Does anyone have any experience with receipt printers? And in particular using them from a web application?<br><br>My web foo is utterly failing me. Everyone wants to sell you a complete Point of Sale System. I found Epson's documentation, but it was nearly a thousand pages and was ... not as clear as one would expect a bloated, thousand page document to be.<br>
<br>What I really want to know is:<br><br>* Are these just printers with a very strange printer size? And as such, I can just very carefully format a web page and tell javascript to load the window in the background, print, and close it, and call it good?<br>
<br>OR<br><br>* Are these strange devices that require some sort of specialized software or middleware? And if so, are there any that someone's written a Perl module to interface with?<br><br>And if anyone has experience with a particular model, that'd be interesting (to me) too. (Well, not really, I can't imagine a circumstance where receipt printers would actually be interesting.)<br>
<br>Sorry to go slightly astray from basic perl questions. Sometimes in life, non-technical people seem to get the idea that the person who knows some technical thing is instantly an expert on all technical things and ask questions that you don't even have the basic framework of understanding to answer, and they need to know how you'll get it done, like, now. :/ I'm pretty sure the answer is "It's easy, just get one and I'll have it working in half a day" or "Forget it, it'll take a month of development time to get it working", but I can't for the life of me figure out which one of those it is.<br>
<br>Thanks for any help!<br><br>-- Kirby<br>