Keep in mind that this is based on experience with "Zebra" printers at a large pharma company.
1) This isn't a Satchmo issue. Support for a given printer is generally outside the scope of your invoicing software or ERP software. It's generally within the realm of the drivers for your printing system (Be it cups with its backends, or Windows, or something like UniQ) 2) You're going to have a pile of fun if your choice in printer isn't supported by whatever printing system you choose. So, you might want to have a chat with your printer vendor(s) to determine useful things like "Is this printer supported by the drivers for my printing system?" And you probably want to have a chat with the vendor to find out whether the printer is character oriented, vector oriented, or raster oriented. Because if it's character oriented you may have to create a driver to convert from some flavor of document markup language to properly formatted ascii text. If it's vector or raster oriented, feeding the driver may be perfectly fine. On Jan 4, 9:54 am, Robert Feely <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone have any suggestions on this? > > It's a feature I really need to be able to introduce but I don't want > to go buying the printer etc only to discover its not going to be an > option. > > Thanks > > On Dec 31 2010, 8:27 pm, Robert Feely <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > At the moment my Satchmo store is set up so I can select all the > > orders for a set period, create a4 printable invoices/packing slips > > with integrated labels. > > > I think print the invoice stick the label on the envelope and dispatch > > it. > > > This system works fine but it's going to be quite costly as my orders > > increase, also the laser toner labels can smudge, > > > I'm looking at a thermal printing option instead, it seems to be what > > the big boys such as Amazon use and is the most coft effective option. > > I want to be able to have Satchmo create invoice/labels that can be > > printed on 101 x 151 mm direct thermal labels using a Zebra desktop > > direct thermal printer or equivalent. > > > Has anyone any experience in using direct thermal printers or know if > > it will be possible to do this? > > > One of the problems seems to be direct thermal printers use strange > > languages EPL and ZPL which might make things messy. > > > Any advice on this would be much appreciated. > > > Thanks in advance and Happy New Year! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en.
