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 ?
We use thin clients and also do slave printing, but not in conjunction with each other. Combining the two shouldn't be a problem though. We do slave printing for remote users through Accuterm, and it's pretty simple to set up. You just send an escape sequence to the screen, send all your print data, then send another escape sequence to terminate the print job. The output goes to whatever Accuterm's default printer is.
If you're going to do this with thin clients, you're going to need, at the very least, a beefy Windows 2003 server with terminal services. You may want to add Citrix for better speed and better remote printer support. Your users will log into the server to access their windows desktop and have a COM or LPT port mapped to their local thin client's printer.
We use the following NeoWare linux thin client, which I highly recommend:
http://www.neoware.com/products/eon/eon_e100.html
You'll want to get the ghostscript and thinprint snap-ins (free). Ghostscript will let you use a non-postscript printer to print postscript content.
This should be a fairly robust and easily managed environment. If you're using Citrix on the terminal server, support is also enhanced by the ability to shadow a user's session and see and manipulate their desktop.
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