Comments on: Microprinter

By: Franklin

Franklin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:05:00 +0000

Has anyone tried to hack printing calculators? They are much cheaper than the thermal printers.

http://www.canon.co.uk/for_home/product_finder/calculators/portable_printing/p1-dtsc/index.aspx

By: Making the Physical from the Digital « Random Hacks

Making the Physical from the Digital « Random Hacks — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:00:42 +0000

[...] or other retail outlet – and inspired by the work of Tom Taylor at Bookcamp/Papercamp09 and Roo Reynolds, I had already worked out how to print to it (I’ve added instructions to the microprinter [...]

By: Microprinter RSS Arduino Driven « Arduinian Tales

Microprinter RSS Arduino Driven « Arduinian Tales — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:38:48 +0000

[...] notification, using a repurposed receipt printer connected to the web”. Using this and the works of others as inspiration, I set about making my own Internet connected [...]

By: Microprinter Sparklines - Roo Reynolds

Microprinter Sparklines - Roo Reynolds — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:46:26 +0000

[...] quite a few of us to play with printers, I’ve been seeing what I can get mine to do. So far: barcodes were pretty quick. More recently, daily digests, twitter updates and even printing an entire a [...]

By: Roo

Roo — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:59:05 +0000

According to the manual (see the link from the microprinter wiki) it's user-selectable in hardware. The default, which worked for me, was 9600 baud.

By: oscar

oscar — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:38:57 +0000

Hello i just recovered a CBM printer . Assuming it works in serial mode what is the speed (4800 , 9600,….)

By: Roo Reynolds - More Microprinting

Roo Reynolds - More Microprinting — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:43:32 +0000

[...] been experimenting a bit more with the thermal receipt printer I bought recently, and I’m pleased to see the ‘microprinter’ craze taking [...]

By: robot porn » First Microprinter test

robot porn » First Microprinter test — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:39:35 +0000

[...] bought a MAX232 chip and 4 caps (1 µF) and soldered a serial adapter cable. I found Roo’s sketch at github and was able to get my “Hello world!” right away. Barcode [...]

By: Roo

Roo — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:39:24 +0000

Interesting. The wiki is probably the best place to document your findings (and I see you've already started to do so).

By: Philip

Philip — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:09:36 +0000

I just connected my BPM205 printer (by unknown-to-me Italian company APS) to my Arduino board via a MAX232 chip. Works well with your “Hello world” sketch. I posted a link to the data sheet in the wiki. So far all non ASCII characters are printed out wrong, obviously the Arduino IDE is sending bytes > 0×79 in 2-byte Unicode, so there should be a conversion function somewhere.

I’ll see what I can come up with. Is there talk about that somewhere else from the wiki and this comments?