Available Printers Registry entry

Specifies which printers are available to Vitalware users / groups.

Printers are made available to users / groups with the Available Printers Registry entry.

The Printer Types Registry entry specifies what types of printer are available on the network, e.g. Certificate, Receipt, Cheque. The Available Printers Registry entry associates a specific printer on the network with a type defined in the Printer Types Registry entry and makes it available to users / groups. For example, this entry might specify that printer lp31 is a Certificate printer accessible to members of group Counter.

Note: The user / group is only able to use a printer to print items of the type specified. For example, if printer lp31 is made available to group Counter as a printer of type Certificate, members of group Counter are only able to print certificates on lp31.

Usage

This Registry entry can be assigned to users and groups:

KeyUserGroupGroup
Key 1UserGroupGroup
Key 2usergroupDefault
Key 3Table
Key 4Default
Key 5Available Printers
Key 6type
Valueprinter;printer;...
UseruserTableDefaultAvailable Printerstypeprinter; printer;...
GroupgroupTableDefaultAvailable Printerstypeprinter; printer;...
GroupDefaultTableDefaultAvailable Printerstypeprinter; printer;...

where:

type

is a printer type listed in the Printer Types Registry entry, or it can be set to Default (covering all types of printers, e.g. Certificate, Receipt, etc.).

Note: If no specific purpose printers are used (i.e. we only have printers of type Default), it is not necessary to have a corresponding Printer Types Registry entry.

printer;printer;...

is a semicolon separated list of printer names.

Examples

This entry specifies available printers for the Counter group:

KeySetting
Key 1 Group
Key 2 Counter
Key 3 Table
Key 4 Default
Key 5 Available Printers
Key 6 Default
Value lp31;lp32;lp33;lp34

Members of group Counter are able to use any of four printers: lp31, lp32, lp33 and lp34. These printers could be any type of printer e.g. Certificate, Receipt, etc.).

This entry specifies available Certificate printers for the Counter group:

KeySettingDescription
Key 1 Group 
Key 2 Counter 
Key 3 Table 
Key 4 Default 
Key 5 Available Printers 
Key 6 CertificateThe Certificate type must be specified in a Printer Types registry entry.
Value lp31;lp33 

Group Counter is able to print certificates on lp31 and lp33. It is not possible to print anything other than certificates on these two printers.

This entry specifies the available Receipt printers for the Counter group using the POS module:

KeySetting
Key 1 Group
Key 2 Counter
Key 3 Table
Key 4 epos
Key 5 Available Printers
Key 6 Receipt
Value Star SCP700 (Receipt);\\\\BDMADMIN\\lp31;\\\\BDMADMIN\\lp33

In this case there are three receipt printers available to group Counter.

Note that these printer definitions are for Windows printers. In the above example the Star SCP700 (Receipt) printer is assumed to be connected locally, while lp31 and lp33 are on the network and accessible to Windows. For these printers to function correctly the operator must add the printers locally through the Windows Add Printer facility.