Print barcode on Micros e7 POS

[tigerchen]

Hi, i'm new to the Micros POS world..

Is it possible to print Barcodes with the e7 system at all? If so how might i go about it..

Thanks!
DC

 

[MZ117]

I am fairly confident that the E7 does not support barcodes (3700 does for sure). I believe it reads them, but it can't print them. (We looked into this several times over the past few years; it may have changed, but I am pretty sure the E7 does not print them.)

 

[Moregelen]

e7 does not support SIMs, therefore does not support printing barcodes because there is no way to send the commands to the TM-88's without a SIM. Could you still do it with an external program? Yes. Could e7 actually trigger that external program? I have no idea...

 

[tigerchen]

Thanks for the ideas.

Moregelen - in terms of triggering that external program, could it be triggered using the SVC interface?

 

[tigerchen]

instead of a barcode, is it possible to just print a unique code? like storenumber+date+checkID (10 digits or something).

we're mainly trying to find a way for receipts to be printed with a unique code across our stores.

 

[Moregelen]

The problem is that e7 is very limited. Could I print a barcode using an svc interface on 3700? Sure, no problem. The TM-88 uses regular old ASCII for commands. ESC/Pos is what they call it. The problem is that I can't really answer that with e7; we so rarely sell it that I have literally no idea how it does svc interfaces. I suppose it never hurts to try.

As to the last one, again, sorry, no idea. E7 doesn't use crystal reports, instead using something built in; I don't believe there is a way to include a formula in them (though, don't quote me on that, it might be there). If it isn't a really large chain of stored you could consider setting each store to a different range of check numbers? Messy, but I'm kind of flailing around in the dark when it comes to anything more than standard on e7.