Print from Meditech to Ensemble directly
As per title, is it possible to print from meditech to an ensemble interface directly and has anyone done it?
I see meditech has a port and host option for setting up a printer, so I'm curious.
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Building an interface in Ensemble would require essentially emulating the printing protocol used by Meditech (lpr/lpd?). While that might be fun, I don't know that it's the best use of your time ![]()
Depending on your OS platform, it might be possible to route Meditech's printer output to files. This would be done by configuring a custom printer definition on either the Ensemble host or a host that Ensemble has file (ftp/sftp/cifs/etc.) access to. For Unix/Linux, this isn't terribly hard to do with lpd, and I imagine it can be done with CUPS as well.
I know Windows can function as an lpd server, but I'm not sure how you would get its output routed to a file.
Once the printed output is in file form, you could then create a file service in Ensemble to pick up and process it.