Multiple Copies & 2 Printers

@lewis-rowlands That mainly depends on how the plugin you use attaches its information to the order. In most cases, it will work although you may have to adjust our pugin if you require specific formatting of the output. I have tested the Delivery & Pickup Date Time for WooCommerce plugin and all seems to work ok.

These things do work a bit better with the new 2.0 plugin, but that doesn’t yet support printing to multiple devices, and it should print ok with the version you have.

@lewis-rowlands I’m not sure which version of the Star plugin you are using, but please install the version 2.0 sample, and enable the “Print additional order meta-data, such as custom fields.” setting, and possibly the “Include hidden fields” option too.

Version 2.0 can be downloaded from this forum thread.

The 1.1.x and earlier versions of the Star plugin don’t support printing additional fields from external plugins, so you will need one of the pre-release sample versions, of which I recommend the 2.0 beta.

@lewis-rowlands ah, of course, thanks for reminding me. No version 2.0 doesn’t yet implement that, I plan it as an official feature, but only after 2.0 is released and proven to be solid. 2.0 is intended to re-base the plugin code, so that I can more efficiently add new features and hopefully reduce the confusion of having so many sample and customised versions.

The multi-printer sample version that you have is based on 1.2 though, and should have a setting to enable printing additional order fields. Is that setting enabled for your site?

@lewis-rowlands No problem, I hope it’s working ok now.

Version 2.0 does improve the additional order information printing a bit, reformatting the key names (e.g. “delivery_date” will print as “Delivery Date”), ignoring hidden fields by default, and allowing you to remove fields that you don’t want. So keep an eye out for multi-printer support being added officially, but obviously please hold-off upgrading until then.

@lewis-rowlands
In the version of the plugin you are using, that would be in a function named star_cloudprnt_create_receipt_order_meta_data().

For example, to print a field named “delivery_date” with a double size font:

Change this part:

$item_data = $meta_data_item->get_data();
$printer->add_text_line($item_data["key"].": ".$item_data["value"]);

To something like (warning, untested code, just an example):

$item_data = $meta_data_item->get_data();
if ($item_data["key"] == "delivery_date"){
  $printer->set_font_magnification(2, 2);
  $printer->add_text_line($item_data["key"].": ".$item_data["value"]);
  $printer->set_font_magnification(1, 1);
} else {
  $printer->add_text_line($item_data["key"].": ".$item_data["value"]);
}