Hi there!<p>I would like to send a POST request to a thermal printer, but everything sucks so far...
Does anyone have any suggestions on which one is the best one?<p>And also any libraries that would be helpful. Thanks so much guys!<p>I'm considering these:<p>* http://www.adafruit.com/products/600<p>* http://littleprinter.com/<p>* a standard Star/Epson printer (I don't want to use these because it's costly and I'm a startup)<p>Thanks again !!!
I use these things every day (I work retail). We use Star TSP700 [Mk I or Mk II] printers with CUPS. The PPD files are available for download from the Star Micronics website. Some of my time is spent hacking the PPDs to adjust paper sizes, resolution etc, but at least I have that option. The printers have an ethernet port, and some of them come with USB.
I've just developed a way to communicate with a Toshiba printer. <a href="http://www.toshibatec-eu.co.uk/Europe/en/products/printers/overview_printers/_products/b-ev4d_b-ev4t/" rel="nofollow">http://www.toshibatec-eu.co.uk/Europe/en/products/printers/o...</a><p>I ended up using <a href="http://www.bartenderbarcodesoftware.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bartenderbarcodesoftware.com/</a> to create the stickers, intercepting the request to the printer with WireShark, then finally re-creating the request using PHP sockets.<p>It's not easy!