Loading Bug/Request: Simplify Printing

[Jude Coelho]

We would like to avoid needing to change paper in printers at Richmond loading facility by using two printers, but a quirk in firefox makes this inconvenient. Below is more info and steps to make this work (from email)

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Hey all,

We would like to use two printers in loading and avoid having to waste time changing paper. One printer will hold half sheets of paper and be used to print both book slips and manifests. The manifests may need to be redesigned so that the text wraps if it exceeds the page.

The other printer will hold sheets of label paper. This will only be used for printing box labels.

All printing should be initiated by javascript popups. The reasoning for this is that a javascript popup initiated print dialog does not alter the default set printer, but a manually opened one does. As a result, the following can happen, which is the main obstacle in implementing this:

1. Loader prints slips for each book on javascript popup. They only need to press OK as default printer is Printer 1.

2. Loader finishes a box, prints labels. Currently this is done manually.

3. After manually opening print dialog, loader switches to Printer 2 to print labels.

4. Going back to loading books, Printer 2 is now the default when printing a slip, so the loader cannot just hit "ok." They need to switch the printer.

5. Since the book slip print dialogs are generated by js popup, the default printer is not set back to Printer 1. They will need to switch every time.

The simplest way to correct this is, as stated above, make sure that all printing begins from a javascript popup. Then, the only time the loader needs to switch a printer is the one time every box that they are printing labels.

So...

TO DO for Jude and Dan:

1. Make manifests fit on same paper as book slips.
2. Make print dialogs for manifests and labels generated from javascript popup.

This will allow us to use two printers and never have to futz around with paper.

-Jude

[danh (danh-archive)]

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