HaQue wrote:
I think the OP is either wanting to, or must, or advised by accountant, or whatever.. taking each fiscal year's MMC and archiving it with that years other paperwork. A good Idea since relying on 1 MMC for 7 years, or the same cash register to be "safe" for 7 years (getting stolen, damaged in fire, broken, etc etc) probably not the greatest idea. And having 1 years fiscal data together and separate is easier to manage.
But Im not in Italy, so YMMV.
I tend to focus on WHAT the person wants to do, not WHY. Though in cases where laws are involved, better to be smart about it as BlackST says.
Not that way : the MMC stores EACH LINE PRINTED on the receipt, it's just an electronic replacement for the journal paper roll on previous design ECR. If you want, in seconds and with few commands you can re-print whatever you want between two dates, two "fiscal end-of-the-day" numbers, etc. . Also, you need the machine you have written the "DGFE" in, so the archival purpose is pointless. The ECR inside its "FISCAL MEMORY" stores only the TOTAL REVENUE for that day and the date/time of the daily closure and a PROGRESSIVE FIGURE ("Gran Totale" = grand total) that is the amount of cash "registered". This data is NEVER resettable, the fiscal memory is bound to the machine serial number, potted and sealed to the ECR case, that is sealed with tamperproof seal - originally lead, depending on model, now a tamperproof seal signed and personalized with the government assigned "PIN" -let's call it this way- of the authorized tech who put the ECR in service / dealer. Moreover, you have to register BY HAND in a fiscal log at each end of the day the above mentioned total.
If you disconnect the fiscal memory, or tamper with the RTC or the RAM data the ECR design (to be compliant with the Italian government regulation) should halt every operation or eventually record it and stop. It is impossible, for example, to revert the clock and close day 100 then next record is let's say 90 : next MUST be day 101.
Also it is impossible to perform a "cold start" of the ECR without opening it. In any case, even the number of "RESETs" is limited an hard encoded in fiscal memory : after this limit is reached, the ECR is no longer functional. Same if the fiscal memory fails - you either have to send to factory that will assign a new serial no. or simply replace the entire ECR (it happens....).
The reason for all this is fraud prevention countermeasures that do exist for other things in many other systems AND countries.
Consequences : as these MMCs are "custom" for that application, they cost much more than a simple, stupid MMC.
What people would like : make their own and save money. Openly said, it seems ......
P.S. despite some nostalgia mood as I worked also in the field more than a decade ago between the Euro changeover , reading some things give me a sort of itch.... don't know why....
