Hello, this is Ben from POSGuys.
In this video I'm going to be showing you how to install the Epson TM-T88VI
through your network.
What you'll want to first do first is plug in the 88VI to your network via an Ethernet cable.
This unit does come with a built in Ethernet port as well as USB port.
So you'll just want to make sure you connect there and turn it on.
After a short while, the printer will acquire its own IP address and then spit out just
a little bit of a slip there that should say the IP address, subnet pass, Gateway, and
whether or not the GHCP is enabled there.
And after you have that done there, you'll want to make sure you find out what your network
is by running IP config.
So what you'll want to do first is run the command prompt, and type in IP config here.
And you'll want to pay attention to the Default Gateway.
Here we have it as 10.1.1.1, which means the address you want to have the printer have
should be the first three sets of numbers here.
So for instance, we'll assign one, just to make sure it's not on the network already,
10.1.1.255.
And it's trying to ping it, and it looks like we don't have anything on the network with
that IP address.
So we'll go ahead and assign that IP address to this printer, and to do that you'll use
a program called EpsonNet Config, and this is the Ethernet utility, or this utility that
will allow you to set the new IP address for the printer.
I've already run installation for this, you just need to run the set up file here.
If you have a, if the file is a zipped file, you'll want to make sure you right click and
extract it first, and after it's been installed, you can look up the EpsonNet.
And I find on Windows 10 and 8 that it's easiest just to type in something to the search bar
and have it pop up.
So go to EpsonNet Config, it'll load up here, and yes you want to create an exception to
the firewall so it can find it, and sometimes it'll take longer depending on the network,
but it looks like it found it right away here.
So this is the 88VI and its current IP address, so what we're going to want to do is we're
going to want to select it and hit configuration.
It's going to open up the options for the printer here.
Alright, we're going to want to go down to network interface, and under basic information
here, oh sorry Network, and then here we go TCP-IP here, and we're actually going to want to
set the method for specifying the IP address as manual, so it won't automatically acquire
its own IP address any more.
We're going to change it to the IP address we tested to make sure it wasn't on the network.
We're going to hit transmit.
What this is going to do is it's going to send a command to the printer to change its
IP address to that.
So it looks like this was successful, and we'll want to hit refresh, and it should find
the printer here, and there it is.
So when you do this, it now has the IP address, you'll want go to, in the previous video I
installed the advanced printer driver version 5.07 for the 88VI, so we'll just want to look
for the Epson and there's the Epson advanced printer driver 5, register change or delete
TM printer, we're going to want to select that, and we'll want to select under port
type Ethernet, and this is where you'll type in the address here, 255.
We'll hit save settings, it'll create the printer queue there, and we'll click yes.
It's going to send the print job to that IP address, and it just printed out on the printer
here, it has the Windows test page saying you've correctly installed the printer there,
congratulations.
And that's all you would need to do there.
All that's left is to log into your software, if there's any hardware set up, go ahead and
select the printer and it should print.
Thank you for watching.