Printing to more than two printers

Posted by Terry on April 5, 2007, 4:58 pm

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In RMS i have a choice of printing to two printers after a transaction but
this is not enough since i have five distribution points and a printer at
each location and i need to be able to print a receipt to any one of them at
any given time fron one PC. At present i can only do this with 2 printers,
can you tell me how i can incorporate the other 3 without adding another
computer to the mix.

Posted by Glenn Adams [MVP - Retail Mgmt on April 6, 2007, 6:10 pm

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That's a stumper... I can't even think of a way to do that through an
add-in. Well, maybe you could have a utility that changes the name of
your windows printer before RMS tries to print to it.

Check around for 3rd party utilities for print distribution. You would
want something that acts as a print driver but pops up a selection list
that allows you to choose a printer. Sort of the way that adobe acrobat
can act as a printer, but just redirecting the print instead of
distilling it to a file...

Glenn Adams
Tiber Creek Consulting
http://www.tibercreek.com
glenn@tibercreek.com
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Terry wrote:

> In RMS i have a choice of printing to two printers after a transaction but

> this is not enough since i have five distribution points and a printer at

> each location and i need to be able to print a receipt to any one of them at

> any given time fron one PC. At present i can only do this with 2 printers,

> can you tell me how i can incorporate the other 3 without adding another

> computer to the mix.

Posted by hozay on April 9, 2007, 6:18 pm

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not the best way but mite help
add all the 5 printers to the windows program
when prompted to print a receipt reply no
then use the journal to reprint and select the printer you need to print to
not the best way but it will work

"Glenn Adams [MVP - Retail Mgmt]" wrote:

> That's a stumper... I can't even think of a way to do that through an

> add-in. Well, maybe you could have a utility that changes the name of

> your windows printer before RMS tries to print to it.

> Check around for 3rd party utilities for print distribution. You would

> want something that acts as a print driver but pops up a selection list

> that allows you to choose a printer. Sort of the way that adobe acrobat

> can act as a printer, but just redirecting the print instead of

> distilling it to a file...

> Glenn Adams

> Tiber Creek Consulting

> http://www.tibercreek.com

> glenn@tibercreek.com

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> Please DO NOT respond to me directly but post all responses here in the

> newsgroup so that all can share the information.

> Terry wrote:

> > In RMS i have a choice of printing to two printers after a transaction but

> > this is not enough since i have five distribution points and a printer at

> > each location and i need to be able to print a receipt to any one of them at

> > any given time fron one PC. At present i can only do this with 2 printers,

> > can you tell me how i can incorporate the other 3 without adding another

> > computer to the mix.

> >

Posted by Afshin Alikhani on April 15, 2007, 9:10 am

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I suggest that you think of this differently. Do not try to print at all
from POS. Rather when th eorder is taken have a picking and packing
function that shows you what is to be picked and pack and use that. Write
me an email exlaining more your operation as we have several add-ons that
may be able to help you.

Afshin Alikhani - [ afshin@retailrealm.co.uk ]
CEO - Retail Realm
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> In RMS i have a choice of printing to two printers after a transaction but

> this is not enough since i have five distribution points and a printer at

> each location and i need to be able to print a receipt to any one of them

> at

> any given time fron one PC. At present i can only do this with 2 printers,

> can you tell me how i can incorporate the other 3 without adding another

> computer to the mix.