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Kitchen Ticket Examples

This document will show you examples of kitchen and bar tickets using different fonts, spacing, and headers

Impact Printer Fonts

  • Here is an example of each of the 6 different font printed on an impact printer that is most often used in the kitchen
  • The chart will tell you how many characters will fit on 1 line before it wraps to a second line
    • Note: only modifiers and notes will wrap. The parent item will cut off letters
Font Size Characters Before Wrapping
X-Small (New) 38
Small 31
Normal (Default) 18
Tall (formerly "Big") 31
Large (formerly "Huge") 18
X-Large (New) 14

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Thermal Printer Fonts

  • Here is an example of each of the 6 different font printed on a thermal printer that is most often used at the bar and for customer receipts
  • The chart will tell you how many characters will fit on 1 line before they are cut off
Font Size Characters Before Cutting Off
X-Small (New) 54
Small 40
Normal (Default) 26
Tall (formerly "Big") 40
Large (formerly "Huge") 26
X-Large (New) 19

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Spacing Between Items

  • The examples below all use the NORMAL font
  • They all have 0 spacing between guests
  • The space in between ranges from 0-10

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Spacing Between Groupings

  • The examples below all use the NORMAL font
  • They all have 2 spacing between items
  • The space in between ranges from 0-10

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Custom Grouping Header examples

  • Here are a couple different examples of headers you can use in between groups
  • The Custom grouping text only works with "Guest" or "Course" grouping strategy 
  • The top of the receipt will show you what I typed into the custom grouping text box
    • If you type nothing into the text box it will use the (Default) headers "Guest 1" or "Course 1"

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