Receipt Print Control at the Remote Printer (Example)

In the following, you will be informed about how to configure a remote printer, establish the connection between the terminal and the printer tables, and carry out the receipt print control via the remote printer (kitchen printer).

The following programs are of decisive importance for the receipt print control (provided that installation, system unit, terminals, terminal types etc. have been configured):

• Configure a Process Unit of the type Device.
• Configure Devices (= <Remote printers) and assign them to this process unit.
• Create at least one Printer Table and assign it to the terminal that is to control the receipt print.
• In the printer table, the Printer Types are embedded; every printer type is based on a (unique) remote printer. The printer type has then more or less the function of an index.
• Every printer type is physically described and assigned to the Device via the Printer Description.
• In the window Printer Parameters, you define – depending on possible parameter settings in the windows Item and Branch – the "Receipt type ".

In concrete terms, this takes place as follows (a detailed description can be found in the corresponding program descriptions):

1. Configuration of a Process unit of the type Device
• Go to System->Configuration -> Process Unit.
• First, select the installation with which you are working.
• Enter a free Process Unit Number (e.g. 4001).
• Enter a descriptor, e.g. Device or Device Server.
• Select the Program type Device.
• Assign the Device to a System Unit by entering the appropriate number.
  Attention:
  You may install only one Program type Device per system unit!
• Save your entries.
2. Configuration of the Remote Printer as a Device
• The remote printer is to be connected as a Device via the previously installed Device.
• Open the window Device.
• Select the device type Kitchen printer.
• Select the printer to be installed in the field Printer type.
• Every printer has to be installed with a unique device number.
• The rest of the data (Cut off, Baud rate etc.) will be displayed – if it is a predefined printer (e.g. ADS 400064, ADS 402064, ADS 403064). If not, you have to look up the necessary information in the printer manual.
  The entry in the field Device Interface is important: Define the terminal card as the interface, e.g. COM A.
  Attention!
  Only LSV printers can be deployed as kitchen printers.
• Save your entries.
3. Assignment of the printer table to a terminal
• Open the window Terminals and select the terminal which is to control the receipt print.
4. Then open the window Printer Table.
• If this has not already been done, create a printer table by entering a free table number and a table description. In this table, the various printer types will be stored.
• Save your entries.
5. Open the window Printer Description.
• Assign a printer type by entering the corresponding number. If no Printer Type has been installed yet, you have to open the window Printer Type first and install the type by entering a printer type number and a description. Every remote printer will be embedded in the table with a unique printer type number. Save your entries.
• Enter the number of the installation to which the printer is assigned.
• A remote printer must be assigned to a server process. Link the Device you assigned in Process Units (see above).
• Enter the device number with which the printer has been installed in the window Deveice.
• In the field Aux. Server Proc, you can enter a substitute remote printer. On this printer, the receipt will always be printed if the server process breaks down. If there is no entry made here, the receipt will be printed on the terminal printer when the server process breaks down. The receipt will also be printed on the terminal printer if both the server process and the substitute remote printer break down.
• Enter the device number of the substitute printer in the field Server Device No.. This number is to be maintained via Device, too.
• Deactivate the option Local Printer.
• By activating the option Collect receipt, you can also print collective receipts on the remote printer. If the collective receipts are actually printed depends on the settings in the program Printer parameters.
• Close the window.
6. Save the printer description in the window Printer Table. Close the window.
7. Go to Terminals  -> Tables -> Printer para table.
• The following four "receipt types" determine the receipt print on a remote printer:
• Kitchen receipt
• Kitchen talon
• Kitchen receipt GC
• Kitchen talon GC
• Make sure
• that these entries correspond to possible parameter settings in the windows Item and Branch,
• that the kitchen receipt and the kitchen talon are deployed at itemising terminals, and that the kitchen receipt GC and the kitchen talon GC are deployed at waiter terminals.
8. Definition of the receipt type in the window Item
• Open the window Item.
• Open the sub-window Devices.
• In the field Receipt print type, decide if - and if yes – which single receipts are to be printed:
• No entry
  The receipt print control takes place via the entry in the window Department (Parameter: receipt print type). If no entry is made there, too, a collect receipt will be printed at best (see the description below of No receipt).
• No receipt
  No receipt will be printed. However, a collective receipt will be printed if the option Collective receipt has been activated in the window Printer description (see above).
• Single/Double/Triple Receipt
  For each item, 1/ 2/ 3 receipts will be printed.
9. Definition of the receipt type in the window Department
• Open the window Department.
• Define the printer via the field Printer Type. The printer is to be maintained via the program Printer Type. By assigning a printer type to the Department, you define the remote printer on which the receipts are to be printed.
• Define via Receipt Print Type if – and if yes – which single receipts are to be printed:
• No entry
  If an entry has been made in the window Item, it applies. If no entry has been made, a collective receipt will be printed. This requires, though, that the option Collect receipt has been activated in the window Printer Description (see sbove).
• No receipt
  No (single) receipt will be printed. If the option Collect receipt has been activated in the window Printer Description, a collective receipt will be printed.
• Single/ double / triple receipt
  For every department booking transaction, 1/ 2/ 3 receipts will be printed.
• Note:
  Entries in the window Item have a higher priority than any entries in this window.

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