Comments on: 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?

By: Kevin Aires

Kevin Aires — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:07:20 +0000

For those of us not quite so adept, would something like this suffice…. similar price too…

http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=178880&partner=uknews

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:35:14 +0000

Nice idea – something very appealing about a tiny Twitter-sized printer giving you your shopping list or whatever in the morning