>VFP9, Windows XP or Windows 2K, SQL Server backend (or VFP tables)
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>A portable printer (handheld size) which communicates via USB. Printing no problem but it also contains a card swipe and I need to capture the card data via USB. Just starting the research on this so I'm looking for ideas in advance before I get started just in case anyone out there has experience with this already. I do have C+ code which supposedly will accomplish this but I haven't dived into it yet...
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>Anyone had any experience doing this and is it limited to drivers, utilities, sdks, or dlls from the printer manufacturer?

I have a USB check reader / card swiper and it came with software drivers that directed the input through the keyboard. I haven't used it for quite awhile but the input is handled the same as a simple in-line keyboard swiper, just that I had to install the drivers that came with the reader/swiper. I bought the device through eBay and downloaded the drivers from Magtek.
Scott