[Koha] Printing Slip Issues

[Liz Rea]

Re: the long slips, usually the culprit there is that you need to turn off
the headers and footers on the firefox prints.

*In Firefox:*

Under File → Page Setup:

   - Shrink to fit page on Format & Options tab
   - 0,0,0,0 for Margins on Margins & Header/Footer Tab. This makes the
   receipts use all available space on the paper roll.
   - Set all Headers/Footers to –blank–. This removes all of the gunk you
   might normally find on a print from firefox, such as the URL, number of
   pages, etc.
   - Click OK

Give this a go and see if your slip length improves.

Liz Rea
NEKLS

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Chris Cormack <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz>wrote:

> First thing I would try is printing from notepad, once you get that
> behaving right (to the slip printers ... using the proper drivers) next
> thing would be opening a file in your browser and tweaking the settings for
> margins etc until that prints right.
>
> Once you can print nicely from your browser the only thing you might want
> to do is add or remove some <p> tags in the slip templates so they print out
> right.
>
> Chris
>
> Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >This is what I figured, but I also figured that other Koha users might
> >have some insights to help Cathi.
> >
> >Nicole
> >
> >On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz>
> wrote:
> >> Not really a koha issue I'm afraid Nicole. Koha doesn't print directly
> to
> >> the printer, the browser does it. It used to be able to print via cups
> or
> >> someother print queue, but its not doing that its simply the browser
> >> printing. If they were using linux I might be able to help, but it
> sounds
> >> like a windows printer driver issue and I'm no help there.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> On 29 Dec 2010 13:13, "Nicole Engard" <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I got the following from the Arcadia library and I'm really stuck on
> >> how to help them.  If anyone else has any suggestions can you share
> >> them with us all?
> >>
> >> "We are able to print checkout slips/receipts on the 3 check out
> stations
> >> from
> >> IE only using the Generic/Text driver. We can't print from FF or Chrome
> on
> >> these stations using the Epson U200 driver. On the check-in station we
> can
> >> get
> >> the Epson T220 driver to work with FF for the hold slips/receipts, but
> the
> >> slips are too long and we aren't able to capture all of the holds
> >> consistently--not sure if that is a Koha or FF issue. The receipts are
> still
> >> form feeding twice the length of the receipt than we need or want. What
> are
> >> other libraries using as receipt printers / drivers? This is still an
> active
> >> issue for us. We would like there to be some consistency between the
> >> browsers
> >> in use on the 4 circ stations. What we have now is just a band aid of
> sorts
> >> because we needed to print something for the patrons."
> >>
> >> Thanks a ton,
> >> Nicole
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