Now that you have the modules installed, it’s time to discuss configuration files. The Java modules for Lizzy™ support both USB and serial interfaces on the MMF cash drawers, and the modules you installed in the previous post came with USB support enabled. If you have a USB drawer and it’s configured as drawer 0, then your done. If however you have a serial drawer or you have a USB drawer that cannot be configured as drawer 0, you will have to download a different configuration file. Listed below are some configuration files, these file are configure to support various serial and USB ports. The downloaded file is called jpos.xml and you can just drag it to your windows directory, usually C:\Windows. When you copy it you should get warning asking if you want to overwrite an existing file, just click “Yes”. The download links below correspond to the port to which you cash drawer is connect or assigned; i.e. if your serial cash drawer is connected to com port 1 then click the “Com Port 1″ link, if your USB cash drawer is assigned to drawer 0 then click the “USB Drawer 0″ link.

Make sure that you right click the link you need and select Save Link As.

Serial Drawers:

• Com Port 1
• Com Port 2
• Com Port 3
• Com Port 4

USB Drawers:

• USB Drawer 0
• USB Drawer 1
• USB Drawer 2
• USB Drawer 3

In order to use these functions you will need to install latest version of Java. If you don’t have Java installed or are not sure that it’s up to date, please visit http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp, and click the “Verify Java Version” button. The Java site will let you know if you are ready to go, and guide you through installing Java if you are not. Go ahead and do the Java install now and come back to this post when you are done.

Now that Java is installed, let’s setup your label printer. If you have not installed your printer drivers, please install them now. If you do not have the drivers for you label printer, you can download them at http://www.zebra.com/id/zebra/na/en/index/drivers_downloads/drivers.html. Once you have the drivers installed we will need to rename the printer, to keep things uniform Lizzy expects the label printer to be named Zebra; to rename the printer, double click on the printers icon in Control Panel, then just right click on the printer and select rename and type Zebra.

If you don’t use a cash drawer that connects to your computer then your done. If you do use a computer connected cash drawer, you will need to install another module and configure Lizzy. First you will need to download a special driver from http://www.nizex.com/downloads/LizzyCashDrawerDriver.exe. Once the download completes, go ahead and run the installer. That is all that is need for now. I will be posting again soon with instructions on how to configure the cash drawer and Lizzy.

-Noel

The purpose of this article is to guide you through the process of installing the Mozilla Firefox web browser on Windows, Safari and Chrome will be separate articles.

The first thing you will need to do is click on the Mozilla Firefox link above, this will take you to a page with a “Download Firefox” button, go ahead and click the download button. At this point your browser will pop up a window asking what you would like to do with the file, click on the “Run” button. Depending on your version of Windows you may get a few security warnings, don’t worry, Firefox is safe to download and run.

Once the install file is fully downloaded on your computer, the Firefox setup wizard will appear on your screen. When the wizard appears, just click the “Next” button on the first page, this will take you to the second page of the wizard.

On the second page you will find two options “Standard” and “Custom”, you should select “Standard” and click the “Next” button. Now you are on the last page of the wizard, make sure that the “Launch Firefox now” option is selected and click the “Finish” button.

Now that we have completed the install, Firefox will run for the first time. During Firefox’s first run it is going to ask you a couple of questions, the first of which is “Do you want to make Firefox you’re default browser?”, we recommend that you do make it the default. If you do not want Firefox to be your default browser just select “No” and make sure that you check the “Don’t ask again” checkbox.

Now Firefox will ask if you would like to import your settings, password, cookies, and bookmarks from Internet Explorer, again we recommend that you let Firefox import everything by clicking next. The import wizard may take a minute or two depending on the speed of your connection, once it completes you will be presented with the Firefox browser and can begin using Lizzy™ or just surfing the internet.

Lastly we’d like for you to go to http://www.nizex.com in Firefox. This site uses flash and flash is not installed by default by Mozilla. When you get to the site you should see a bar across the top of the page asking if you’d like to install the flash plugin. Just click the Install link to allow Firefox to take care of this for you. Lizzy™ doesn’t use flash but our main website does.

Happy browsing,

-Noel