Check-in Hardware Requirements

The purpose of this page is to give the system installer a guide on the steps required to ensure the check-in environment is appropriate.

Hardware requirements

To operate your Check-in, you will need to obtain the following:

A label server

The label server is a Windows computer that will provide your local check-in terminals access to the label printers. This computer is owned and managed by you.

The software we use is developed by infoodle and is downloadable from the Install and Set up Label Server page.

This computer must be able to successfully print to the label printers without any infoodle software being installed. Our software simply routes requests to print labels to the computer's own printing system.

A check-in device

In order for the visitors to perform the check-in they will need access to a device that has a web browser. For example, laptops, desktops, iPads, Android tablets and phones.

These devices need to be on the same wifi network as the check-in label server.

You can have as many of these devices as is required in order to ensure sufficient throughput of your visitors. As an example, 120 people can be checked in over a 15 minute period on 4 devices.

Note

Android devices don't directly support printing. Subsequently infoodle uses the browser's print function when printing the check-in report which lists everyone who has checked in. You need to install a printing app, for example, Cloud Print.

Once installed you can either print directly from the browser's menu, or select Share... from the browser's menu and choose Cloud Print (or equivalent).

Note - that this does not affect the label printing - this is managed by infoodle.

Label printer

Since we use the computers own printing system infoodle Check-in can print to any printer that your label server can print to. We currently recommend the following label printers:

Brother QL810W (or Brother QL-720NW is an older version)

This device is wireless and, once configured, connects to the network itself.