[HN Gopher] I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
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I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
Author : horsellama
Score : 562 points
Date : 2022-03-25 15:49 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| fractalf wrote:
| Very kool! Good job :)
| mirchiseth wrote:
| imagine denial of paper attack
| jddil wrote:
| Fantastic idea, I hope we see a resurgence in this type of
| tactile, physical tech.
|
| I also wish there was a metal spike to put closed issues on as
| mentioned in another comment, lol. Just makes sense.
| Felger wrote:
| Printing GitHub issues on receipt ? Are you trying to compete
| with the FED's money printing rate ?
| mottiden wrote:
| This is so good. I love it!
| tevon wrote:
| This is awesome, I'd add a QR code with the link to the bottom
| (if possible on printer).
|
| Then could scan with your phone to bring the issue up for
| immediate triage. I imagine lots of issues can be closed right
| away (or very quickly).
| Darkphibre wrote:
| Heh, that's in the article under _Wrapping up and next steps_
|
| > For the tickets themselves, a QR code could be added to link
| directly to the issue on GitHub. You could also add in more
| details from the issue itself like tags and severity.
| andix wrote:
| The printers unusually can create barcodes and some of them
| also QR codes.
|
| But it is also possible to print images. You can also configure
| them as standard printers and print via any common printing
| system (cups, windows spooler, ...)
| dev_tty01 wrote:
| If it could be closed right away, wouldn't you do that before
| you print it out? Perhaps I'm a luddite, but wouldn't typing
| the ticket number into a box almost certainly be faster than
| getting your phone out, turning it on and scanning the code?
| iamjackg wrote:
| I bought all the equipment to do something like this a while ago,
| and wanted to set up a script that would print a daily briefing
| every morning. Then I realized that I would basically be
| generating tons of garbage for an absolutely frivolous purpose,
| so I never did it.
|
| I did end up reusing the printer to turn it into a Game Boy
| Printer, though! ...And I make sure to only print pictures I plan
| on keeping. ;)
|
| https://github.com/iamjackg/esp32-phomemo-gameboy-printer
| briandoll wrote:
| Very cool, reminded me of one of our fist winners of the first
| GitHub Data Challenge, where someone made a daily newspaper out
| of their GitHub feed using a thermal printer:
| https://github.com/alx/Le-Github via
| https://github.blog/2012-06-12-github-data-challenge-winners...
| chagaif wrote:
| I'd love to have something like this
| notimpotent wrote:
| Your Side Projects link to Github in the first sentence is 404.
| aschmelyun wrote:
| Thanks for letting me know, a fix for that is going out now!
| PaulHoule wrote:
| I thought about doing something like this so I could turn the
| tickets I work on into paper tickets but never quite got around
| to it.
|
| (I did buy a cheap receipt printer on eBay though and managed to
| burn it out in the first 10 minutes of printing. ProTip: a
| receipt printer with the width specified in inches is likely to
| be a quality printer by a reputable manufacturer, one specified
| in mm is likely to be a piece of junk from China.)
|
| Adding a QR code would help a lot in terms of making a cyber-
| physical object where you could close the ticket by pointing at
| it...
| jonpalmisc wrote:
| What's the reason behind the inches vs millimeters distinction?
| I understand it's just a heuristic but I don't get what the
| underlying cause is.
| w0m wrote:
| english == Made in America; Quality. metric == Chinese; Piece
| of crap
|
| is the intention I think. Not a fair distinction imho, but to
| each their own.
| PaulHoule wrote:
| I am buying these off eBay in the United States. English
| units might mean "culturally sensitive" which is a tracer
| for quality.
|
| A Zebra or NCR sold in the US will be marketed with English
| units, the same printer is probably marketed in the E.U.
| with metric units.
|
| The people selling the off brand printer might not know or
| could care less what units are used in the area it is being
| marketed in, which is a tracer for them not caring about
| any other quality attributes of the product.
| PaulHoule wrote:
| I've had a few crap Chinese receipt printers. I do
| appreciate that they print Chinese characters because I
| print a lot of anime fan art and art reproductions of 19th
| century Japanese prints and like to put as much kanji as I
| can on the back sides. On the other hand other than some
| official Pokemon art that renders beautifully on thermal
| printers because it was thought through like the Ansel
| Adams Zone System
|
| https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/2477177
|
| I do almost all this work with inkjet printers and
| rasterize it all myself.
|
| (I wrote my own text rendering engine for vertical CJK
| text, not because I was unhappy with the results I got
| printing characters with uniformly square metrics but
| because I wanted western characters and dingbats I
| introduced to look good. Sooner or later I'll probably
| write my own text rendering engine for horizontal roman
| text because I haven't met a kerning engine I really like
| and because there are many typographical details like
| ordinals (e.g. 5k) that I'd like to have better control
| of.)
| fmakunbound wrote:
| I once tried a thermal paper print experiment for completed
| pomodoros to see if sense of accomplishment was improved with
| something physical.
| [deleted]
| daneel_w wrote:
| I don't mean to critique the creation, but nobody would bat an
| eye at an identical solution printing the issues on a normal A4
| desktop printer. The lyrical praise and the raving reviews
| entirely hinge on the gimmicky and "comic" detail of a receipt
| printer being used instead. Is the hacker community really this
| under-stimulated?
| jddil wrote:
| The UX between a A4 desktop printer and a receipt printer is
| different, this is almost in the realm of a practical solution
| to a real tech problem (almost).
|
| Also, not speaking for others but I enjoyed it because it's a
| great example of the hacker mindset and their willingness to
| write a blogpost to share it with others made my day slightly
| better.
| phphphphp wrote:
| If you look close enough at anything (and everything) you can
| reduce it in the same way. The sum of human experience is just
| meaningless stimulation: if receipt paper is the thing that
| stimulates us today, so be it, it's no less valid than watching
| a rocket zoom into space. What is it to be human if not to
| enjoy whimsy?
| amelius wrote:
| Huh? A rocket sending a telescope into space is much greater
| news than a receipt printer connected to yet another data
| source.
| jbverschoor wrote:
| And then you hang it on your kanban board ;-)
| nsenifty wrote:
| Bonus: Old stale issues automatically fade away!
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Throw a QR code on there with a link to the issue to close the
| loop!
| leovander wrote:
| They mention that in the post at the end.
| JackMcMack wrote:
| A long time ago we tried to do something similar with a jira
| kanban board. We were using thermal printer paper with a
| repositional adhesive, like post-it notes.
|
| You need a printer with integrated cutter, the Epson TM-88 used
| here will work. You can directly print and stick. For our use
| case the 80mm width was a tad too small. If you're printing
| "landscape" on the thermal printer, the text is not big enough to
| fit a ticket title in a reasonably sized sticky note. It works,
| but it's not really readable from more than a few meters.
|
| The paper is from MaxStick (no affiliation). Depending on your
| use case, pick a glue pattern without full coverage (e.g. center
| adhesive), so you can easily move the paper without having to pry
| your fingernails under an edge.
|
| https://maxstick.com/
|
| https://github.com/wannessels/stickyprint
| tpict wrote:
| Building one of these is probably easier than wrangling the
| GitHub notifications settings into having a meaningful
| signal:noise
| aschmelyun wrote:
| Literally why I built this in the first place. Work is one
| thing, but my side project issue notifications kind of just got
| lost in the mix of noise coming through my email, and I'd
| forget to check them out.
| gotaquestion wrote:
| This is a really funny read for a Friday morning.
|
| It should play an MP3 of a line cook in a busy diner shouting,
| "Order up!", and then he can stick it on a rotating order wheel
| hanging above his desk.
|
| EDIT: One of these things:
| https://www.webstaurantstore.com/choice-stainless-steel-orde...
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| I'm sure the diner frycook would love to be able to send back
| every burger order he got with "Closed; won't fix".
| RankingMember wrote:
| "Not a bug...a hair"
| jasonwatkinspdx wrote:
| A friend shared this, and my response then was that the author
| should go tell his plan to a line cook and see what response he
| gets :P
|
| For those who haven't been around kitchen culture, it's common
| to joke about having nightmares about the sound of the ticket
| printer.
| nescioquid wrote:
| Is the sound objectionable or do you mean that it triggers a
| conditioned response?
| otterley wrote:
| Have you been inside a Domino's franchise when they get a new
| order? Their order systems play a happy tune.
| anamexis wrote:
| I hope he at least has one of those receipt spikes to stick it
| on when the issue is closed.
| aschmelyun wrote:
| I've already been looking at kitchen rails to hang above my
| desk lol
|
| https://www.amazon.com/Winco-Order-Rack-
| Aluminium-24/dp/B01E...
| pottertheotter wrote:
| Those things always drive me crazy. Something about having a
| metal spike sticking up from a counter.
|
| Although I've always had problems with sharp corners. For
| instance, if I'm reading in a chair and there's a small table
| next to me and the corner is sharp, I can't handle it and
| have to cover it (like set a book so it's hanging over the
| edge). It bugs my eyes for some reason. Same if I'm watching
| TV and there's furniture with sharp corners near the TV.
|
| I really hate that this affects me so much, so mostly sharing
| in case someone else deals with this or knows what's going
| on.
| kqr wrote:
| I had a friend in elementary school who suffered from the
| same thing. He never mentioned table corners, but he
| definitely requested that you don't hold pencils with the
| pointy bit up if you sit next to him.
|
| Sounds like it sucks. Take care of yourself!
| teeray wrote:
| I hope he has a metal spike to spear them all onto when he's
| closed them
| ryatkins wrote:
| Yeah PHP! You rock!
| TazeTSchnitzel wrote:
| Fun fact: code page 437 didn't die with DOS. It's still what
| receipt printers default to, judging by all the mojibake
| variations on "Tack for besoket, valkommen ater!" I've seen in
| daily life in Sweden.
| incanus77 wrote:
| These printers are fun. I got one from a hardware swap meet a few
| years back and used the same software to work it into a public
| art project I did a bit later. You could listen to or record your
| own "dream" story to a kiosk, and upon leaving one, you'd get a
| paper receipt. It was a fun, tangible interaction that gave a bit
| of permanence to something purely audio.
|
| https://justinmiller.io/services/dreamdial1.jpg
| paulmd wrote:
| "instant photo" printers are another fun tangible thing like
| that! Polaroid nailed it way back when, everyone loves
| something instant and tangible like that.
|
| You can get Fuji printers which use Instax film, or Canon makes
| a similar one they call the Selphy, or there's the Zink printer
| line as well.
| ianbicking wrote:
| Kind of tangential, but I think it could be a lot of fun to make
| a "boardgame" computer that has a thermal printer, some number
| displays, and some buttons. It wouldn't try to run the whole
| game, but would only assist. It could print out scoresheets or
| special tokens, roll dice, keep track of a few numbers, that sort
| of thing. Maybe a barcode/QR scanner so you could round trip,
| like scan a printout and then choose an option as described on
| that printout.
|
| The printer in particular could open up all kinds of generative
| and variable interactions or play pieces in a game while still
| preserving the physical tracking of the game. Maybe with some
| plastic holders you could even turn the printouts into rough
| cards...
| kuang_eleven wrote:
| Although not a tangible as what you suggest, there already is a
| trend in modern board gaming to have app-assisted games,
| usually to manage hidden state and real-time elements, and
| primarily in cooperative games. A couple examples are Space
| Alert, X-COM and Mansions of Madness 2e.
| knute wrote:
| When I was DMing a D&D campaign I had an idea for using a
| receipt printer to print a "token" that would represent items
| that the players acquired and they could keep it or pass it
| around or turn it back in after it was used or destroyed.
| trynewideas wrote:
| You weren't alone: https://github.com/BigJk/snd
| scottlamb wrote:
| This is a fun idea, but I've read thermal paper is surprisingly
| nasty stuff. [Edit: unless it's advertised as "phenol-free".]
| It's not just paper. It contains plastics (BPA or BPS) that you
| absorb through your skin when handling it. I'd avoid working with
| receipts at my desk all day. (I'd also avoid being a grocery
| store cashier...)
|
| https://www.pca.state.mn.us/green-chemistry/bpa-thermal-pape...
| darkhorse222 wrote:
| that explains why it tastes so bad
| cridenour wrote:
| There's a great I Think You Should Leave skit about why it
| might taste so bad.
| juancb wrote:
| How do you know how it tastes?
| giaour wrote:
| What do you do with your receipts? If they weren't meant to
| be edible, you wouldn't get a complimentary one with every
| restaurant meal.
| cinntaile wrote:
| He was joking. But maybe you are too?
| samstave wrote:
| SUPER NASTY
|
| its teflon and every single thermal receipt is poison!
| cinntaile wrote:
| Why do they use thermal printing for receipts? Is it just
| cheaper because you don't have ink that runs out? Less moving
| parts so less maintenance?
| tyingq wrote:
| No trying to get cashiers to refill ink properly is, I
| assume, the main business benefit. The only thing they refill
| is paper, which should be dead simple on a decent thermal
| printer.
| otterley wrote:
| That, and also speed. Thermal printing is _fast_ compared to
| the alternatives.
| postalrat wrote:
| Fast, reliable, inexpensive, relatively quiet. Hard to beat.
| drewzero1 wrote:
| Pros: faster, quieter, better quality, don't need to know how
| to load ribbon when it runs out.
|
| Cons: fancy paper, fades over time, destroyed by even minor
| heat.
|
| We switched from dot matrix receipts to thermal a few years
| ago and there were several very vocal complaints about the
| relative impermanence of a thermal receipt.
| RankingMember wrote:
| As someone who once worked a job in retail where we printed
| receipts on dot matrix printers on triplicate paper, we
| longed for thermal printing at the time. Noise, speed, and
| jams were a common occurrence.
| aschmelyun wrote:
| Yeah, the machine came with a few spools of BPA-free paper, but
| that just means there's a less-tested alternative like some of
| the responses are saying. I was a cashier for 4 years though,
| so this is probably a drop in the bucket for what's already in
| my system.
| hh3k0 wrote:
| > Yeah, the machine came with a few spools of BPA-free paper
| [...]
|
| Or so they said on AliExpress.
| turtlebits wrote:
| BPA free thermal paper has been around for a while. A few years
| ago, I bought a box of it for a similar project (JIRA events ->
| Receipt printer)
| scottlamb wrote:
| I think "BPA free" means "BPS". I think that's less-studied
| but not necessarily better. [Edit: but "phenol-free" is
| likely actually safe, thanks for pointing that out. I should
| read my own link fully!]
| outworlder wrote:
| The article linked in the comment says this:
|
| "If you must give paper receipts, look for "phenol-free"
| paper, which is safer for human health and has fewer
| environmental effects. Three types that do not contain BPA
| or BPS and are competitively priced contain either ascorbic
| acid (vitamin C), urea-based Pergafast 201, or a technology
| without developers, Blue4est. The latter uses a coating
| that reveals an underlying dark layer when heat is
| applied."
| flotzam wrote:
| Yeah they're "BPA free" in roughly the same sense that
| 1P-LSD is "LSD free"
|
| Those blue receipt papers seem okay though:
| https://www.koehlerpaper.com/en/products/Thermal-
| paper/Blue4...
| doublepg23 wrote:
| As a retail worker of 6 yrs I'm raising my eye at this...
| mwcremer wrote:
| no child labor laws where you live?
| badrabbit wrote:
| We would have a lot of cancer victims who happen to be cashiers
| in that case?
| CameronNemo wrote:
| I found this in two minutes:
| https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29778011/
| otterley wrote:
| Insulin resistance isn't cancer (though I admit it's still
| troubling).
| CameronNemo wrote:
| If you spend more than two minutes looking into it you
| might find a link to cancer. I don't know. That is just
| the most concerning research I found in the short time I
| allotted to the task.
| scottlamb wrote:
| My threshold for "nasty" isn't "carcinogen". Not sure how
| that goalpost got moved, but let's move it back. The link
| I posted says this:
|
| > The chemicals have been shown to be hazardous to
| reproductive systems in humans and animals and are linked
| with obesity and attention disorders.
| badrabbit wrote:
| Interesting but that is n=54 and for a specific geomarket
| (common supply chain).
| blt wrote:
| If the author is here - please include pictures of the printer
| and output in the article!
|
| There is an embedded twitter video, but it seems more aligned
| with the spirit of the project to use the traditional visual aids
| :)
| aschmelyun wrote:
| I'll make some edits to the article today to include those!
| julianlam wrote:
| > Wrapping up and next steps
|
| The only logical next step here is to get that metal spike thing,
| so you can stab closed issues on completion.
| FroshKiller wrote:
| It's called a spindle.
| the_arun wrote:
| Get to etch them on stone - go further back in time.
| jacobmartin wrote:
| Damnatio memoriae if the issue is actually "functions as
| intended" and that can be clearly seen from the
| documentation?
| jen729w wrote:
| This is how I work! I write my tasks on slips of paper and stab
| them on to the spike when done.
|
| https://share.icloud.com/photos/0f3i7xv2QbOeofiM4atMtSCzA
| [deleted]
| staindk wrote:
| With a camera in the roof pointed at it that OCRs the most
| recently stabbed ticket and automatically marks it as 'done'
| with any comments you hand-wrote onto the slip of paper.
| zdw wrote:
| Rather than the chmod of the printers /dev node, the user could
| probably be added to the `lp` group to grant the correct
| permissions.
|
| "Just `chmod 777` it" as the universal solution to permission
| issues is usually solving the wrong problem.
| Nextgrid wrote:
| To be fair, chmod 777 is a perfectly acceptable workaround for
| a single-user, single-purpose system.
| aschmelyun wrote:
| Forgot to mention that in the article, but I tried that as
| well. Added `lp` group to both the pi and root users, to no
| avail.
| dqpb wrote:
| Nice. Any time you submit a bug, you give the maintainer a little
| bit of cancer.
| popotamonga wrote:
| is thermal paper bad?
| throwaway599281 wrote:
| yes, it's full of BPA.
|
| https://www.pca.state.mn.us/green-chemistry/bpa-thermal-
| pape...
| latexr wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30804319
| peter303 wrote:
| I wouldnt be surprised if this applies to other Hondas than
| listed, e.g. FIT, Accord ...
| leipert wrote:
| I would recommend switching to their Events API. Webhooks are
| great until they aren't. Querying the Events API means you are
| able to resume if GitHub, your network or your Raspberry Pi was
| down.
|
| And bonus, your pi doesn't need to be exposed to the world.
| aschmelyun wrote:
| Ooh, that's good to know. I'll keep that in mind for Version 2!
| throwra620 wrote:
| bob1029 wrote:
| Learned this one the hard way. Events are definitely the way to
| go. You can guarantee perfect synchronization of state if you
| use it carefully (i.e. as a log you replay as needed).
| daenz wrote:
| Pull vs push? Why not both! Then you'll get the benefits of low
| latency and robustness.
| 0x0 wrote:
| This is super cool!
|
| Quick question though. Why go through all the hassle with the
| custom udev rule and dialout group if you are just using sudo to
| run the script after all?
| alttab wrote:
| You should get a camera and write an OCR scanner that
| automatically scans the receipts as they are printed, then pushes
| it into a DB so you can view all your issues via a simple web
| application, replete with tracking, reminders, and then an e-mail
| integration that e-mails the opener of the issue when you put a
| comment on the receipt that's printed and rescanned.
| tristor wrote:
| This is rather clever satire.
| nixpulvis wrote:
| This is rather clever commentary.
| eckza wrote:
| Web 2.0 -> Web 1.0 -> Web 2.0 adapter.
| bmn__ wrote:
| https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Web_0_0x2e_1
| gilleain wrote:
| Yes the wooden table was the first thing that came to mind.
|
| Oddly enough I have recently been drawing geometric
| designs, and then got the idea to draw them with a drawing
| ro bot. The current process is :
|
| 1. Draw design with ruler and compass
|
| 2. Photograph paper
|
| 3. Edge-detect image in Inkscape
|
| 4. Draw over the edge detected lines and save to SVG
|
| 5. Possibly convert to a graph, and run the Chinese postman
| algorithm over it
|
| 6. Convert graph to turtle commands and send to robot
|
| So not far off. Also step 2 often involves a wooden
| surface...
| randomdata wrote:
| A day in the life of a bookkeeper.
| recentdarkness wrote:
| All Hail to the air gapped database - At least no one will be
| breaking into that one that easily.
| merlincorey wrote:
| Lil' Bobby Tables submits an issue.
| iamjackg wrote:
| This reminds me of a comment I read a long time ago about
| somebody's experience working for a company that had a branch
| in Japan. They would demand that some spreadsheets be sent as a
| fax, and then some employee would be tasked with re-typing all
| that information back into a spreadsheet later on.
| SllX wrote:
| Someone once told me this is how they share source code
| between departments at some software shops in Japan.
|
| I still refuse to believe this is true.
| [deleted]
| iancmceachern wrote:
| I once worked at a job where one of the owners of the
| company, when asked to send a pdf copy of a document, would
| print out the document on the shared office copier/printer,
| then scan it back in using the same copier/printer and have
| it email him the pdf. Every single time he ever made a pdf of
| any file, even hundreds of pages, he would do this way.
| geoffeg wrote:
| At a job many, many years ago I asked a developer on a
| different team (across town) to email me an XML file I
| needed for a feature I was working on. After a few hours of
| not getting anything I checked with him and he said the
| file was too large and the email server wasn't allowing him
| to send it to me. It was a few hundred kilobytes, it
| shouldn't have been a problem but I didn't care too much, I
| just wanted the file so I asked him to zip it up to reduce
| the size. A few minutes later he said the email server was
| still rejecting it, even as a zip file. Getting frustrated,
| I grabbed my laptop and drove to the other office. He
| showed me the XML file... which was a Word document with
| screenshots of the XML document opened in an editor.
|
| Exasperated, I asked him why he couldn't just send me the
| raw XML file instead of putting screenshots in a Word
| document. Turns out the document was on another system he
| had to remote into (with Citrix, I think? I don't remember
| what was used back then) and he wasn't "allowed" to copy
| files off that machine.
| duxup wrote:
| I once had a cube next to mine. It was the "Japan Cube", all
| it had was a printer and a fax machine.
|
| It was only ever used for faxes to and from Japan.
|
| Eventually it was decorated with Japanese art and etc.
| warmfusion wrote:
| I did something like this but linked it to Slack and put the
| printer in our office.
|
| If you responded to a message with a printer emoji she (Her name
| was Tilly) would print the message (could even print images/first
| frame of gifs) in black and white.
|
| https://hackaday.io/project/21191-tilly-the-slack-printer
| geniium wrote:
| When I read this I want to instantly go on one of your github and
| create an "test printer" issue :evil-grins:
| scode2 wrote:
| What is the point of setting up the udev group if you're just
| going to run php as root anyways?
| daenz wrote:
| There's something about a physical reference to information that
| you can't quite capture digitally. You can hand it to someone.
| You can use it as a prop to express your happiness or
| frustration. You can destroy.
|
| I know this was a fun project but I hope we can capture more
| physical interactions in the future, and not just in VR.
| urbandw311er wrote:
| Sorry to be 'that guy' but it is also a little bit wasteful.
| XorNot wrote:
| Having done "post-it notes on a board" at an earlier job, I
| could not feel more different about it. Post-it notes _sucked_
| - they 're not big enough to capture any history or context,
| and the types of tasks I was handed would be about 10-20 extra
| subtasks on their own.
|
| I ended up trolling the system by simply adding post-it notes
| to post-it notes for subtasks as a protest against the fact
| that I could never keep any useful detail against them and the
| tasks themselves ranged between gigantic and functionally
| unsolvable (it was infrastructure work, so "done" didn't really
| exist).
| a_wild_dandan wrote:
| You could literally burn a ticket. That would be so
| cathartic...
| EsotericAlgo wrote:
| These printers also have an expansion network card.
|
| A decade ago I worked on a project to deploy a couple hundred of
| these to a restaurant chain as part of a POC for an online
| ordering program for pickup orders. The requirement for each
| franchisee was to acquire a static IP and configure one of these
| printers to bind that static address using a network card that
| replaced the serial connection. The online interface from the
| vendor was configured with that static address and sent text over
| TCP to print the incoming orders. The printer than just printed
| whatever it received.
|
| The project was initially deployed without any whitelisting or
| authentication (at the vendors behest) so for a couple months
| these printers were printing a mixture of garbage and scan
| attempts from random devices connecting. It was quite humorous at
| the time but scares the hell out of me given the other things
| that were on that internal network. The project failed for other
| reasons, but it looks like that particular vendor is still
| around.
| andix wrote:
| They are quite fast (200mm/s). If you send a malicious job you
| have 12m of paper sticking out of the printer within a minute
| :D
| gopaz wrote:
| Fujitsu fp-2200 can print 400mm/s, it's quite mind boggling
| how fast the paper comes out :)
|
| Also if you hold feed while power on you get a interactive
| menu, printed on paper. Probably works on Epson printers also
| dcchambers wrote:
| This is amazing.
| jaredlt wrote:
| I enjoyed the response on Twitter
| https://twitter.com/aschmelyun/status/1507043742167060487?t=...
| kevincox wrote:
| I had one of these as well that you could print just by writing
| to a device file. I'm sure it had fancier formats for graphics
| and stuff but it was fun to just use some ascii art to get
| something printed.
| tootie wrote:
| I did this at work once. We had receipt printers for a kiosk
| thing we were building and I printed Jira tickets on it. Nobody
| thought it was funny except me.
| post_break wrote:
| I have a receipt printer I was using for grocery lists. I still
| haven't found a good use for it yet. I love how extremely fast it
| is though and it has auto cut. Maybe I can use it for a ticket
| system at work.
| weaksauce wrote:
| any kind of todo thing it would be good for or temporary
| labeling things with painter's tape.
| semireg wrote:
| This is awesome. I'm a solo dev and I created an electron app
| named Label LIVE. I recently added an HTTP API so you can fire
| off label jobs using a POST request (or retrieve label PNGs via
| GET). What Label LIVE affords is a WYSIWYG imaging pipeline that
| can target many different thermal printers at the correct DPI, or
| generate/submit PDFs to a printer (system or network). If you
| mention this note and your project, I'll send you a free license
| for "testing." :D (and no, no direct Linux-Desktop support yet,
| sorry!) Read more at https://label.live/guides/automated-label-
| printing-integrati...
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