making printer louder

[denacannon]

Our bar printer makes no noise when tickets come out.  Thus, the bartenders rarely hear it and and the servers are having to wait for drinks.    However, the kitchen printer is significantly louder (making that "ticking" noise kinda like an old adding machine).  Is there a way to change the setting on the bar printer to make it louder?  

[josh212 · Accepted solution]

So your bar printer is a thermal printer therefore its not going to be loud. 

Due to the heat in the kitchen your kithen printer uses a ribbon and actual ink to print (dot-matrix) printer. If you want that style of printer for your bar you can order another printer for the bar and use it specificially for service tickets. Youu can also take any tablet for put a KDS at your bar for drinks and have it make a noise for each order and print upon fulfillment. (unoficcially you can literally take any android tablet and use it for this, like even an old grubhub tablet etc..)

[denacannon]

Thank you!  This is exactly what the issue is.  The responses about making it beep or chime certainly would’ve solved the problem of bartenders not hearing it, but that solution wasn’t exactly what I was looking for.  I’ve worked in restaurants where the printers made a chime or beep but you come to dread that noise and hear it in your sleep.  The old dot matrix feed is what is needed.  Thanks again!

[Logger]

You will come to dread the dot matrix printer sound even more!

[josh212]

Yes you may but there is nothing like hearing the order from the characters that’s it prints. And you know what the order as it prints lol