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Serial Thermal Printer

ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
edited 2003-01-03 21:02 in General Discussion
Has anyone ever connected a BS2 to a 2-inch wide serial thermal printer?
I have a need for a hard copy print out of RS232 information which consist
of only numbers (i.e. 52000.0) at 9600 baud.
I thought of hacking a small handheld calculator that prints out on paper.
Has anyone tried this?

Thanks for any help

Dick


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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-01-03 21:02
    I trash-picked a couple thermal printers that were from some sort of
    inventory unit. small, 2 D cell battery powered. on the 'project
    for when I get old' shelf.

    I'll dig one out over the weekend.
    It may actually be a parallel port driven unit.

    These are not too uncommon in industry for things like Fluke meters
    to create a hard copy of test results, and portable inventory
    scanners and such.

    Dave



    --- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Gurske" <rfgurske@i...>
    wrote:
    > Has anyone ever connected a BS2 to a 2-inch wide serial thermal
    printer?
    > I have a need for a hard copy print out of RS232 information which
    consist
    > of only numbers (i.e. 52000.0) at 9600 baud.
    > I thought of hacking a small handheld calculator that prints out on
    paper.
    > Has anyone tried this?
    >
    > Thanks for any help
    >
    > Dick
    >
    >
    > [noparse][[/noparse]Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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