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mmorgan |
Good Morning! |
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jwoodard |
Good afternoon all |
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mmorgan |
jwoodard: Good afternoon! |
| 13:19 |
jwoodard |
i had a long winded question but finally found the corresponding bug on launchpad |
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jwoodard |
one less issue on my plate! |
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* Dyrcona |
ponders at some git "strangeness." |
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Dyrcona |
And, it isn't so strange, but I wanted git remote prune ... and not git prune ... |
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Bmagic |
jwoodard++ |
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Ryan_LGPL |
Hi! I have a question about automatic opening cash drawers, and Evergreen! |
| 13:31 |
Ryan_LGPL |
We just got a new cash drawer at my library, because the old one's latch was broken, and wouldn't stay closed anymore, without extreme effort. |
| 13:32 |
Ryan_LGPL |
The replacement drawer does not (Though it didn't state this in the advertisement) have a manual open button...it only opens with the key. It's an EOM-POS cash drawer. It does plug into our printer, and DOES respond to the test button in the printer settings for testing whether our printer can trigger the latch. |
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Ryan_LGPL |
How can I get Evergreen to send the signal to the printer to trigger the cash drawer? Also, is it possible to get it to only do so when printing receipts for actual financial transactions, and NOT when printing due date slips? |
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jeff |
A few options here. |
| 13:34 |
jeff |
Depending on the printer and the print driver, you should be able to configure it so that it does a "drawer kick" after every print job. |
| 13:34 |
Ryan_LGPL |
Printer is a TSP100u. I can't find any settings in it's settings for the printer/cashdrawer interaction, aside from the test button that confirms that it CAN send the code to open the drawer |
| 13:36 |
jeff |
If you'd like to only "kick" the drawer open for certain kinds of receipts, you might be able to do this by creating a second windows printer object for the same device, and configuring only that printer to send the drawer kick at the end of jobs, and then using Evergreen printer contexts to send certain receipt templates to that printer that kicks. |
| 13:37 |
jeff |
Some printers support a "control font" and certain characters printed with that control font do certain things. Older (much older) printers only supported escape codes, which required certain hex values to make their way from the app to the printer without being transformed along the way. That's not likely to work these days. |
| 13:37 |
jeff |
But if the printer supports a control font you might be able to configure a "drawer kick" command in a receipt template that way. |
| 13:39 |
Dyrcona |
Q: Is it possible to just send the kick code to the cash drawer directly? I ask because I don't know these things, but feel like I should. |
| 13:39 |
Ryan_LGPL |
I noticed that the cash drawer manual said something about using "epson pos" system for interfacing with the printer for that opening function? |
| 13:40 |
Ryan_LGPL |
I found this website: http://www.beaglehardware.com/howtoprogramcashdrawer.html |
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jeff |
In Windows, check under Device Settings in the printer properties dialog. Look for the Installable Options heading, then settings like Peripheral Unit Type (Cash Drawer) and "Peripheral Unit 1" / "Peripheral Unit 2" with options like "Document Top" and "Document Bottom" |
| 13:41 |
jeff |
You're unlikely to be using the Epson POS SDK to print to this printer from Evergreen. |
| 13:41 |
Ryan_LGPL |
that talks about "programming" the device by entering code into the receipt template? |
| 13:41 |
Ryan_LGPL |
AFK momentarily...be right back to catch up! |
| 13:42 |
jeff |
Yes, that page you linked describes how to send the escape codes I mentioned earlier, as well as how to use a control font. See the bit around "Epson has provided a ‘control’ font in the Windows driver that sends the appropriate cash drawer command to the printer when triggered by certain control characters." |
| 13:43 |
jeff |
I do not know if the Star printer you have supports a control font, let alone that same one. It might be worth a look, though. It will still likely require at least some setup in the windows printer settings for that device. |
| 13:44 |
Dyrcona |
Never mind my question. I think the above-shard link answered it for me, as did some thinking on things I've observed as the supermarket. :) |
| 13:44 |
Dyrcona |
s/shard/shared/ |
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Dyrcona |
oh, forget it...... |
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* Dyrcona |
learns to accept the typos. |
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Ryan_LGPL |
I just checked the device settings under printer properties. I do have a peripheral units 1 & 2 lines, with "No use" selected currently! |
| 13:45 |
Ryan_LGPL |
It does have "Page" and "Document" top and bottom options. |
| 13:46 |
Ryan_LGPL |
It also has "Peripheral unit type" setting options, and that is currently set to "Buzzer", but we don't have any type of buzzer currently. |
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Ryan_LGPL |
Cash drawer was the other option under peripheral unit type. |
| 13:49 |
jeff |
This is going to have information useful for configuring the correct settings there, and also has information on using the control font: https://www.starmicronics.com/Support/Mannualfolder/tsp100_sm_en.pdf |
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jeff |
it's linked as the "futurePRNT Software Manual" (where "futurePRNT" is the name of their Windows drivers) from http://www.starmicronics.com/support/ after specifying your TSP100u model. |
| 13:51 |
JBoyer |
Pages 58-60 in here would be useful: https://www.starmicronics.com/Support/Mannualfolder/tsp100_sm_en.pdf |
| 13:51 |
jeff |
After trying to remember how we set up one of our cash drawers, I found that we disabled the automatic drawer kick at staff request, and they just use the key when needed. |
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* JBoyer |
is too slow. :D |
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Ryan_LGPL |
Thanks! I will check that out ASAP! I don't have a manual any more, as our printers are several years old, and I wasn't expecting to ever need to set up something this complicated...I completely forgot to check the manual, in person or online, as a result! |
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jeff |
Dyrcona++ JBoyer++ |
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Dyrcona |
Me? What did I do? I just asked a useless question....and, reminisced about sending printer control codes in the '80s and teletype codes in the '90s. :) |
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jeff |
Fun memories. |
| 14:02 |
jeff |
We used to have a problem where receipts would print without some of their lines, or the lines would be... out of order. |
| 14:03 |
jeff |
Fix ended up being excluding the print spool directories from being scanned by McAfee VirusScan. |
| 14:03 |
jeff |
Issue was related to how the app in question was printing, which actually resulted in one print job per line of receipt. |
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Dyrcona |
Sounds nasty... |
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rhamby |
kmlussier++ |
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