Using an ePrint printer for restaurant orders?

[hockey2112]

Hello,

Has anyone here used Zen Cart and an ePrint printer for restaurant orders or similar setups? I've been looking into it, and unless I am mistaken it should be as easy as setting the printer's email address as the order notification email address.

Thoughts, experiences, etc?

[schoolboy]

Interesting idea... If the ePrinter is configured to work off the receipt of an email, then there should be no reason why it would not print an order confirmation message.

[hockey2112]

That's what I was thinking, too. You could probably set up the eprinter to only accept/print emails from a certain email address, eliminating the possibility of spam prints.

[schoolboy]

Set up a dedicated address that sends ONLY order confirmation emails. Try it...

[hockey2112]

Well, it's for a project that has not yet moved forward. Hopefully this new-found theory will help me close them soon and get going on their new website! I will definitely update this thread with any findings that I have.

[DrByte]

If I recall correctly, ePrint prints attachments, and if there is no attachment, then it prints the email body.
I think Zen Cart should print fine, although HTML-formatted messages might print more nicely than text-only ones.
There's lots of information online at HP's website about ePrint. It would probably be worth your time to explore the details.