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Add printing capability to any microcontroller project with just the innards of a thermal printer.
Thermal printers are also known as receipt printers, they're what you get when you go to the
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ATM or grocery store. Now you can embed a little printer of your own into a custom enclosure
of your choosing. This printer is ideal for interfacing with a microcontroller, you simply need a
3.3V-5V TTL serial output from your microcontroller to print text, barcodes, bitmap graphics,
even a QR code!
This is the super hackable version! All that's included is the guts of a thermal printer: the
motor/heater with a flex cable and a control board with a chip that will take your serial
commands and use them to drive the motor & heater. You also get a TTL cable and a 33' roll of
thermal paper. You'll likely want to design some sort of enclosure for it, especially since its a little
challenging to line up the paper so it feeds through straight. That said, because there's no
paper bay you can use as little or as much paper as you like, heck you can even feed in a
mobius strip!
To power it, supply the VH pin with 5-9VDC. 5V can be a little dim, 7.5V-9VDC will give you nice
dark printing.
We really like this printer because its easy to make Bold, underline, inverted text, variable line
spacing, left/center/right justification, barcodes in 11 standard formats with adjustable height, and
even custom bitmap graphics.
Of course, we wouldn't leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!" - We have a full tutorial
and matching Arduino library that demonstrates the following:
Printing with small, medium and large text
Bold and underline text
Inverted text
Variable line spacing
Left, center and right justification
Barcodes in the following standard formats: UPC A, UPC E, EAN13, EAN8, CODE39, I25,
CODABAR, CODE93, CODE128, CODE11 and MSI - with adjustable barcode height
Custom monochrome bitmap graphics!
How to include a QR code
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New Products 12/23/2015
Rated Power Voltage: 5-9VDC
Suggested Power Voltage: 7.4VDC
Max Current draw: 2.5A (spike)
TTL Serial Interface
Mini Thermal Receipt Printer
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