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TECH TIP - POS
OPENING CASH DRAWER DIRECTLY FROM WITH A SERIAL PORT
  for the Reporting to the MAX Accounting Software

 
MMF Cash Drawers, Inc. produces severa different types of cash drawer interfaces for their products.

Most of our customers get the ones that are operated through the Receipt Printer.  When the drawer is attached this way, the printer actually controls the opening of the drawer.  From time to time, we get calls from customers trying to get an MMF drawers working when the drawer is directly connected to a serial port.
 
To open most of these drawers, ANY two characters passed into the serial port will work.  Some of the MMF units have a switch-selectable character to open the drawer... if the DIP switches on this type of drawer have not been adjusted, the default open character is a capital A.  Cash drawers of the switchable type from MMF have an "ND" at the end of the model number.
 
To open 75% of all direct connected MMF cash drawers (especially the ECD232 series), try these codes:
 
1-  Use a code of  "1   65"
2-  Use a code of  "2   65   65"
 
This should open all MMF drawers requiring any one or two characters, and also any switchable drawers that have not been modified

 

 
 
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