Streamlining Receipt and Data Printing with Smart Printer Interfaces

Introduction

Printing receipts and data in retail and financial sectors is a critical component of daily business operations. However, managing multiple printers, data streams, and interfaces can often lead to inefficiencies, delays, and confusion in busy environments like retail checkouts, banking, or service centers. Our patented printer interface offers an intelligent, seamless solution for redirecting data and receipts to the appropriate printers in real-time, ensuring that businesses maintain speed, accuracy, and convenience in their operations. This technology enhances efficiency, reduces errors, and streamlines the process of handling multiple print tasks, benefiting businesses and customers alike.

Challenges with Traditional Printing Systems

In environments where high-volume transactions occur daily, such as retail stores, restaurants, or financial institutions, managing printing systems effectively is crucial. Traditionally, businesses face challenges such as misdirected prints, delays in receipt generation, or the inability to handle large data outputs efficiently. When systems are unable to handle multiple printers or print jobs simultaneously, this can lead to operational slowdowns, frustrated customers, and unnecessary costs.

As businesses look for ways to enhance customer experience and improve back-end operations, the need for a more intuitive and responsive printing interface becomes clear. A solution that can simplify the management of data and receipt printing without introducing complex, costly infrastructure is essential for maintaining smooth workflows and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Smart Printing for Seamless Data and Receipt Management

Our patented printer interface provides an advanced solution for managing and redirecting data and receipts to printers with precision and ease. Designed for point-of-sale systems and other business operations that rely heavily on printed documentation, this technology enables businesses to control where and when receipts or data are printed, ensuring that each document reaches the right printer at the right time. By intelligently managing multiple print jobs and data streams, this interface eliminates common issues such as misrouted prints, delays, or printer errors.

Whether handling receipts for financial transactions, retail purchases, or service documentation, the system provides an easy-to-use solution for ensuring that documents are printed accurately and efficiently. It integrates seamlessly into existing POS systems and can be adapted for a range of industries that require fast, reliable printing at scale. This smart interface improves both front-end customer interactions and back-end office management, offering greater control over business operations.

Key Benefits

  • Efficient Print Management: Redirects data and receipts to the appropriate printers automatically, reducing errors and improving speed.
  • Seamless Integration: Easily integrates into existing point-of-sale and business systems without disrupting operations.
  • Improved Customer Experience: Ensures receipts and transaction documents are printed promptly and accurately, enhancing customer satisfaction.
  • Versatile Applications: Applicable across retail, financial services, hospitality, and other industries requiring high-volume printing.

A Smarter Way to Manage Printing in Business Operations

Licensing this printer interface technology provides businesses in retail, financial services, and beyond with a powerful tool to streamline receipt and data printing. By simplifying print management and reducing inefficiencies, this solution helps businesses maintain operational fluidity while delivering a better customer experience.

Previous printers were designed to print a paper copy of data and/or receipts which causes a disconnect with modem day data manipulation. This printer interface can print data to and receive data from the internet and hand held devices which will open up extremely fast data exchange and data manipulation for consumers, cities, states and the federal government without the expense of having to purchase complete new systems. By simply changing out an old printer we can connect all old computer systems with modem day systems that now have the ability to manipulate data automatically.

What is claimed is:

1. A printout redirection system, requiring no alteration of the printout generating device, comprising:

a point-of-sale (POS) device, generating a receipt printout information, wherein the receipt printout information is configured by the POS to be sent for printout to an attachable printer;
a connector with a first side connected to a printout output of the POS device and a second side configured to connect to an attachable printer, the connector conveying the printout information;

a printout redirector, comprising:

a receiver connected to the connector’s second side and receiving the receipt printout information from the POS device;
a wireless transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit the received receipt printout information to a target-destination connected to an Internet network;
wherein receipt printout information from the POS device intended for the attachable printer can be wirelessly transmitted to the Internet network without requiring a modification to the POS device.
2. The printout redirection system of claim 1, wherein the Internet network-connected device is at least one of a portable device, a cell phone, a card reader, and a computer.
3. The printout redirection system of claim 1, wherein the target-destination information is originated from a software program resident on the Internet network-connected device.
4. The printout redirection system of claim 1, wherein the receipt printout information is in a digital format, adapted for one or more of sorting, searching, or formatting.
5. The printout redirection system of claim 1, wherein the receipt printout information contains information for at least one of a rebate, ticket, invoice, personnel information, warranty, product information, or image relating to a transaction by the POS.
6. The printout redirection system of claim 1, wherein the receipt printout information is adapted for use in at least one of a report, tax document, and accounting.
7. The printout redirection system of claim 1, wherein the receipt printout information is communicated to and from the printout redirector via-Bluetooth.
8. The printout redirection system of claim 1, further comprising an electronic receipt bank connected to the Internet, wherein the receipt printout information is deposited to the receipt bank.
9. The printout redirection system of claim 1, wherein the receipt printout information is printable to on a printer physically connected to the print redirector or wirelessly connected to the Internet network.
10. The printout redirection system of claim 1, wherein the POS is located in a mode of transportation and location information is tabulated with the receipt printout information.
11. The printout redirection system of claim 1, further comprising a financial service or bank connected to the Internet network, wherein the receipt printout information includes an amount of refund or money due to a transacting party, the amount being transmitted to the financial service or bank.
12. The printout redirection system of claim 1, wherein the receipt printout information is in an encrypted form prior to transmission or decrypted form after receipt.
13. The printout redirection system of claim 1, wherein the print redirector is utilized in an existing credit or transaction processing system.
14. The printout redirection system of claim 1, wherein the receipt printout information is forwarded to a recipient device connected to at least one of the Internet network and a cell phone network.

15. The printout redirection system of claim 1, further comprising:

at least one of a time stamp, date, activity location, activity code, and merchant number is in the receipt printout information; and
a servicing computer connected to the Internet network, wherein the serving computer validates the receipt printout information as authentic.
16. The printout redirection system of claim 1, further comprising a wireless receiver configured to receive the target-destination information from the Internet network-connected device.
17. The printout redirection system of claim 1, wherein the receipt printout information contains at least one of a loyalty information, and bar code coupon.
18. The printout redirection system of claim 14, wherein the receipt printout information is forwarded in at least one of an email, text message, and facsimile format.

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Title

Printer interface for redirecting data and/or receipts to a printer

Inventor(s)

Mary Lynn Sherwood, Bruce Lawrence Hall

Assignee(s)

Individual

Patent #

10481840

Patent Date

November 19, 2019

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