Printer routing

In food service and restaurant environments, it is common to have more than one area in which food orders are prepared, each with their own printer for Prepare Slips. Orders may have their prepare slips routed to different printers for a variety of reasons:

• Certain items are prepared in a particular area;
• The prepare area depends on the Workstation at which the order was made;
• The prepare area depends on where the customer is seated.
• This routing also might not be fixed. Some prepare areas may only be used during busy times, or a printer may be offline.

Prepare Slips for items can be routed to printers in the Service Areas configured in the following places:

1. Item maintenance Default Prepare Area
2. Item maintenance Sold by Workstation Prepare Area
3. Workstation page Redirect prepare area
4. Service Area maintenance Redirect Area
5. Printer maintenance Redirect Printer.

Note: If printer routing is configured in multiple places, this list indicates the priority from lowest to highest.

See also:

• Setting up items for printer routing
• Setting up workstations for printer routing
• Setting up service areas for printer routing
• Setting up network printers for printer routing
• Printer routing from POS
• Printer routing based on check IDs