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Function documentationGeneric Printing

 

This feature provides capabilities that allow you to customize print output and control the POS printer to print specified transaction information. For example, you can group transaction items by department and have the POS print the items in order of department on the receipt. Generic printing also allows you to do the following:

  • Design the output layout and choose the information to print

  • Set up different print formats for each transaction type

  • Define the destination (the printer, slip, receipt, or file) to which the output is sent

  • Define when customer receipts are printed. For example before the validation documents on the slip printer

  • Change the printing order of the transaction list. For example, you can group the negative sales items (the return or exchange items) at the top of the receipt and group the regular sales items at the bottom of the receipt.

To use generic printing, you must define a document to print. The document you define could be a receipt for a regular sale, or a validation slip.

To configure generic printing for a document, you set parameters in each of the following categories under the Generic Print icon:

  • Document Maintenance

    Here, you create the document and specify the transaction information to print, such as transaction number, price, taxes, and store number.

  • Link Documents

    Here, you link the document to its trigger source.

  • Physical Properties

    Here, you define the type of document the print output should be, for example, a receipt.

  • Processing Rules

    Here, you define processing specifics such as the print priority or number of copies to print. For more information about processing rule parameters, see Processing Rule.

Before every transaction is completed, the POS searches the generic print design tables for any configured documents to be printed. When a generic printing configuration is detected, the POS prints the output according to the configuration. Printing may be triggered by any of the following transaction elements:

  • MGR/POS function

  • Non-merchandise transaction

  • Department

  • Discount

  • Tender

Prerequisites

Before you begin to configure generic print criteria, you must have the following information available:

  • The type of document you want to set up (for example, a receipt)

  • Information required on the document (for example, store number, transaction number, price, taxes)

  • Print priority level and number of copies to print

  • How the print function should be triggered (for example, whenever the transaction tender is cash)

In addition, you must ensure the following:

  • The Store Configurator is open

  • There are no other print options for a tender or regular sale set

  • The triggering element has been defined

  • The conversion process has run in the Store Configurator after any changes made to the configuration tables.

Example

See the documentation for Configuring a Cash Tender Receipt for Printing

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