← Knowledge Base

Printers - Set Up Printers to Create Kitchen Receipts

This article will guide you through how to assign tag(s) to a specific printer.

Hardware & Printers FAQ

These guides cover talech Register and related POS equipment. Paytura is your merchant services partner; talech provides the register software and device support referenced in these articles.

This article will guide you through how to assign tag(s) to a specific printer.  

In some instances, you may want to choose which items are sent to which printer. Kitchen printers can be assigned specific product Tags and Categories. For example, you may create a tag for cocktails and have items assigned to that tag printed to your bar’s kitchen printer.  

Register Type
  • iPad
  • Poynt
  • Moby
Region
  • USA
  • CA
  • EU
Tier
  • Standard
  • Premium
Business type
  • Restaurant

    In this article


    Create a Tag for items

    1. From the Dashboard, navigate to Back Office > Menu > Tags (found along the top). 
    2. Select + to create a tag, name your tag and select Save

           Create a tag in register  


    back to top
     

    Assigning Tags to an item

    1. From the Back Office, navigate to Menu > select the item you want to add a tag to > select Tags towards the bottom.  

         Edit menu of individual product  

    1. Select the desired tag. A check mark will appear to show the tag has been applied. Select Back.  

           Tags in edit menu of individual product  

    1. Select Save.  

           Edit menu of individual product  

      

    Note: For more info on Categories or product Tags, please refer to Category and Product Tags before setting up your kitchen printer. 


    back to top

     

    Set up a kitchen printer

    When orders are sent to the kitchen from the Register app, the items in that order will go to printers based on their Tag(s) or Category. 

    1. From the Dashboard, select Back Office > Settings > Printers.
    2. Select your desired kitchen printer. 
    3. Select either Categories or Tags

         Smart device showing edit menu of printer settings  

    1. Select each Category and/or Tag that you would like this printer to print kitchen receipts for. A check mark will appear on the right to show it's selected. 

         Smart device showing the tags in edit menu of printer settings.  

    1. Select Back then Save


    back to top

     

    Send an order to the kitchen printer

    1. Open talech Register and create a new order. 
    2. Select Send to dispatch an order to the kitchen printer.  

         Open order screen on register  


    back to top

     

     
     

    Need more help?

    • talech training & device support (24/7): 1-888-995-1998
    • Paytura merchant support (24/5): 1-855-4-PAYTURA or contact Paytura