I was wondering if there was anyone out there using Thin Clients as their box office terminals. If there is, I'm wondering how your ticket printers are set up to work with them.
I'm not a technical person, so please go easy with me if you have answers
l I know is that we can currently print tickets from a Thin Client when the printer is local to a networked PC but, if we take away the PC there is no obvious solution for plugging the printer directly into the Thin Client itself. Or is there?
Thanks in advance.
Hi Paul -
We have thin clients in our box office and we have older BOCA serial printers - so we use a digiport box to convert them to ethernet and then install them on the terminal server that our box office uses. All our regular printers are already ethernet capable.
Something along these lines:
http://www.digi.com/products/serialservers/portservertsfamily/
It's worked happily for years - and as we get new BOCAs in we've been upgrading to ethernet ready, but those old serials keep chugging along!
HTH,
Heather