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Transactional Document Printing Overview
The information on this page should be useful in considering your printer and custom form options for printing transactional documents. This refers to tickets, receipts, checks and remittance advice, not to management or government reporting. Some sample custom forms are included, but all transactional documents can be customized to meet individual requirements.

Printer Types
Our system can be used with either point-of-sale receipt printers (thermal or impact) or with page printers (laser or ink-jet) or any combination of the two. The laser forms can be designed to print on a full 8.5 x 11 sheet or on a full sheet with a horizontal perforation (this produces two copies at a time, a half page each). The Westrex receipt printer uses 4.5 inch wide paper and the Epson receipt printer uses 3.125 inch wide paper. Thermal printers use continuous paper and print without any delay.

Localized printing
Any combination of printers is possible. Print options can be designated by workstation. Each workstation can be set up to print or not print any document, to print to any specific printer, any number of copies, in any specific format. This gives you great flexibility in triggering your transactional documents.

Buy Transaction print options
These are the buying transaction points that have print options, each of which can be turned on or off, by station:

1. Yard or inspection ticket: This is a document that prints when a ticket is placed on hold at the scale. An optional bar code on the yard ticket provides positive retrieval of the held ticket, providing the scale station is equipped with a bar code scanner. Laser print produces two copies (on one page). The customer is given both copies - the inspector can keep a copy and one copy can be returned to the scale house with deductions noted. See Laser yard ticket. Thermal printer produces one or more copies as desired. See Yard ticket.

2. Close ticket or Signature receipt: This is a document that prints when a ticket is closed at the scale. An optional bar code on the closed ticket provides rapid and positive retrieval by the cashier, providing the cashier station is equipped with a bar code scanner. Thermal printer produces a signature copy. See Signature receipt for the thermal printout and Laser purchase ticket for the laser printout.

3. Cashier receipt. This is a document that prints when a ticket is paid by the cashier, or at the scale. No bar code is necessary. The Thermal printer produces a customer copy. See Thermal receipt. Laser print produces a signature copy and a customer copy on a page. See Laser receipt.

4. Remittance Advice. This is a document that prints when multiple tickets are paid by a single check, usually industrial accounts. We have two examples of this for a laser printer. Summary style, one line for each ticket -see Remittance advice summary. Detail style, one line for each item, multiple lines for each ticket. -see Remittance advice detail.

5. Weight only ticket. This is a document that prints from the scale for proof of weight. Thermal printer, see Thermal Weight only. Laser printer, see Laser weight only.

Sell Transaction print options
These are the selling transaction points that have print options, each of which can be turned on or off, by station. Unlike Buy Transactions, these can also be overridden by the operator prior to printing:

1. Hold Shipment: This is a document that prints when a shipment is placed on hold, for loading. An optional bar code on the hold shipment provides positive retrieval of the held shipment, providing the scale station is equipped with a bar code scanner.

2. Delivery Ticket: This is a document that prints when a shipment is closed at the scale. This could be printed on either a Thermal or a Laser Printer. See Delivery Thermal or Delivery Laser.

3. Packing List. This is a document that can be printed after loading or when a shipment is closed at the scale. This would typically be printed on a laser printer. See Packing List.

4. Bill of Lading. This is a document that prints when a shipment is closed at the scale. This would normally be printed on a laser printer and multiple versions can be maintaned and used simultaneously. See Bill of Lading.

5. Invoice.. This is a document that prints whenever a shipment(s) are billed. Typically printed on a laser printer, can be printed in portrait or landscape orientation. See Portrait Invoice or Landscape Invoice.

Inventory Transaction print options
These are the transaction points in inventory processing that have print options, each of which can be turned on or off, by station. If the multiple printer option is chosen in the inventory module in local computer setup, then the operator will have the ability to enter print overrides.:

1. Hold Tag: This is a document that prints when a pack is placed on hold, for processing. An optional bar code on the hold shipment provides positive retrieval of the held pack.

2. Inventory Tag: This is a document that prints when a pack is closed at the scale. This is typically a Thermal, bar-coded label that can be put on to a tag or adhered to a box. See Inventory Tag.

Non-Localized printing
Checks - The system assumes that only one printer will be used for checks. Therefore, the specifics on check printing are set up once for all workstations. The system accommodate two different check printing formats, one for single ticket payments and one for multiple ticket payments. You may print a full page 'laser style' check with two stubs, either check on top or check in middle style checks.