Creating a Menu System.

[Davva]

I want to put together a Menu system for a High School and wanted to ask for a little advice before I got started as I'm not sure that what I have in mind will actually be feasible.
There are 4 lines in the cafeteria each with a different menu.  These menus change every day.
The Cafe Manager has a PC in her office which is about 50' away from where the monitors will be situated.
Will it be possible to run all 4 monitors from her PC? (remembering that each monitor will be displaying something different)
Also, what kind of cable would be best to connect the monitors to the PC?  ( I don't think any will need to be longer than 50'.)

Or would wireless be an option?

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Davva

[Geek-9pm]

Long VGA cables get to be expensive.
But first, you need to decide what kind of device will let you run four different menus. You did say four menus, didn't you?

If you want four monitors with the same menu, it is a no banner. Just get a splitter that drives four monitors.
Here is just one place that offers the kind of stuff you wan t.
http://www.mycablemart.com/

[Davva]

Long VGA cables get to be expensive.
But first, you need to decide what kind of device will let you run four different menus. You did say four menus, didn't you?

If you want four monitors with the same menu, it is a no banner. Just get a splitter that drives four monitors.
Here is just one place that offers the kind of stuff you wan t.
http://www.mycablemart.com/

The display will be different on each monitor.
I don't know what kind of device I need.  That's why I asked the question.

[Geek-9pm]

OK. Then it is more than cables and splinters.

On method is to just buy some light boxes and print the Menus on regular paper and put them on the light boxes. I suppose that is what you already do. Places like McDonald's  do it that way as well as eateries the change the menu every day. Very economical.

The electron solution is to get four monitors of you choice and budget and a two or three four way graphics card. Matrox makes some  in the medium price range.
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/

I recall there is also an external device that can do four channels.
Still looking...

EDITS:
Here is a video...http://www.pcworld.com/article/157672/how_to_set_up_multiple_monitors.html

Here is an image of a typical low-cost dual head PCIe device. You could buy two of these if you machine has two PCIe slots available.
http://geek9pm.com/jpg/dual-head.jpg   <<- click to see image
The above is under $20 on ebay.
The high-end Matrox devices are too expensive for a school budget.