thermalprinter 0.3.0

Driver for the DP-EH600 thermal printer (AdaFruit).

DP-EH600 Thermal Printer

Python module to manage DP-EH600 thermal printers (the one sold by AdaFruit).

• Python 3.7+ and PEP8 compliant;
• this is a clean follow of the technical manual with few helpers;
• and there is a complete, and beautiful, documentation 🙂
• also several useful recipes;
• contributors are welcome, check the developer guide!

Printers

Supported printers:

• DP-EH600
• DP-EH400/1

Installation

python -m pip install -U thermalprinter

Usage

An example is better than a thousand words:

from PIL import Image  # Optional, for printing images
from ThermalPrinter import *


with ThermalPrinter(port="/dev/ttyAMA0") as printer:
    # Picture
    printer.image(Image.open("src/tests/gnu.png"))

    # Bar codes
    printer.barcode_height(80)
    printer.barcode_position(BarCodePosition.BELOW)
    printer.barcode_width(3)
    printer.barcode("012345678901", BarCode.EAN13)

    # Styles
    printer.out("Bold", bold=True)
    printer.out("Double height", double_height=True)
    printer.out("Double width", double_width=True)
    printer.out("Inverse", inverse=True)
    printer.out("Rotate 90°", rotate=True, codepage=CodePage.ISO_8859_1)
    printer.out("Strike", strike=True)
    printer.out("Underline", underline=1)
    printer.out("Upside down", upside_down=True)

    # Chinese (almost all alphabets exist)
    printer.out("现代汉语通用字表", chinese=True, chinese_format=Chinese.UTF_8)
                
    # Greek (excepted the ΐ character)
    printer.out("Στην υγειά μας!", codepage=CodePage.CP737)

    # Other characters
    printer.out(b"Cards \xe8 \xe9 \xea \xeb", codepage=CodePage.CP932)

    # Accents
    printer.out("Voilà !", justify="C", strike=True, underline=2, codepage=CodePage.ISO_8859_1)

    # Line feeds
    printer.feed(2)