Hello:
I have to do a very simple aplication: a Pda reads barcodes, look for the code of the article and the weight, looks for the price and prints a ticket.
The problem, as usual, it has to be done in two weeks.
Do you thing that I can do with your product?
Thanks for your answer
Jose Valle
Jose,
I guess you plan to use the comm port for reading the barcodes. Is that ok ?
What communication system do you plan to use to print the tickets from the pda ? Infrared ? Bluetooth ? comm port ?
Hello Antonio:
I plan to use a Symbol pda PPT-8846. The processor is Intel Xscale PXA250 and has the codebar scanner integrated.
The printer is Star, conected thru bluetooth.
I have no experience with pda and may client is waiting for buying the hardware, so I can still choose another pda
Thanks for your help
Jose Valle
josevalle wrote:I plan to use a Symbol pda PPT-8846. The processor is Intel Xscale PXA250
josevalle wrote: and has the codebar scanner integrated.Then probably the scanned barcode will be transformed as keyboard input. If so, then you should not have any troubles with it.
josevalle wrote:The printer is Star, conected thru bluetooth.We are in the process to provide bluetooth support though it is not currently available. It may be just a matter of a few days.
Jose,
I have forwarded you a spanish email which describes quite well how to use a printer from the pocket pc.
Antonio Linares wrote:Jose,
I have forwarded you a spanish email which describes quite well how to use a printer from the pocket pc.
Richard,
Its in spanish. Anyhow its quite technical so I guess its not difficult to understand it.
These guys sell plugin SD Digital Scan Cards.
http://www.socketcom.com/product/IS5300-464.asp
The Secure Digital Scan Card (SDSC) 3E is a Series 3 Entry Level scanner that adds affordable bar code scanning to your Pocket PC or Palm device. Based on miniature Linear CMOS Imaging technology from Symbol Technologies, the SDSC 3E scans all popular linear bar code symbologies and uses only 57mA of power during scanning to maximize battery life. SocketScan keyboard emulation software sends decoded data to any Windows or Palm application as virtual keystrokes.
I'll be trying one out next week.
Antonio Linares wrote:Richard,
Its in spanish. Anyhow its quite technical so I guess its not difficult to understand it.
I have asked permission to the author of the msg to post it here so everybody can read it.
Hello Antonio.
In the Symbol web I have seen several C programs to deal with the bluetooth printer and the scanner.
I have read that your product (and harbourg) generates C code. Is possible to add code to your generated code.
Thanks
josevalle wrote:In the Symbol web I have seen several C programs to deal with the bluetooth printer and the scanner.
josevalle wrote:I have read that your product (and harbourg) generates C code. Is possible to add code to your generated code.
I think printig is not the problem.
You can send a txt or dbf-file to your PC.
On the PC you have a "Software-PrintServer" runnig,
which checks controlled by a timer if a new file is there.
If yes the file will be printed.
Thanks Otto.
The sellers will be out of the office, and they will have a printer (I don´t know if will be in the car, an star matrix model, or in the belt, a very small zebra printer)
So there is no Pc whith a printer available.
But your idea is good for other situations.
Otto wrote:I think printig is not the problem.
You can send a txt or dbf-file to your PC.
On the PC you have a "Software-PrintServer" runnig,
which checks controlled by a timer if a new file is there.
If yes the file will be printed.
