Has anyone out in the user community been faced with the task of trying to
get a JSP intranet product to also do industrial bulk printing of rebate
checks?
I have been asked if the product I am currently developing can also handle
bulk printing of rebate check information. Basically, the data that is
inputted by the user's into the intranet site would eventually be used to
determine what type of rebate check a customer would receive. My client
would like to use the same JSP intranet product we are developing for order
management and fulfillment, to do rebate check printing on the manufacturing
floor. The requirements are to querying the database regarding the number
of rebate checks via a "selection list" of different denominations,
formatting that query data onto a check form (there are several different
rebate check forms), displaying the check form with data in the browser, and
then having the user send that data to the printer for printing. Part of
the requirements also include handling printing errors, such as paper jams,
empty ink cartridge, etc..., in the code "gracefully", and allowing the
operating to restart the print job at the point the error occurred.
All rebate checks would be printed on an industrial printer which can handle
20,000 - 30,000 checks per day. This industrial printer does come with a
Windows NT driver, some memory for a printer buffer, and uses PCL5 and
extended PCL5 (PCL5e).
1. Has anyone out there ever done this using Java/JSP?
2. If so, were you able to display bar code data (we have a font package
for printing bar codes), and fonts that have been rotated 90 degrees, in a
browser window? I've found some literature that says that rotated characters
and unusual character, such as the bar codes, cannot be displayed in either
Netscape or IE, but I don't know if this is true. Does anyone know?
3. Are there any Java/JSP third party tools out there that I could use that
could accomplish this task, including responding to error codes generated by
the printer.
4. Could this be accomplished better by using a Java applet inside the
browser, instead of a JSP page?
Any advice, insight, or third party tool web sites would be greatly
appreciated.
Celeste
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