Hah! I knew you were a closet .net geek. You're so busted ;p Toby who is kidding, btw
On 01/09/2008, at 2:02 PM, Dale Fraser wrote: > > I did it in .NET once. > > A client side program, ran in tray. > > Queried the DB every X seconds, to see if there were any invoices to > be > printed to this client printer, if so print them. > > It worked well, was real time invoicing, it required that PC to be > on and > have the invoice printer appropriately connected. > > Something in Air would work just as well. > > Regards > Dale Fraser > http://learncf.com > http://flexcf.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf > Of Barry Beattie > Sent: Monday, 1 September 2008 12:58 PM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Silent Printing to a Named Printer > > > I'm just putting the finishing touches on something similar, although > it's not POS dockets but PDF's and it had three options: email, print > to a server-connected printer or print to the local printer via a > print dialog -with Javascript. > > The browser (where your CF-based POS lives) doesn't talk to the > printer. It is the operating system that talks to the printer. the > browser negotiates that process with the O/S (hence the print dialogue > where the print type and which printer are selected) > > some points > - which client-side printer will it print to? what if there's more > than one? the obvious answer is the "default" printer, but what > happens if that's not the one needed? or there's no printers > installed? > - "Silently print" means that you want to suppress the print dialog > thrown up by the O/S when javascript calls "print()". IIWY, I'd start > there first. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Gareth Edwards > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Let me clarify what we are looking to do. >> >> We require a solution that silent prints a document to a Printer not >> visible to the Coldfusion server, and in fact only visible to the >> Client >> PC. >> >> Looking for possible, Javascript, Local java client, Local AIR >> application solutions? Due to the nature of this software solution, >> we >> are looking for a one time purchase or a free solution of which we >> are >> able to redistribute to our clients at no additional cost. >> >> Cheers >> Gareth. >> >> Steve Armstrong wrote: >>> We are currently developing a ColdFusion based POS application. We >>> would like to add the ability to silently print a plain text >>> document >>> to a named local client printer (docket printer). In this case the >>> printing would not be the client's default printer. >>> >>> Do we have anyone on cfaussie who has been able to acheive this? >>> >>>> >> >> >>> >> > > > > > ----------------------------------- Life is poetry, write it in your own words ----------------------------------- Toby Tremayne CEO Code Poet and Zen Master of the Heavy Sleep Magic Industries 0416 048 090 ICQ: 13107913 Skype: lyricist1 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
