Receipt printer hacking (by )

So, for Christmas, I got a receipt printer. It's a Jepod JP-5890K, the important specifications of which being:

  • Mains powered
  • USB connectivity (appears as a standard USB printer)
  • 58mm wide thermal paper rolls (widely available, cheap)
  • 384 dot horizontal resolution
  • No automatic cutter, you need to tear the paper off yourself
  • Costs less than £30

I asked for this thing because I noticed I was using a lot of Post-It notes to basically copy stuff down off the screen, and automating that seemed fun.

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