RE: [U2] Universe/wIntegrate/Thin Client

2004-11-24 Thread Anthony Dzikiewicz 
Please consider re-writing this blurb using indentation and paragraphs.

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Anyway, sorry to all to be long winded and blurby.

Anthony

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Re: [U2] Universe/wIntegrate/Thin Client

2004-11-24 Thread John Hester 
Anthony Dzikiewicz wrote:
Does this sound like a messy set up ?  Would this be robust enough to place
at point of sale where the users are basically kids and are by no means
technical ?  Any comments or insight be anyone who has been down this road
would be appreciated ?
We use thin clients and also do slave printing, but not in conjunction 
with each other.  Combining the two shouldn't be a problem though.  We 
do slave printing for remote users through Accuterm, and it's pretty 
simple to set up.  You just send an escape sequence to the screen, send 
all your print data, then send another escape sequence to terminate the 
print job.  The output goes to whatever Accuterm's default printer is.

If you're going to do this with thin clients, you're going to need, at 
the very least, a beefy Windows 2003 server with terminal services.  You 
may want to add Citrix for better speed and better remote printer 
support.  Your users will log into the server to access their windows 
desktop and have a COM or LPT port mapped to their local thin client's 
printer.

We use the following NeoWare linux thin client, which I highly recommend:
http://www.neoware.com/products/eon/eon_e100.html
You'll want to get the ghostscript and thinprint snap-ins (free). 
Ghostscript will let you use a non-postscript printer to print 
postscript content.

This should be a fairly robust and easily managed environment.  If 
you're using Citrix on the terminal server, support is also enhanced by 
the ability to shadow a user's session and see and manipulate their desktop.

-John
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John Hester
System & Network Administrator
Momentum Group Inc.
(949) 833-8886 x623
http://memosamples.com
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RE: [U2] Universe/wIntegrate/Thin Client

2004-11-24 Thread Brutzman, Bill 
Please consider re-writing this blurb using indentation and paragraphs.

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Hello Everyone,

I am in the midst of thinking up a solution for upgrading dumb terminal/dot
matrix printers at point of sale retail.  We would like to get some new
functionality at these cashiers stations including, printing invoice
receipts on a laser printer, possibly doing credit card auth via web, and
capturing signatures.  Primarily doing the laser printing and then
everything else to follow.  A while back I was trying to see if I could take
the invoice, which is created as a pdf file, transform it to postscript and
echo it thru the parallel 'aux' port on the dumb terminal.  Well this is
just not feasible.  It takes minutes to get that puppy thru to the printer
(the ps file ends up being very large) and you end up needing a special
postscript type printer.  One other thing I did not want to do is to create
a bunch of spooled printers and have the application spool the invoice.  We
are running Linux AS 3.  The spooler sometimes gets sluggish.  Ive had
experience where one printer getting 'hung' can hang the whole spooler (not
just in Linux, but on our old DG and on the older Prime).  So I want the
printing operation to continue to be independent and not interfere with
anything else.   I started looking into wIntegrate and Windows thin clients
as a possible solution.  I figured that the host application could probably
tell wIntegrate to print the document on the local thin client to solve that
problem (invoice being a pdf in a type1 samba share).  I am thinking that we
can link things like credit card auth and signature capture with wIntegrate
as well.  I am looking for anyone who is doing something similar to let me
know if I am on the right track.  I have absolutely no experience with
wIntegrate (I have downloaded the trail version) or windows thin clients.
Does this sound like a messy set up ?  Would this be robust enough to place
at point of sale where the users are basically kids and are by no means
technical ?  Any comments or insight be anyone who has been down this road
would be appreciated ?

Thanks
Anthony Dzikiewicz
Alperts Furniture
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