jpldisplays Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Hi All.. We have just purchased a used Kodak Picture Maker G3. I have set the machine up and it is working fine but I was wondering if there is a way to print out an Order Summary each time a customer prints there pics?? When you submit an Order it just seems to go ahead and print, how would we know how many prints and what size prints a customers has printed Cheers, Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Do you not have a receipt printer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpldisplays Posted July 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Thanks for your reply.. No, there does not seem to be a receipt printer in the machine Is this usually optional? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpldisplays Posted July 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 This is pretty much what our machine looks like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Well I would have thought they would be standard... Looks like yours is supposed to go in the yellow square above the card readers or maybe to the left of the cd drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpldisplays Posted July 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Yes, above the card reader it seems, see below: Ours does not have the slot in it for the paper so I would expect there is nothing behind there?? Do you know what brand/model of receipt printer they use?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 It should be behind the slot, top right. Have you checked behind there? Maybe it's just run out of paper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpldisplays Posted July 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 That last pic is not our machine, it is a pic I found on the web a few minutes ago. Our machine does not have the slot at all, the machine is identical to that pic except it does not have the slot which leads me to believe that it does not have a receipt printer at all. I will check for sure in the Morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 This is our receipt printer: Which you can find here: http://www.starmicronics.com/printers/printers_pages/kiosks/np_mechs/NP-325.html and here: http://www.kestronics.co.uk/np325-page.htm You might have software issues too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpldisplays Posted July 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Thanks for your help!! There are a couple of these selling on eBay at the moment that seem pretty cheap so if ours does not have it atleast it will not cost the earth to get one.. I checked the manual today and there seems to be some references to setting up a receipt printer but the options are not there in the kodak software, perhaps these will only come up when the printer is installed Cheers!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 You might need to go to E:\Installer and run ReceiptPrinterEnabler.bat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpldisplays Posted July 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Will give it a try.. will let you know how I get on tomorrow cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpldisplays Posted July 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Took the cover off today in the top right corner and sure enough this is where the printer is meant to be but it is not there. I ran the Script you sugested and it nome comes up with the options to setup up the receipt printer so I just need to get hold of one. I called Kodak today and they were not much help at all so I might just try and get one of these used ones of eBay and see how I go... I also tried to get it to burn a CD today and found that it checks to see if the blank disk is a Kodak Picture Disk and keeps telling me to use an original Kodak Picture Disk. Well I thought I would see what the cost of these are and the Distributors wants $150.00AU for a pack of 50 disks which is an outrage. Do you know if there is any way around this?? Cheers!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 No way round it as far as I know, it will only write Kodak Picture CD's which are rubbish. You can only put 120 images on each CD even if they're tiny files. We keep some in stock as some customers like the Kodak Picture CD's but we try to discourage them. The Kodak Cds are just multi session cds with data already on them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpldisplays Posted July 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 So they are not Blank CD's to start with then?? hmm, I thought they would be using some Media Code Specific disks.. If there is Somthing on them surely we can create an ISO image and leave the session open and recreate the Disks. Instants Prints is somthing somthing we wanted to add for walk in customers, we actually specialize in Blank Media and CD/DVD Duplication and after checking what the disks Kodak actually use I was horrified I don't have any disks to mess about with so I can't test, have you tried to copy one of the Picture CD's?? If it has an open session then it may well not be possible to do a direct copy but it may be possible to recreate an ISO image from it and then re-use it to duplciate some Media Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 No the Cds are not blank, they have the Kodak Easyshare software on them and all other kinds of rubbish Purely out of interest I made an image of one of them using Nero (199mb) and then burnt it back to a normal CD and it worked fine in the Picture Maker. I assume though that to do this for customers would breach Kodaks copyright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor brown Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 The new version 1.5 software for the G3's & G4's will allow upto 250 images on the cd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilT Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 250 images WOW !!! sorry no idea why but that just made me laugh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colopt Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 $3.00 each for a CD full of junk, and you can only put 150 or 250 photos on them! Yes that is funny ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpldisplays Posted July 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 Hi All, I was wondering if someone can check a couple of things for me? When your Kodak Kiosk boots up and it goes through the devices check screen one of the last things it checks is the receipt printer, can you tell me what the Information Column says when it finds the receipt printer? Can you also check for me if the receipt printer plugs into a serial port on the back of the Kiosk and if it does how many serial ports are on the back of your machine? I am told buy someone from Kodak that I also need to Install another Serial Port card in the machine, there is one serial port on the back of the machine already but I need to know if this is the port that is used for the Printer Cheers!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 Receipt printer is on COM 3, we have a LAVA QUATTRO card on our machine which provides more serial ports, will tryand give you more details later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 Passwords: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpldisplays Posted July 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Hi JP, Thanks for the Password list, very handy... I was also wondering if you can tell me if your receipt printer exists as a normal printer under windows printer sub system, Under Control Panel/Printers Cheers!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 No, it is not installed as a standard printer. Here is a screenshot of our device manager. Lava Quattro Port C must be COM3. There are 4 serial ports on the back of our machine but none are being used, I assume the receipt printer connects to an internal serial port. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpldisplays Posted July 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Hi JP, Can I ask you to check your "hardcopy output setup" in control panel and see if there is any reference to your receipt printer in there?? Thanks again!! Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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