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.
From my iPhone On Sep 17, 2013, at 7:24 AM, selyah <sely...@yahoo.com> wrote: > thanks for your input and suggestions....... > > From: Matthew Kaufman <mkfmn...@gmail.com> > To: NYPHP Talk <talk@lists.nyphp.org> > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 12:45 AM > Subject: Re: [nyphp-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 <sely...@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 >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation
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