Resetting Papercut's com port with ITC 5400 Coinop

 

Over the last few months I've been having an issue with a papercut print release system.  What had been happening is over a few days of running the papercut software would no longer read the coin op.  (This is happening even with rebooting the system).  Now a major caveat here is the print release system is running on a machine with VPRO which automatically removes the use of one com port typically Com 3.  Before you start your com port for Vpro should be something else so I've set the com port for VPro to COM 14.  

Inside the door of the coinop is a circuit board with 4 buttons: menu, enter, up, down.

To begin to modify the settings on the coinop you need to unlock the back of the coinop and run the machine in bypass mode.

Step 1 - Unlock the device, and leave the back open

Step 2 - Put the machine in bypass mode

Step 3 - Pressing the menu button go to Print Setup Mode

Step 4 - Go to Print Type

Step 5 - using the up or down button go to print protocol 1

Step 6 - Setup the com port

Step 7 - You get an option of COM1 or USB select Com 1

Step 8 - you will then be asked if you want to disable relay print.  Select No.

Step 9 - Reboot the coinop.  Once rebooted so long as the com cable on the computer is set to COM1 then you should be getting coin info from the Coinop.

Creating a mobile friendly version of Papercut User Web Print

 Papercut has a great and easy to use web interface to printing, however it isn't mobile responsive.  This post will make the papercut web interface mostly mobile responsive and I say mostly because there is some tweaking that can be done to make the web version better then what I have below.  This will give you a good start.  This is for a specific use case, in this case the organization is only concerned with printing, and does not archive or want the user to have access to the recent print jobs or summary.

Papercut's User Web Print interface is typically like this.

What the CSS changes I have put down below will change the look from that to this.

You will note the larger text , and buttons.  I have done away with the sidebar; making this much more visible on mobile.

Here is the CSS to make papercut user web print mostly web responsive.

The key is adding "@media (pointer:none), (pointer:coarse) {" to the user-refresh.css located typically in the $Drive\Program Files\PaperCut MF\server\webapp-52403\css\user-refresh.css

The following css will give you a good start on making the papercut web client much more accessible to the user.

@media (pointer:none), (pointer:coarse) {

#main{

margin-left:0px !important;

}

#header{

height:150px !important;

}

#header-logo{

height: 150px !important;

}

#header-logo img{

height: 150px !important;

}

#container:before{

display:none !important;

width:0px !important;

}

h1{

font-size: 48pt !important;

}

h2{

font-size:42pt !important;

}

.filter{

display: none !important;

}

.web-print-intro #web-print-intro-msg{

font-size: 36pt !important;

}

a.btn{

font-size:36pt !important;

margin-left:auto;

margin-right:auto;

padding:36px;

}

table.results th {

    height: auto;

    text-align: left;

    height: 0;

    padding: 8px 1rem;

    text-transform: uppercase;

    letter-spacing: .05em;

    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);

    background: #293e50;

    font-size: 14pt;

    line-height: 1;

    font-weight: normal;

    white-space: nowrap !important;

    margin:0px;

    padding: 0px;

}

table.results th, table.results td{

font-size: 21pt !important;

margin:0px;

padding:0px;

}

input[type=checkbox], input[type=radio]{

background-color: #293e50 !important;

margin:4px;

padding:16px;

}

label{

overflow: hidden;

white-space: nowrap;

text-indent: -15px;

width:400px;

}

.wizard-heading{

font-size: 24pt;

}

.no-web-print-jobs{

font-size:18pt;

}

.wizard{

font-size:14pt;

}

.buttons{

font-size:24pt;

padding:12px;

margin-left:auto;

}

.wizard div.buttons input{

font-size:18pt !important;

padding:16px !important;

}

.form{

font-size:18pt !important;

padding:16px !important;

}

.form input{

font-size:18pt !important;

padding:16px !important;

}

td.fields{

font-size:18pt !important;

padding:16px !important;

}

.dropzone-div{

font-size:18pt !important;

padding:16px !important;

}

#dropzone-table{

font-size:18pt !important;

padding:16px !important;

}

#file-format-details{

font-size:12pt !important;

}

#dropzone-button{

font-size:18pt !important;

padding:16px !important;

}

#upload-from.dz-clickable{

font-size:16pt !important;

padding:16px !important;

}

th.desc{

padding:0px !important;

}

.dz-filename{

font-size:16pt !important;

}

.dz-size{

font-size:16pt !important;

}

.dropzone .dz-preview .dz-details img, .dropzone-previews .dz-preview .dz-details img{

width:200px !important;

height: 200px !important;

}

td{

font-size:16pt !important;

}

.smallText, .help-block {

    font-size: 18pt !important;

    color: #8e959e !important;

    margin: 0 !important;

}

#footer{

position: absolute !important;

}

}

Here are some screenshots with the end result.