topic How to increase kitchen printer chime/buzzer/alert? in Restaurant Operations

How to increase kitchen printer chime/buzzer/alert?

jyeong — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:07:47 GMT

We have TP300 printers in the kitchen, the internal buzzer sound is too faint/soft for the cooks to notice - and we are not interested in adding a KDS.

Are there alternate printers that can be used with TOAST POS that has louder chimes? Or any buzzer/add-ons we should look into?

Re: How to increase kitchen printer chime/buzzer/alert?

au79teahouse — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:39:33 GMT

There are external buzzer available in the market but I couldn't get them to work with Toast printer years ago. Maybe @Rob is able to reach out to hardware and see if that is possible.

Re: How to increase kitchen printer chime/buzzer/alert?

au79teahouse — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:58:59 GMT

Had a little free time to dig into it:

1. If you haven't tried changing the chime volume on your tp300, consider to do this first by accessing the printer settings.
https://support.toasttab.com/en/article/Configuring-the-Toast-TP200-Printer-Beep-Sounds?lang=en_US#TP300

2. If you already tried to adjust the volume and it is still not loud enough. The external buzzer I mentioned earlier is OT-BZ20, which works with some older versions of Epson printers. The article below lists out the compatible epson printers that Toast support.
https://support.toasttab.com/en/article/Toast-Compatible-Printers

Re: How to increase kitchen printer chime/buzzer/alert?

jyeong — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:02:38 GMT

Awesome, thanks! It looks like Epson TM-T88V supports external buzzer that connects to the DK (Drawer Kick) port for higher volume - will get a set to try. Thanks for the tips.

Note: I've changed the TP300 buzzer setting, including trying out all 6 modes.