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emoyeni - Posts:1
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USB Hardware Suitability
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by emoyeni » Mon May 11, 2009 12:02 pm
Hi all.
Having read through all the forums I'm getting nervous about the practicalities of using USB hardware, scanner, keyboard, receipt printer. It would appear that this should be avoided - if this is not the case - why the tones in the forums which suggest this
I will be using a Laptop, modern, so no serial or parallel ports. What's the big deal getting these setup. I haven't tried yet as I need to purchase and I don't want to purchase until I'm confident that the hardware will be compatible.
Thanks.
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by daleadmin » Mon May 11, 2009 6:46 pm
emoyeni,
No problems at all using a USB keyboard.
The vast majority of USB scanners work just fine as long as the "termination" character is set to [ENTER] as most are.
To use a USB printer you will have to set the printer port to FILE: and use the APRINT4.EXE program file that comes with the POS program to send the print stream to the USB port. Read this
http://keyhut.com/postip4.htm
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