Ticket Printing feature

[rclark]

 

Excellent. Love ticket printing.

I am off to my local office supply store to buy some pages of laser printable stickers to try them out.

Well done!

Rob

[rclark]

UPDATE:

- purchased some laser-print labels. 21 labels to one A4 sheet
- spent about 2hrs formatting tickets to print exactly in the right places
- looks excellent

But ... this is not practical as every installation will have different browser/printer combos and the hotspt owner will not want to spend all the time needed to format these labels.

So.....have just ordered a USB  'label printer' that prints one small label at a time. Will test and report back.

[rclark]

UPDATE:

Bought one of these:
http://www.brother.com.au/Products/PTouch_productoverview.asp?ProductID=162&SubCategoryID=23

Came with a roll of label paper.

Printed beatiful tickets (on sticky labels)  The Worldspot 'default' label came out very nice.

Now....off to buy some simple paper rolls for this printer - I think it will be simpler to just print on paper.

Stay Tuned!

[rclark]

UPDATE:

The Good News:
The Brother QL-500 label printer is great, and cheap. It prints beautiful labels/tickets.

The Bad News:
The labels are expensive (AU$0.05 to AU$0.10 each). Brother does not sell a 'paper' (not sticky label) roll for this printer.

The Really Bad News:
Although this is a thermal printer, you can not print on standard (cheap) thermal printer paper rolls. Grrr! The printer insists on 'seeing' the marks Brother prints on the back of the labes it sells.

The Surprising news:
 A simple thermal 'receipt' printer - as seen on many POS (Point Of Sale) terminals - are VERY expensive. 300% more expensive than my Brother label printer. I can not see why I can buy an A4 laser printer here in Australia for less money than a small thermal 'receipt' printer.

So - for ticket printing on a small printer I have these options:

• cheap printer (QL-500), and expensive consumables
• expensive printer, and cheap consumables.

 

[WorldSpot]

I still don't see why you don't want to mass print tickets on a standard (color) printer.
Then you buy the thing (I don't know the word) to cut all the pages together cleanly.
Et voila!

[rclark]

You are still looking at this from an engineer's view. (... I am an engineer by the way  ) I would be happy to do exactly what you say.

But - I am looking at this from my customer's view. My customer is the hotspot owner. His business is running a Cafe/Motel/Inn/etc. He is non-technical. He likes his life to be simple and convenient. He also employs low-paid idiots that don't care. The idiots will have to 'manage' the ticket sales.

I will offer the option of Mass Tickets->Mass Print->Cut. That will be the cheap option.

But I also want to offer a more professional option as well.

If my cheap-ticket-printer idea worked I would be very happy. But - alas - no such luck. Not to worry. I will keep thinking....

Thanks

Rob