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[nycphp-talk] printing orders to a printer

David Roth davidalanroth at gmail.com
Tue Sep 17 00:58:50 EDT 2013


Correction: The OP said it was coming in from the web, so there might not
even be a POS computer used at all.

I could go for a pizza right now! :-)

David Roth


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:56 AM, David Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com>wrote:

> Doesn't that assume the Point of Sale computer is connected directly to
> the printer via USB? I was picturing a shop where the printer is in the
> kitchen area away from the POS computer and the printer is connected to the
> network either by Wifi or Ethernet.
>
> David Roth
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Federico Ulfo <rainelemental at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> It's way simpler than that. Just create a printable version of your page
>> with the body as follow:
>> <body onload="window.print(); window.close();">
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:22 PM, David Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> You could look into using HP's ePrint. We have an HP printer that uses
>>> ePrint and you can email output to it and it's queued and printed:
>>>
>>> https://h30495.www3.hp.com/c/46339/US/en/
>>>
>>> So once the order has been completed from your software you could have
>>> it e-mailed using ePrint to the printer. This is assuming a few things, one
>>> that you either have an HP printer that supports ePrint or convince your
>>> client to get one. I also don't know if it supports anything fancy like
>>> PostScript with ePrint.
>>>
>>> David Roth
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:34 PM, selyah <selyah1 at 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 lline from the website to be printed
>>>> on a printer (or fax machine) in the shop 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
>>>>
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