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hey you don't need to over engineer your problem, it's a website for a pizzeria, seriously all you need is window.print() and a page that refresh itself.

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On Sep 17, 2013, at 7:24 AM, selyah <selyah1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> thanks for your input and suggestions.......
> 
> 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…….
> 
> 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.
> 
> Result: your receipt prints out.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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….
> 
> 	(may include sdk, etc… or commonly (i'd venture to guess 90% of the time; over serial connection).
> 
> 
> On Sep 16, 2013, at 9:32 PM, selyah <selyah1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone:
>> 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.
>> thanks in advance
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