March 2011
4 posts
The sound of a thermal printer →
Printing BitImages on a thermal printer
Printing an Image (jpg,bmp,png,gif, whatever) via the BitImaging ESC * command.
Oh man, that was a hard nut to crack. The documentation on what to do is very precise and has that “shame on you if you make a mistake. just read more carefully!” philosophy to it. You need to define how much data is coming through per Image. Fair enough, it’s Widht*Hight px. …No its not....
Thermal Printer driver
Well well. ESC POS command eh? Doesn’t seem that hard, does it?
I got my hands on a 3inch thermal printer from Fujitsu Siemens.
That would be the FTP-628DSL600 Series controller board and an FTP-638MCL101 Printer.
(http://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/MICRO/fcai/printers/ftp-628dsl600.pdf)
Apply Power:
Initially nothing worked. Took some time before I found out that you had to connect not...
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