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[Mike Williams]

Isn't one of the goals to make the existing hardware work with linux?

On 11/02/2011 04:13 PM, Steve Romanow wrote:
> 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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