@WrCombs said in Epson Thermal Receipt printer issues: Also, It's not on top of customer receipts. It's only on reports/checkouts/clockouts.. edit I found this out just last night after posting this topic. This is a real help. I would start with the folks that program the backend software running on your terminals. My bet is a change was made that throws the POSBank terms for a loop. Try and stay focused on the root of the problem, changing to windows drivers, changing from serial to USB or network, or changing the emulation will only muddy the waters. You'll get it working, and then not remember what it was EXACTLY that fixed it if you don't make notes on every single key stroke! (can you tell I speak from experience? ) I do like the serial capture idea by Pete, a null modem serial cable and putty with logging turned on will get what you need post haste!

@WrCombs If you're using serial / RS232, I'm guessing that your driver might be outputting in ASCII and might need to be set to ANSI or from 8 bit to 7 bit. Check these against other sites and see what you come up with. The repeated characters are representations of solid lines or simple graphics via the various protocols. At least I've run into this before with a telnet app that we use here.

@dbeato said in lpadmin - remove printer with a space in the name: @DustinB3403 said in lpadmin - remove printer with a space in the name: Nevermind! lpadmin adds spaces as underscores! So with lpadmin -p I was able to find the list of printers. lpadmin -p Accounting_Printer And with lpadmin -x Accounting_Printer was able to remove the printer! Removed Accounting_Printer Good to know for central administration of Apple devices. What are you using right now? ARD and Unix cli

@dbeato said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux: @NerdyDad said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux: @dbeato said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux: You can use CUPS Command Line https://www.cups.org/doc/admin.html lpadmin -p PrinterName -E -v socket://ip.address.of.printer -m printerdriver.ppd Aren't printers and configs saved in a file somewhere? If so, could I copy that file to other minions, similar to remmina connection files as discussed in the other thread? I did not see your other thread but let me check. https://mangolassi.it/topic/18748/chromebox-for-clerks-and-data-entry/54

@Dashrender said in Print to CSV: @scottalanmiller said in Print to CSV: @Dashrender said in Print to CSV: @scottalanmiller said in Print to CSV: @Dashrender said in Print to CSV: @scottalanmiller said in Print to CSV: @CCWTech said in Print to CSV: From what I can tell the program we are using has a built in integration for Excel but you have to have Excel and not something like Libre Office. Likely using the Excel automation API that is unique. I spaced this one. I was thinking the application could be lame and trying to call the excel.exe executable directly. That could be solved with a link to LibreOffice executable - assuming the LibreOffice executable accepts the same arguments. In theory, yes. But I think it is using an API to make it output to CSV. Otherwise, we'd just expect it to open the file and sit there. I assume then that using the API is easier than the application simply outputing to CSV on it's own? I doubt it. sooooo... they did it why? bad programmers? Always, or they just hate the users. But the latter would be crazy.

Short of getting advisories from vendors, just putting something on the calendar is probably best.

@Pete-S said in Am I being to over bearing? Printers: @Dashrender said in Am I being to over bearing? Printers: @travisdh1 said in Am I being to over bearing? Printers: @Dashrender That's what a dedicated label printer is for. They suck even harder than standard printers, but are so nice once they're working. OK - So we looked into that option. The departments need 10+ labels at a time. The EHR is unable to send 10 label print requests to the label printer in one click. Instead, the user has to click print 10 times. Management has said - that is unacceptable. Therefore label printers are out. Whooah, hold your horses here. There are plenty of label printers that could do that. You may not want to pay the price of a real label printer and you might not know that such a thing exists, but that doesn't change reality. This is not a hardware issue. This is a EHR software issue. The vendor would need to change their software to do this - could they? likely very easily, but will they? unlikely. They only seem to care about advancing new things, not fixing, improving existing things.

@phlipelder said in Default printer Webex on Remote Desktop Session: I gather that the terminal client MSTSC has local resources unchecked? Are the printers set up on the Session Host(s) that the users would be using? Are they allowed to choose the default printer via Devices & Printers (Control Panel) or are they not able to get into any Control Panel applets? Yes local resources unchecked. Yes, each session has printers setup on them. They are allowed to choose the printer they want. Everything works except the default printer keeps changing to WebEx.

@wrx7m said in Shared HP Printers - Apply Preferences/Settings to Clients: I figured it out. You have to use the Printer defaults button on the advanced tab. It opens the same window as shown in the OP, but it will apply it to the clients. Yes, that is where you always do it. Remember that when you change printer drivers you need to change it all over.

@obsolesce Right, I am having to add a group of computers to the printers' security permissions with allow printing enabled to get the GPP to actually deploy the printer to the user. UNC pathing to the printer by a member of the PrintersChecksUsers (while the user is logged in) allows them to install and print to the printer. The GPO shows as applied in the RSOP, but with item level targeting, I don't see any info on why it wasn't actually installed/applied. Maybe it shows it somewhere else. The key is the shared printer's security tab on the print server, itself. That is where I have to allow the specific group of computers, as well as the specific group of users. I need both, the computers and users groups to have at least printing allowed.

@scottalanmiller said in Deleting a GPO: @rojoloco said in Deleting a GPO: @dave247 I have a few ideas about who they are specifically... but after they decided to be a bunch of dicks about anyone here posting links to their site that shall not be named, they created an account here to spy, presumably. Lot of former folks here... Lots of for their informers. It's a public site, doesn't take much for someone to inform, lol. It's a bit like tattling on a billboard. That sounds a lot like calling out your Husband by doing this to his ride.

@wrx7m Laniers and RIcoh are the same for the hardware.

I've never used Branch Office Direct Printing, frankly I'm not sure what the gain is over what I'm doing today?

@momurda said in Printer Using WSD vs IP: You can try disabling WSD on the printer itself, if it isn't a service for Windows to see perhaps it wont try to use it. This is the same thing we do to avoid this nasty printer plague

@scottalanmiller said in Did HP Break the Law Vandalizing Your Printer?: @IRJ that sums things up. We've not advanced past Okidata. Gah, stop with the painful (yet colorful) memories!

@DenisKelley said in Standard HP Printer Management Password: I believe HP Web JetAdmin can do this: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/solutions/business-solutions/printingsolutions/wja.html Thanks. It works great.

And... you'd need a database to track the databases! Actually, as I think about it, separating databases really just becomes semantics. As long as it is a single application, separating the databases adds overhead (mostly for the developers) but in reality, it is always still all one datastore. One way or another, the application has to behave essentially the same no matter which way you do it. The one advantage to having them separate is that you can have different "versions" for different customers. But I'm not sure that that is a good thing.

why not just look at a Toshiba mfp, or any color mfp for that fact? Every single one of my Toshiba mfp's 4540 (color) or 356 (b&w) do 11x17 native. No changes and can be used for every day printing, therefore eliminating the specialty. The Toshiba units that I purchased are $7000 but last a million or more prints with proper maintenance.

@Dashrender logged in as the administrator there were no printers. I added and deleted the printer from there multiple times.

Thanks! That's helpful.

@Dashrender said: @IRJ said: @Dashrender said: but I'd say about half are utterly unwilling to do the most basic things when they run into any type of problem. I'm glad I'm not the only one that runs into this. haha