Hi folks, I am a LedgerSMB novice that has put himself in need of assistance. I've been lurking on the list reading messages and looked through the archives at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=ledger-smb-users for any information on this. I have not seen the answer I need so far. I need to move fast on this so if any of you have even a partial answer, can point me to a FAQ with the answers and/or to a manual page or three please reply.
I have a potential LSMB user that needs to print on three part, plain, pin-feed form paper for many of their Point of Sale transactions that deal with credit accounts for state schools. Their current PoS system (Advantage Accounting PoS, http://www.rtsco.com/) does this using fast, plain text print jobs to 'lp' based printers on an SCO OpenServer system (in this case one at lpt0 the other on a multi-port serial board port). Since SCO appears to be imploding and their current server hardware is "dying" I have talked these folk into trying LSMB on Linux but they have to have this multipart form printing capability. I asked for an explanation of why they have to have multipart forms. Here is what they have to do to satisfy the state school system's accounting department and be "allowed" to sell to state schools. The Point of Sale printout must be on 8.5"x11" multipart paper as required by the state. The teachers buying supplies against these credit accounts are required to sign the multipart printout and keep one copy to deliver to their school office. Another copy stays at the store and then is delivered at the end of each month to the school's overseeing local school board with the bill to be paid. The original part stays at the Point of Sale location for them to present in case of a state audit of a school's purchases. They have to keep this original for at least three years. Isn't bureaucratic nonsense just peachy? I know I can set up an Epson impact printer with ESC/P2 capability to print correctly using one of the CUPS Epson inkjet drivers. I have an Epson LQ-570+ here that I use on rare occasions which prints raster type jobs well using the "Stylus 800 Foomatic/stcolor" driver. It will also print plain text jobs if I bypass the CUPS driver and send the print request directly to the parallel port with embedded printer control codes. There are three questions I need answered: 1. Will an impact printer work well with printing from LSMB? 2. Is anyone successfully using an impact printer with LSMB in a Point of Sale situation? 3. Is it possible to have fast, plain text print jobs from LSMB or do all print jobs have to go through the slower raster type printing with Latex -> postscript? Thank all of you in advance for any information. Gene Alexander -- ERA Computers & Consulting <http://www.eracc.com> Preloaded computers - eComStation, Linux and Unix Voice messages: 1(731)256-0973 - FAX & Voice messages: 1(731)664-8524 [E-mail preferred. Please reply BELOW this line.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
