Stamp compatible serial printers

stamptrol

·Hi folks,

·· I've got an up-coming project which needs a small printer to issue a load slip or transaction ticket.

·· The Citizen CMP10, a serial thermal printer seems·reasonably suitable.

·· Has any one got a recommendation or an alternative?

·· Thanks,



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Tom Sisk

http://www.siskconsult.com
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PJAllen

http://www.wtxweb.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=59&category_id=11&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1

Franklin

www.curcomp.com/small-printers/?gclid=CLKc4qvLtpQCFSY1agodaC12UA

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- Stephen

stamptrol

Thanks, folks.

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Tom Sisk

http://www.siskconsult.com
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LoopyByteloose

Most importantly is to consider what the printer requires in extra control lines and parity. In general the BasicStamp and other microprocessors can save a great deal of code space and time if they don't have to calculated parity and handshaking. Also, paritiy is faster with 7 bit ASCII than 8 bit because the microprocessor has to manipulate two bytes of incoming data just to get that 9th parity bit.

I was trying to create full parity and handshaking with the SXes in assembly code an it became obvious why less and less devices are bothering with such.

Of course, if you are using a device that demand such, you can often cheat the device by using a jumper.

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stamptrol

Kramer,

Thanks for info.

Most of the printers I've used with stamps have been industrial serial printers. Generally very easy to work with....control codes and serial data out to the printer and printer status in via serial. Have used impact and thermal Zebra's and Star's but they are a bit pricey for this job.

Was really looking for some lower priced units that someone had actually driven from the Stamp.

I've located a couple of other likely suspects on ebay so may just pick them up and experiment.

Cheers,

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Tom Sisk

http://www.siskconsult.com
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uxorious

I actually have a backburner project that will require connecting a stamp to a Zebra 2844. I am planning to feed serial ASCii data to the printer using Zebra's ZPL language. With a few lines of ASCii ZPL you can print some pretty nice labels even with barcodes. They are a little expensive, but are very versatile. We have a few that just seem to be workhorses in a production environment, even though they are meant to be a desktop printer.

www.zebra.com/id/zebra/na/en/index/products/printers/desktop/lp2844.html

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