CPIO (Sigcap) Device configuration with ORPOS Client

Electronic Signature Capture Pads (CPIO)

Electronic signature capture pads or cpio device and software allow you to capture digital signatures to your point of sale system.  There are few famous vendor of CPIO such as verifone , topaz ,Honeywell , Symbol, ID Tech, etc Each vendor offers different types of devices now its choice of retailer which meets there business requirements.

The installation and configuration of these devices are almost same but there are few configuration changes which vary from one device to another. Here i am covering the configuration and installation process for verifone CPIO MX850/MX860/MX870 series which is same.

CPIO Configuration :-

Driver Installation :- very first you need to install the java if it is not on your POS client machine.if it verify the version it should be jre/jdk1.5_xxx or higher.

Verifone MX860/MX850/MX870

• Install USB Driver for your Verifone device.
• Flash ROM, MX OS,
• FormAgent/IBM EFT, and Retailer Screens to upload screen of CPIO .

Configure with USB Port :- First verify that USB port is open and have read only access only if not than first do it. After installing driver restart the register or your local machine connect CPIO device, right click on mycomputer than click on device manager it will display list of devices and ports, click on Ports and verify that there should be Mx860 device (COM9).

Now you need to configure this device to Oracle POS Client

ORACLE POS Client File Configurations Changes:-

JRE Related Changes -

Ibmcomm.dll

Instructions:              Paste file in folder                                                                                                 File:                            ibmcomm.dll                                                                                                           Directory Location:   C:\Program Files\JRE6\bin\ 

* (This Jre should be pointed by POS Client if there are more than one jre)

 

Javax.comm.properties

 Instructions:              Paste file in folder

 File:                            javax.comm.properties 

Directory Location:   C:\Program Files\JRE6\lib\

 * (This Jre should be pointed by POS Client if there are more than one jre)

Comm.jar

Instructions:              Paste file in folder                                                                                               File:                            comm.jar

Directory Location:   C:\Program Files\JRE6\lib\ext\

* (This Jre should be pointed by POS Client if there are more than one jre)

Jposdrivers

Instructions:              Drop folder and contents into directory structure 

Folder             :           jposdrivers or any name

Directory Location:   C:\Program Files\ or any user define location

* (These drivers entry should be inside Posenv.bat)

 

Pospal-verifone.jar

Instructions:              Paste file in folder if not

File:                            Pospal-verifone.jar

Directory Location:   ..\..\\360common\lib

Posdevices.xml

Instructions:              Replace file in folder

File:                            posdevices.xml

Directory Location:  ..\..\\pos\config\devices\

DeviceContext.xml
Instructions:              Replace file in folder
File:                            DeviceContext.xml
Directory Location:   ..\..\\pos\config\context\

Posenv.bat
Instructions:              Modify existing file
File:                            posenv.bat
Directory Location:   ..\..\pos\bin\

jpos.xml

Instructions:              Replace existing file
File:                             jpos.xml
Directory Location: ..\..\pos\bin\

Add the following to the Posenv.bat file inside ../../Client/pos/bin folder

#Set CPIO Related jars and Classes

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call C:\jposdrivers\jposenv.bat

SET CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%_360COMMON_PATH%\lib\pospal-common.jar;
SET CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%_360COMMON_PATH%\lib\pospal-verifone.jar;

Now test your CPIO configuration by launching ORPOS Client. :) :)