THERMAL RECIEPT PRINTERS ARE DIRT CHEAP PEOPLE! Seriously, look about ebay. I know I've only been HERE for a couple of days, but please don't turn this into another TOTSE, with the over-complicated, completely inane posts that profess to be the hotest scam/drug/bomb/whatever when they ammount to little more than theory. Seriously guys, I understand brainstorming, but unless you've ever actually done what this guy is asking about, you prolly shouldn't be giving tips.
Now, as I said before, Thermal reciept printers are cheap as hell on ebay. Prior to my devorce I had a ton of em "just because", $5-20 for a good one, a little more if you want colour, yes they make colour thermal. Next cover the barcodes. I do not know why people still flip out at bar codes like they are some kind of magical element, they are pretty damned easy, you have a start sequence, you have the actual bars, which represent letters and numbers etc, followed by a stop sequence. They are used because they are standardised, and standardised things are easily available. For anyone interested in pulling off barcodes, I recommend going to visit wikipedia's articles on barcodes, then google the appropriate type of code which is available freely usually as a font, AND as program, seriously kids, google (or any SE) way more convenient then registering to a forum and assking one of us. |