:
leave as 1 | | Separate kitchen and bar dockets | KITCHEN and BAR — both Order docket | Food: KITCHEN. Drinks: BAR | |
Kiosk receipts | Add KIOSK — Order docket | No change |
Two traps:
- Keep 1 in the list when you add a label printer. An item set to just LABELS gets a label, but if every item on an
order is set that way, no docket prints.
- An item still set to 1 prints nowhere once no printer is named 1. If you rename your only printer to KITCHEN, update
every item.
With separate kitchen and bar dockets, an order with food and drinks prints in full at both.
What a label shows
One label per item, so three coffees print three labels. Each label shows your logo, the customer's name, the order
number, the item and its modifiers, and the item's price — or REWARD if it was paid for with a loyalty reward. Below
that come the pickup, delivery or dine-in table and time, paid or UNPAID, and the time the order was placed.
On an order of more than one item, each label also shows Item 2 of 5 and the order total. The numbering counts the whole
order, so if some items print elsewhere the numbers skip — labels 1, 2 and 5 mean the rest are coming from another
printer.
A customer's order note prints on its own label at the front of the run, so staff see it before making anything. On a
single-item order the note goes on that item's label instead.
The customer's phone number is never printed on a label. A menu item's Copies setting applies to dockets only — labels
always print one per item.
Replace or retire a printer
There is no delete. Set Status to Inactive and the printer stops receiving orders. An inactive printer does not hold on
to its name or MAC Address, so you can add a replacement that reuses them.
If Save Changes shows an error
- "Printer Name '…' is already used by another printer in this store. Give each printer a unique name." — Two active
printers cannot share a name. Rename one, or set the old one to Inactive.
- "MAC Address '…' is already registered to another printer in this store. One physical printer is one entry." — This
printer is already in your list. Edit that entry instead of adding a new one.
- "MAC Address '…' is already registered. Please check the address, or contact us for assistance." — The address
belongs to a printer on another store. Check it for a typo, then contact us if it is right.
Buying one
The screen links to the Star MCP30 from Officeworks, and to Star's own manuals for the mC-Print3 / MCP30 range. Contact
us for other models, or use your existing hardware supplier.
