The Ithaca 9000 printer has an RJ11 cash drawer port for connecting a cash drawer. This port is hard wired for an EPSON configuration. When purchasing a cash drawer to use with this printer, an Epson cash drawer cable must be ordered. Cash drawer cables are not available from TransAct. Once you have the correct cable, you will still need to send the correct cash drawer command code to the printer to open the drawer. The cash drawer code depends on the Emulation Mode the printer is in. This can be determined by printing a configuration listing. See Manual Configuration for how to print out this listing. The follow are the codes for the common Emulation Modes:
Ithaca PCOS
Cash Drawer 1 | ASCII : [ESC] x 1 | DECIMAL: 27 120 1 | HEX: 1B 78 01
Cash Drawer 2 | ASCII : [ESC] x 2 | DECIMAL: 27 120 2 | HEX: 1B 78 02
EPSON
Cash Drawer 1 | ASCII : [ESC] p 0 | DECIMAL: 27 112 0 | HEX: 1B 70 00
Cash Drawer 2 | ASCII : [ESC] p 1 | DECIMAL: 27 112 1 | HEX: 1B 70 01
Star
Cash Drawer 1 | ASCII : [BEL] | DECIMAL: 7 | HEX: 07
Cash Drawer 2 | ASCII : [SUB] | DECIMAL: 26 | HEX: 1A
Microline
Cash Drawer 1 | ASCII : [BEL] | DECIMAL: 7 | HEX: 07
Cash Drawer 2 | ASCII : [BS] | DECIMAL: 8 | HEX: 08