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[Steve Romanow]

zebra printers work with linux, and some of these are small.

reportlab and labelnation will do barcodes nicely.

reportlad outputs pdf and labelnation ps.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Mike Williams <knightperson at zuzax.com> wrote:
>> On 11/02/2011 03:43 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
>>> They've also already got a fully-working setup with Windows. They
>>> don't *have* to switch to Linux; the Casino Kiosk project has been
>>> largely about showing them, "hey, you can go this route, too!" It's an
>>> evangelist project.
>>>
>>> Besides, if these touchscreens can be made to work properly on Linux,
>>> especially by default, a number of possibilities are opened up.
>>>
>>> As for the cash receptor and printer, getting that thing working
>>> properly under Linux opens up opportunities for others.
>>>
>> I guess, but we're looking at a whole system swap. With the lack of drivers
>> for the bill acceptor we're looking at essentially writing a driver from
>> scratch, and that could be a very messy hack job. To make the printer work
>> is becoming fairly complicated also. The current version, if I'm deciphering
>> the emails right, renders barcode in the software driver. The printer is
>> capable of generating them with built-in templates, but the system that
>> reads them and cashes out might not understand them if they're different
>> from what the Windows software builds.
>
> Barcodes are typically standardized.[1] What's the standard behind
> these? I'll wager there's already Linux software somewhere to generate
> the image data for the standard in question. If not, well, I imagine
> this is how support for a lot of stuff gets added to the open-source
> realms.
>
>> True, we could replace the cash acceptor with something less weird, but it
>> seems like the further in we dig the more complicated the project gets.
>
> You're reaching the last 10%, sounds like. :)
>
> [1] Yes, there are many standards to choose from.
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