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Looking for advice on how to do this - remote printingHow many daily tickets on average? -- Ryan LeTulle > > I am working on a project where I am going to have to print up a job > ticket in a remote location. An event happens on the web site, and > it causes this job ticket to print out in one of perhaps thousands of > locations unattended. The people who are going to fill the job will > have no interaction with teh system except to take the job ticket off > the printer and do the task. > > We've specced out the whole application except for the part where we > connect all these remote locations to the web site. What i want is > to be able to push a xml packet to this remote location and get back > an ack so i know its been received and executed. > > Since there will be minimal training of the staff at the remote > locations and they wont necessarily have access to IT staff or other > specialists, we were hoping to be able to keep it as simple as the > EFTPOS terminals they have in retail stores. The main difference > is that with a EFTPOS terminal the store clerk starts the transaction > - we're going to start this transaction at the other end and push it > down to the remote location. > > Daily running cost is a factor, so we dont want to have the remote > devices making calls to our system by modem every few minutes - we > want to have it all run from our web site. > > Any ideas on how this could be done? > > The environment as far as we have it: > > We have a CF8 Enterprise/Win2003/SQLServer web site, and think the > remote sites will need a small low-cost self-contained Linux box with > a little thermal printer or something but exactly how they're > connected we havent worked out yet. > > Anyone have experience with this kind of scenario? Perhaps a factory > job ticket or a retail point of sale system maybe? > > -- > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > AFP Webworks > http://afpwebworks.com > ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month > > |
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