Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Staff Client Interface for Use of Physical Cash Drawers

2012-06-01 Thread Justin Hopkins
As the originator of the previously mentioned thread on cash drawers I'll share what I've learned since then: Basically nothing. The previous ILS of the library in question was TLC, and they had apparently provided a Windows driver that enabled integration with TLC's ILS and the printer that t

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Staff Client Interface for Use of Physical Cash Drawers

2012-05-31 Thread Jessie Bunker-Maxwell
Hi Lebbeous, We haven't bought any cash drawers yet but I think some people at our library were under the impression that there was an Evergreen interface that would work with "smart" cash drawers and we wanted to be certain about the status of Evergreen before we moved ahead with any purchases. T

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Staff Client Interface for Use of Physical Cash Drawers

2012-05-31 Thread Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley
Jess, Do you have a "smart" cash drawer or something that knows how much money it has in it? The kind of cash drawer that Galen and Aaron are talking about doesn't do anything special except open when you tell it to. Such a device doesn't have any information to share with the ILS. There

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Staff Client Interface for Use of Physical Cash Drawers

2012-05-31 Thread Jessie Bunker-Maxwell
Galen and Aaron - thanks for the information - we do have Star TSP100 receipt printers and I saw your email from last year, Aaron, with the suggestion to physically connect a cash drawer to the Star printer, etc. That didn't seem like a true software interface, i.e., there is no data connection bet

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Staff Client Interface for Use of Physical Cash Drawers

2012-05-31 Thread Aaron Zsembery
> "Galen Charlton" wrote: > There is no defined interface, but there was some discussion [1] last > year on a possible workaround, involving use of certain models of > printers that can have cash drawers attached to them and using a > control code in the circ receipt as a signal to open the drawer

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Staff Client Interface for Use of Physical Cash Drawers

2012-05-31 Thread Aaron Zsembery
> "Jessie Bunker-Maxwell" wrote: > Has anyone out there replaced their cash registers with cash drawers > and if so, is there an interface that allows the Evergreen Staff > Client to work with the cash drawers? > Scanning posts to this list and the Evergreen documentation, I am > unable to determi

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Staff Client Interface for Use of Physical Cash Drawers

2012-05-31 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi Jessie, On May 31, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Jessie Bunker-Maxwell wrote: > Has anyone out there replaced their cash registers with cash drawers and if > so, is there an interface that allows the Evergreen Staff Client to work with > the cash drawers? > > Scanning posts to this list and the Evergree

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Staff Client Interface for Use of Physical Cash Drawers

2012-05-31 Thread Jessie Bunker-Maxwell
Has anyone out there replaced their cash registers with cash drawers and if so, is there an interface that allows the Evergreen Staff Client to work with the cash drawers? Scanning posts to this list and the Evergreen documentation, I am unable to determine if this interface even exists. Thanks f