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Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI

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Re: Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI

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Post by fy20 »

thomascountz wrote: post #2

Obligatory "be careful with that poison paper" warning![1] [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

An alternative to consider are dot matrix / impact printers.

They are used in kitchens, as heat sensitive paper doesn't work well there. It's just plain paper and an ink ribbon.

Same underlying protocol as thermal printers, so the code is mostly plug and play.

They often can print in two colours (red and black). And sound like the 1980s.

Re: Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI

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Post by bigbuppo »

I actually use my printers thank you very much. Even bought one of those bank teller slip printer things and a few boxes check-sized slips. I use them for time tracking and todo list.

I didn't go totally crazy, though, and stopped before getting too deep into "...and then OCR them using the check scanner" because I remembered I was already keeping track of start/stop times in a database when printing the slips.

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