On July 21, 2009 UNF is scheduled to undergo the upgrade from Aleph 18 to Aleph 19. As part of our preparation for that event, we are looking at how v19 handles receipt printing. UNF already has receipt printing configured and if your school doesn't I highly recommend it. Contact Ellen Bishop at FCLA for help with this one. She and Robb Waltner (then Head of Access Services) put together the templates which are now part of our client package and carry over from version to version.
What does not carry over are the settings which I would like to share in case anyone else needs to do this. I must say in advance that I had intended to do this myself this week but Robb (now Head of Acquisitions) beat me to it). Once you have v.19 Test installed and your receipt printer set as your default printer you must implement the following steps:
1. Set the receipt printer to be the default system printer.
2. Edit the circ\TAB\print.ini to P for loan and return receipt.
3. Run htmlprint.exe (in alephcom\bin) and set the margins to 3,2,3,2. Note: This is different from v18.
4. Edit alephcom\TAB\alephcom.ini to NewPrintType=Y
5. In the Circ client under Aleph - Options - set up loan options select "all loans in one receipt".
6. In the Circ client under Aleph - Options - set up return options select "print return receipt"
7. Edit alephcom\TAB\alephcom.ini to defaultPrintConfig=0 in order to bypass the print preview.
That should get the receipt printers humming. Again thanks to Robb for doing the labor on this one.
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