Questions tagged [thermal-printer]

A printer in which fine heated pins form characters on heat-sensitive paper

A thermal printer or electrothermal printer is a printer that uses heated pins to "burn" images onto heat-sensitive paper

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Spooling Thermal Shipping Label Data From Web Site

I need help trying to get thermal shipping label data from a Web site to a local Zebra printer. The data itself is just plain text but spooling it from a Web site seems to be very difficult for some reason. Does anyone have any experience with this?…
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Sending print instructions by command line to Star TSP143LAN thermal receipt printer

I'm attempting to send print instructions to a Star TSP100 (TSP143LAN model) thermal printer over an ethernet connection. I have no problem opening a raw data connection to the printer using it's LAN ip and port 9100, which is the port open for…
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PHP printing to local Thermal Printer, does not work without networkname

I've build a POS (Point of Sale) application in PHP that can print directly to a thermal printer. In most cases i run the application on a local webserver using WAMP. Part of the printing code is: $printer = "\\\\localhost\\TM-T88V"; // Open…
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How to test ticket before printing without physical printing using ESC_POS_PRINTER package on flutter

I'm using esc_pos_bluetooth in my flutter application , i don't wan't to spend a paper every time i test print a ticket , is there anyway to export the ticket a PDF or image to be able to check it without burning a paper ? here is my code : class…
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How to print Asian languages to a thermal printer from Flutter?

I am using the Flutter package esc_pos_printer 1.5.0 to print to a thermal printer. It all works fine if I print Latin characters. I have tried using the mutilingual code page but it always fails when trying to print Thai characters. I need to be…
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Flutter / Dart : convert image to 1 bit black and white

I'm writing a code to print an image using ESC * command (using an ESC POS thermal receipts printer). Basically, I'm trying to adapt Python Algorithm for Dart/Flutter. It sounds easy : open image -> grayscale -> invert colors -> convert to b&w 1…
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JavaBinder: Uncaught remote exception! (Exceptions are not yet supported across processes?

when i try to print paper with the aidl class the exception is thrown in my fragment class com.iposprinter.iposprinterservice E/JavaBinder: *** Uncaught remote exception! (Exceptions are not yet supported across…
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Write on thermal printer device in golang

I have a thermal printer(ESC/POS) already configured on my linux machine and using the terminal command (as root) I can make it print: echo "Hello!" > /dev/usb/lp0 However, doing the same procedure in golang nothing happens: package main import ( …
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Selecting character code table in ESC/POS command

I need print non-english chars on print receipts, use thermal POS receipt printer. Xprinter XP-58III thermal POS receipt printer suppport generic ESC/POS commands. As I know this should be done by setting character code table. In my case, target…
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Core Bluetooth - Issue in printing image on thermal printer (ESC/POS) from iOS (Objective C)

When I print images to a thermal printer over bluetooth (yes, after connecting to the printer as peripheral), the printing is slow and it prints blank lines all over the image. When I print same data packet to a wifi socket (to other printer, which…
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Close USB device connection

I am working with a thermal printer on the Android OS. I need to be able to close the connection to the connected USB device. Instantiate UsbManager and get USB device list mUsbManager = (UsbManager)…
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Python OpenCV cv2.VideoWriter Error

I'm trying to export the data coming from a thermal camera but I get an error message that says error: /build/opencv-ISmtkH/opencv-2.4.9.1+dfsg/modules/highgui/src/cap_ffmpeg.cpp:238: error: (-215) image->depth == 8 in function writeFrame Can…
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How to print a bill from browser on epson thermal printer

I want to print a html bill ( Generated through data coming from rest api ) on epson tharmal printer. I have tried normal print command using Ctrl + P and showing correct print preview but its printing empty page. Can anyone tell me how can i…
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What command to get the width of POS printer?

I have an application that prints to a thermal printer. I was testing with a 52mm printer which was what the client said would be used and this is what I based my formatting on. However, it turns out that there may be 80mm printers also. Is there…
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Printing to Thermal Printer (Without Margins & Padding)

I have a Star SP700 Cutter Thermal Printer. I am using Internet Explorer to Print Labels. It does what I need, however its always adding TOP and BOTTOM margins/padding for every single label. I did the Page Setup in IE and removed all margins,…
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