Card Printer Driver Developement

[Premjo]

Hi Mr.Shawn,
  Thank you very much for your valid input.
premjo

> On Tuesday 18 September 2007 10:50:36 pm Premjo wrote:
> > Our printers have facility to encode on magstripe and chip, how do i can
> > incorporate the specific commands to take the card for encoding inside the
> > printer? do i can add my own ? i want to show a screen on the tab saying
> > color settings, k panel settings, etc. my own screens?
>
> For ideas about what's possible, I'd suggest you take a look at the
> documentation for the "Open Platform" driver for DataCard's SP series
> printers.  It works via CUPS and does everything you mention.
>
> Also, I quite like DataCard's choice of a web services API for the control
> that can't be handled through CUPS (things like determining when the card has
> reached the chip station, or reading data from the magstripe).  It's a very
> well-designed and easy-to-use API, accessible from any language that has web
> service client bindings, which is just about every thing.
>
> DataCard's driver and documentation is available on their web site.  I don't
> recall if there's anything in the license that would prohibit you from
> studying their approach, but since you're obviously a competitor of theirs,
> you should probably read the license carefully.
>
> I work on software that uses card printers, and I can tell you that if you
> follow DataCard's approach, you'll increase the odds that I'll want to buy
> your card printer.
>
> 	Shawn.
>