Micros 3700 Custom Check

[Wildbar]

I would like to add more lines of text after the Micros trailer on guest checks / reciepts. The existing trailer lines dont give me enough room for what i want Is there a quick and somewhat easy way to do this?
Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[pmegan]

I don't know about quick and easy, but you can do this with a SIM print_trailer event. You can put up to 8 trailer lines of up to 32 characters per event.

You'll have to set up a SIM interface in Devices/Interfaces. Then create a text file and save it as pms#.isl in the \micros\res\pos\etc folder, substituting the interface number for #.

The event in the text file will look something like this:

event print_trailer: myblurb
   //             12345678901234567890123456789012
   @trailer[1] = "Put a line of text here "
   @trailer[2] = "another line "
   @trailer[3] = "etc "
   @trailer[4] = "etc "
   @trailer[5] = " "
   @trailer[6] = " "
   @trailer[7] = " "
   @trailer[8] = "done"
endevent

In your trailer setup enter @@myblurb where you want the SIM trailer to go.

Copy the .isl file to the workstations and you should be set.

 

[Wildbar]

Thanks for the reply. Quick question....would i need to have a license code for the SIM interface to use it this way? I beleive i would.
Thanks

 

[pmegan]

No, I think that's more for 3rd party SIM products. You should be able to run header and trailer scripts without one.

 

[cageking1]

Would this same kind of method be used if you wanted to add a larger bitmap image? Meaning, it seems to me that I am limited to around 200 pixels vertically for any bitmap I want to print for my company logo. Is there anyway to modify that to accept larger (taller) images?

Thanks

 

[Wildbar]

Long shot but could you have multiple trailers and some how call them randomly? Or every 10th bill prints the extended trailer?
Thanks again

 

[pmegan]

cageking - I'm pretty sure the bitmap max size isn't something that can be modified. I wouldn't even know where to start looking at it in a SIM script.

wildbar - You should be able to do something like that. There's a @random system variable that you might be able to use. Or a modulus operator that you could run against the check #. Something like this:

event print_trailer: myblurb

	if @CHKNUM % 10 = 0
	   //             12345678901234567890123456789012
	   @trailer[1] = "Put a line of text here "
	   @trailer[2] = "another line "
	   @trailer[3] = "etc "
	   @trailer[4] = "etc "
	   @trailer[5] = " "
	   @trailer[6] = " "
	   @trailer[7] = " "
	   @trailer[8] = "done"
   endif
endevent

 

[Wildbar]

Thank you

 

[Wildbar]

One more question. I want to print the database value of the check on the custom receipt...but cant figure how to pull it. Something like...

@trailer[1] = "Your Entry Id is:" {@cknum}


But of course mine does not work
Thanks

 

[Wildbar]

Figured it out....forgot the variable
Cheers