Please consider re-writing this blurb using indentation and paragraphs. --Bill Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Anthony Dzikiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] Universe/wIntegrate/Thin Client Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:49:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-Type: text/plain
Hello Everyone, I am in the midst of thinking up a solution for upgrading dumb terminal/dot matrix printers at point of sale retail. We would like to get some new functionality at these cashiers stations including, printing invoice receipts on a laser printer, possibly doing credit card auth via web, and capturing signatures. Primarily doing the laser printing and then everything else to follow. A while back I was trying to see if I could take the invoice, which is created as a pdf file, transform it to postscript and echo it thru the parallel 'aux' port on the dumb terminal. Well this is just not feasible. It takes minutes to get that puppy thru to the printer (the ps file ends up being very large) and you end up needing a special postscript type printer. One other thing I did not want to do is to create a bunch of spooled printers and have the application spool the invoice. We are running Linux AS 3. The spooler sometimes gets sluggish. Ive had experience where one printer getting 'hung' can hang the whole spooler (not just in Linux, but on our old DG and on the older Prime). So I want the printing operation to continue to be independent and not interfere with anything else. I started looking into wIntegrate and Windows thin clients as a possible solution. I figured that the host application could probably tell wIntegrate to print the document on the local thin client to solve that problem (invoice being a pdf in a type1 samba share). I am thinking that we can link things like credit card auth and signature capture with wIntegrate as well. I am looking for anyone who is doing something similar to let me know if I am on the right track. I have absolutely no experience with wIntegrate (I have downloaded the trail version) or windows thin clients. Does this sound like a messy set up ? Would this be robust enough to place at point of sale where the users are basically kids and are by no means technical ? Any comments or insight be anyone who has been down this road would be appreciated ? Thanks Anthony Dzikiewicz Alperts Furniture ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of Brutzman, Bill.vcf] ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
