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[selyah]

thanks for your input and suggestions.......


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 From: Matthew Kaufman <mkfmncom at gmail.com>
To: NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] printing orders to a printer
 


selyah,

I was in the middle of writing a reply and got distracted:   …….In my experience…….

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>Scenerio 1:  You have a NORMAL INKJET/LASER PRINTER?  Use CUPS/cupsd.  It is easy to configure and setup a simple method to send a document to a http or print spool over a network.  Just tunnel your document data that needs to be send to the printer via some type of tunnel @ port 631, and edit your cupsd.conf to let the authorized user that you create (probably not admin or root) to send that to the printer  spool.
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>Result: your receipt prints out.
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>also there should be docs at http://localhost:631/help, b) in /usr/share/doc/cups or within c) /etc/cups or on the project website.
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>Scenerio 2:  Your program/software is using a THERMAL PRINTER?  Access the device spec manual and figure out how to send the reciept data to the device and do so….
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>(may include sdk, etc… or commonly (i'd venture to guess 90% of the time; over serial connection).
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On Sep 16, 2013, at 9:32 PM, selyah <selyah1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi everyone:
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>I am redesigning a website for a pizza shop and one of the criteria is to have the orders that are placed on the to be printed on a printer (or fax machine) when an order is placed.
>I understand that a printing protocol can be used, but wanted to know if there are any other ideas of ways of setting this up.
>I have never done something like this before and not sure how to approach it.
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