Making OpenBravoPOS work correctly with a STAR TSP143 Ethernet receipt printer

We installed an OpenBravo Point of Sale system for one of our clients last year.  Things have been working fairly well for them, except they had a problem with one of their printers going offline every so often.  Everything would be going along fine, then suddenly the printer would stop printing orders. The problem is, the kitchen printer isn’t visible from the bar, so nobody would notice for possibly five or ten minutes. The printer would come back online by itself after a while, or the wait staff would be forced to reboot the POS system. Not good.  Here’s how we fixed it. More →