Here’s a great step-by-step tutorial for how to use an Adafruit Mini Thermal Printer with a Raspberry Pi from the Raspberry Pi Kiosk project:
This is the result of a sunday night of hacking together with a friend. It represent another step forward in the realisation of the christmas project of this blog, an open source web kiosk. I want the kiosk to be able to print, don’t ask me why. Now the printer works.
The ingredients you need to complete this tutorial are :
- A Raspberry Pi (we discussed in another post how we initially configured it) connected to a monitor
- An Adafruit Mini Thermal Receipt Printer (you can find the user manual here)
- A roll of 50’ long thermal receipt paper – the perfect amount for the thermal printer. BPA-free.
- 5V 2A power supply – an ideal supply for powering the thermal printer (and anything else that can use 5V power)
- 2.1mm DC jack adapter – makes it easy to attach the power supply to the printer
- Tape, red wine, a gospel playlist. (kidding, you don’t really need any tape now).
- I suggest you to buy the starter kit that contains everything you need (but the rpi).
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit, be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Have you tried the new “Adafruit Raspberry Pi Educational Linux Distro” ? It’s our tweaked distribution for teaching electronics using the Raspberry Pi. But wait, there’s more! Try our new Raspberry Pi WebIDE! The easiest way to learn programming on a Raspberry Pi.
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