This openFrameworks addon let you connect Adafruit's Mini Thermal Printer to any of your openFrameworks projects.

Installing

Clone this repository into your openFrameworks/addons folder:

cd openFrameworks/addons
git clone https://github.com/patriciogonzalezvivo/ofxThermalPrinter

Setting up

On MacOS/Linux

You can use the printer directly from your computer using an USB to TTL Serial Cable

You need to research witch port open in the /dev/. Should look like this:

printer.open("/dev/tty.PL2303-00002014");

On RaspberryPi

Follow this instructions for the connection of the wires and GPIOs. (Also here is another nice tutorial)

By default the TXD and RXD pins are connected to a console. We need rid of this by editing this file:

sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt

Delete all references to 'ttyAMA0'. So you will have something like this:

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait

and will look like this:

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait

Then edit the /etc/inittab

sudo nano /etc/inittab 

and find the following line:

T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyAMA0 115200 vt100

Restart your RaspberryPi using:

sudo reboot

The in your code open the connection at:

printer.open("/dev/ttyAMA0");

Usage

Once the printer connection is open you can print text:

printer.println("hello world");

Dithered images:

printer.printImage(ofImage("image.jpg"));

And Barcodes:

printer.printBarcode("12345678", EAN8);

You will also find that there are lot's of ways to style your text;

printer.setAlign(LEFT);
printer.setAlign(MIDDLE);
printer.setAlign(RIGHT);

printer.setBold(true);

printer.setBold(false);

printer.setReverse(true);
printer.setReverse(false);

printer.setUnderline(true); printer.setUnderline(false);

Happy projects for you ;)

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