Hey Charles. On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 09:06:58AM -0800, Charles Stevenson wrote: .. > Join the club... I am also new and unemployed. ;) I once did some > contract work for a coffee shop in colorado that was running some cheesy > VB app called Coffee Shop Manager or something like that. The idea was
:) I am familiar with Coffee Shop Manager. It's expensive, cheesy, feature bloated, written in VB and closed source. nasty stuff. heh. but it offers enough "off-the-self" functionality that we spent some time evaluating it, and I'm copying some of its interface design. (maybe I should be ashamed of myself.) > to keep a synchronized (sort of) database between stores so that > customers could purchase drinks and such on a little magnetic stripe > card. yes, the pre-paid/"affinity" cards. We're planning on doing that. I'm playing with the idea of letting our customer use any kind of card that has a magnetic stripe as their "ID" card so that they can cut down on the number of membership cards they have to carry around. or... I guess I could just do the telephone number thing. > I also worked for Shuffle Master on some embedded type work with > various touch screen drivers. Before Shuffle Master bought the company > they had been looking into POS market. I've got driver experience with > Seiko and Ithaca printers like you'd find in a slot machine and some > cash registers. Could be fun... Sounds like you have some good experience. I'm looking into buying touch screens these days. maybe I'll ask you for advice. I bought a Star TSP600 receipt printer a little while ago. They provide a CUPS driver (a postscript raster graphics CUPS plugin... I think) and generally the printer works great. I'm making nice looking receipts. I don't understand why it's as slow as it is though. I generate my postscript with the PostScript::Simple perl module and send it to the printer with lpr. This part of the process seems to work very quickly. A 5+ second (haven't timed it) delay follows; then the printer starts up and prints the receipt in under a second. The delay between lpr returning and actual start of the print job may be unacceptably long. it seems like it shouldn't take that long to render the postscript, but I don't know what else it could be. - Ben _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
