We use small little printers in our kitchens that print order tickets. I would like to intercept and capture the printer data and store it to a database. From the database, I would like to take the "printed data" and display it on a display screen instead of paper.
My question is - any idea of a technique to intercept the data (almost like a special printer driver) that would capture the incoming printer data and store it in a DB instead of printing it? Once I have the data in DB, I can format it however I want based on key words/fields that print to the printer. (At least in my mind...)
This technique makes the process transparent to the POS software, so I don't have to worry about writing proprietary interfaces and things of that nature but only focus on formatting the data I capture and display it.
These printers are shared on a...