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From: Jeff Liebermann on 8 Feb 2010 15:44
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 18:23:09 -0800, "Mike Jacoubowsky"
<MikeJ(a)ChainReaction.com> wrote:

>I can assure you that, after Apple's iPad announcement, the
>bicycle retail e-list was abuzz regarding the use of tablets as roaming
>point-of-sale terminals.

Umm... what are you going to do for printing receipts? In the state
of Calif, you're required to give a receipt if you charge sales tax.
If the iPad is anything like the iPod Touch, printing is handled by
3rd party applications, usually in some bizarre manner. Others will
only do photos, not ASCII text. For example:
<http://www.hp.com/global/us/en/consumer/digital_photography/free/software/iprint-photo.html>
Epson and Canon have similar apps.

There's a free test applications for Print Magic which does apparently
does ASCII text that's worth trying:
<http://wellala.com/printer_test_app>

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From: Steve Fenwick on 8 Feb 2010 21:53
In article <qbt0n5p3q8pbdl23kg0lujhinjhhidvc1s(a)4ax.com>,
Jeff Liebermann <jeffl(a)cruzio.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 18:23:09 -0800, "Mike Jacoubowsky"
> <MikeJ(a)ChainReaction.com> wrote:
>
> >I can assure you that, after Apple's iPad announcement, the
> >bicycle retail e-list was abuzz regarding the use of tablets as roaming
> >point-of-sale terminals.
>
> Umm... what are you going to do for printing receipts? In the state
> of Calif, you're required to give a receipt if you charge sales tax.
> If the iPad is anything like the iPod Touch, printing is handled by
> 3rd party applications, usually in some bizarre manner. Others will
> only do photos, not ASCII text. For example:
> <http://www.hp.com/global/us/en/consumer/digital_photography/free/software/ipr
> int-photo.html>
> Epson and Canon have similar apps.
>
> There's a free test applications for Print Magic which does apparently
> does ASCII text that's worth trying:
> <http://wellala.com/printer_test_app>

At the Apple Stores, they give you the option to have your receipt
emailed. With WiFi, it shouldn't be hard to have a printer hanging off a
wireless print server.

Yes, the software will need to cooperate. One would hope that would be
part of any good POS system.

Steve

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arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to
skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, chip shot in the other, body thoroughly
used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"
From: Jeff Liebermann on 8 Feb 2010 23:10
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:53:08 -0800, Steve Fenwick
<nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote:

>> There's a free test applications for Print Magic which does apparently
>> does ASCII text that's worth trying:
>> <http://wellala.com/printer_test_app>

I fire up this application at home, and it sees my HP2200dtn printer,
with internal Jetdirect card using both IPP and some other protocol. I
then drive to the office, try the same test application on the same
Ipod Touch, and it doesn't find my office printer, which is exactly
the same HP2200dtn and roughly the same Jetdirect card. Yes, the
wi-fi is working. Welcome to life in printer hell. I'll figure it
out when I have more time.

>At the Apple Stores, they give you the option to have your receipt
>emailed.

Non-compliant with FACT laws. Here's a human readable summary:
<http://www.klgates.com/files/Publication/dfc6105b-d751-4209-8fbc-3323770c8485/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/4627035f-6be9-4e74-b138-362004d87f12/Towle_merchant_receipts.pdf>
Bottom line is a printed receipt is required and that the credit card
and ID numbers must be obfuscated.

>With WiFi, it shouldn't be hard to have a printer hanging off a
>wireless print server.

Assumption, the mother of all screwups.

>Yes, the software will need to cooperate. One would hope that would be
>part of any good POS system.

Ummm... I've always assumed that printing was the responsibility of
the operating system. It's been that way since Windoze 1.0. Are we
now to go back to the bad old daze of MSDOS applications with built in
printer drivers? Yech. If the iPad is to be something more than an
oversized iPod Touch, then some OS/X features need to included.



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From: nospam on 9 Feb 2010 01:19
In article <9vm1n5lau2mi0lu6tboed7oc9bec8nq6m9(a)4ax.com>, Jeff
Liebermann <jeffl(a)cruzio.com> wrote:

> >At the Apple Stores, they give you the option to have your receipt
> >emailed.
>
> Non-compliant with FACT laws.

maybe so but nobody seems to care.
From: Larry on 9 Feb 2010 04:40
nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote in news:080220102219396881%
nospam(a)nospam.invalid:

> but nobody seems to care.
>

There's the really scary part. Noone seems to care what Apple does to
them. They're all in a kind of trance like zombies in an old
movie....standing at the front door all night looking into the store with
that blank look on their faces......



--
"iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!"

Larry

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