Print X and Y reports to my laser printer instead of the thermal o

Apr 24, 2007 9 Replies

I have one register currently, and I am running the X&Y reports daily, but its getting to the point that they are wasting a lot of paper! I dont do a large number of sales daily, so sometimes my X&Z reports are longer and more paper than the daily sales!


I have a laser printer in the back room that I want to use to print the reports at the end of the day.



I think I can setup that printer in RMS to be a second printer, but then in the POS it will keep asking me to which printer I would like to print to. That can get annoying. Is there any way around that?



I have other PC's, but when I do the X&Z report I should ideally be in front of the POS that I am closing and opening and not have to bring another PC or laptop to print from.



There should be an option to at least print those end of the day reports to a normal sized printer instead of the POS thermal printer.



Any advice or suggestions on what I can do?


One paper saver is to NOT PRINT a X report. Instruct the cashier to turn off the printer (Ctrl-F9), then do an X. Use the journal viewer to verify totals, then print Z report.

One problem - when they forget to turn the printer back on before running the Z, and they will forget, you have to go into Manager to view the journal and find the Z.

You can create a macro to disable printer, print x, and enable printer. Works great.

You can also modify the Z report to just give you the info you need. You should be able to search for this on the forum. It has been talked about many times before. Alternatively, don't print it on paper at all. Who needs paper these days?

Well guy's, I also keep all of the X&Z reports in a cabinet in the back sorted by month.

Everyday that the X&Z reports get printed I punch them and leave them organized in a folder. Receipt paper is not the greatest thing to keep around for, since it gets wrinkled, loses its text(turns white), and just not too good looking.

A nice looking X&Z report on a normal 8.5x11 sheet would be sooo much nicer and cleaner to store away, as well as go back and look to later if I need to.

It's available on CustomerSource and has been posted on this board before. Did you search for it?

After you close your registers by running a Z report, go to Manager, Utilities, Crystal Reports, Register Analysis. Click Generate. That is your end of day report. If you want to see figures for each register batch enable Show Individual Batches on the Details tab before you click Generate. If you want to run the report for another date choose Date Closed on the Criteria tab. X/Z reports are not for keeping IMO. Toss the X for sure. Keep the Z for your bank deposit, then toss the Z. Actually we shred them.

Mark S.

"John" wrote:

Mark,

But by runn> After you close your registers by running a Z report, go to Manager,

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