With the Axess Gate system, it is still possible to produce tickets or vouchers that are NOT validated at the Axess gates (for example, rental tickets or consignment vouchers redeemed at a salespoint) by using standard ticket printers and layouts (Boca, Cognitive, Receipt, etc.). The primary purpose of the Axess Printer is to produce media for use at the Axess gates by encoding the RF chip or printing an Axess barcode for scanning at the gates.

However, if non-Axess related tickets or vouchers need to be produced and using a Boca, Cognitive or Receipt printer is not an option, a Text Merge or Shared TM layout (as opposed to an Axess Smart Printer layout) can be created and sent to the Axess printer. The content of the Text Merge or Shared TM layouts would include only the <CardMask> tags.

 

 

When using the Axess Printer as a simplified Text Merge printer, layouts must be configured using fields from the tmp_inv table, NOT the Printing table.

 

Additionally, the Axess Printer must be selected in Sales > Tools > Sales Pt Setup > Printing. This action is not required when using the Axess Printer to produce Axess Smart Printer layouts (layouts that encode the RF chip or produce a barcode that is read by the gate), but it is required when using the Axess Printer as a simplified Text Merge printer.

 

Note: Printing functions using the Axess Printer are limited! There are no IF conditions available, the only barcode font allowed is Interleaved 2 of 5, which cannot be encrypted, special characters such as the % sign cannot be used as they interfere with the printer commands (depending on the version of AXCoding installed), etc. Because of these limitations, Siriusware Inc. recommends keeping standard ticket printers (Boca, Cognitive, Receipt, etc.) available to create media that is exclusively used at Siriusware salespoints and using the Axess Printers for media that are used at the gates.