ADA597 - Mini Thermal Receipt Printer

ADA597 - Mini Thermal Receipt Printer

Description

Add a mini printer to any microcontroller project with this very cute thermal printer. Thermal printers are also known as receipt printers, they're what you get when you go to the ATM or grocery store. Now you can embed a little printer of your own into an enclosure. This printer is ideal for interfacing with a microcontroller, you simply need a 3.3V-5V TTL serial output from your microcontroller to print text, barcodes, bitmap graphics, even a QR code!

This package comes with a thermal printer including the print head (it does not require ink, a set of power and data cables, and two plastic shims for panel mounting. Thermal paper not included! The printer uses very common 2.25" wide thermal paper, available in any office or stationery supply store. It can fit up to 50 ft of paper in the bay at once. You will also need a 5 to 9VDC regulated power supply, that can provide 1.5A or more during the high-current print - our 5V 2A power supply will work very nicely. We also suggest picking up a roll or two of 50' long thermal paper, and also a 2.1mm jack terminal block adapter which will make it easy to connect the power adapter. We also have a starter pack that includes all the above

We really like this printer because its easy to make Bold, underline, inverted text, variable line spacing, left/center/right justification, barcodes in 11 standard formats with adjustable height, and even custom bitmap graphics.

Of course, we wouldn't leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!" - We have a full tutorial and matching Arduino library that demonstrates the following:

Printing with small, medium and large text
Bold and underline text
Inverted text
Variable
line
spacing
Left, center and right justification
Barcodes in the following standard formats: UPC A, UPC E, EAN13, EAN8, CODE39, I25, CODEBAR, CODE93, CODE128, CODE11 and MSI - with adjustable barcode height
Custom monochrome bitmap graphics!
How to include a QR code

Note: We have these working great with classic Arduino UNOs (and other Atmega328-based 'duinos), and others have gotten them to work with Megas and other Arduino-compatibles that have a Serial port available

Technical Details

Requires 2.25" wide, 50 ft or shorter thermal paper
Requires 5-9VDC @ 1.5Amp power supply during print
Printing Speed: 50-80mm/s
Resolution: 8 dots/mm, 384 dots/line
Effective Printing Width: 48mm
Character Set: ASCII,GB2312-80(Chinese)
Print Font: ANK:5×7, Chinese: 12x24,24×24
Paper Type: Thermal paper
Paper Width: 57.5 ±0.5mm
Paper Roll Diameter: max 39mm
Protocol: TTL Serial, 19200 baud
Mean Cycles Before Failure: 5 million lines
Power Supply (Adapter): DC5V-9V
Outline Dimension (WxDxH): 111x65x57mm
Installation Port Size: 103 x 57mm
Color: Black
Operating Temp: 5°C ~ 50°C
Operating Humidity: 10% ~ 80%
Storage Temp: -20°C ~ 60°C
Storage Humidity: 10% ~ 90%
Screws: M2.5

Downloads:

Arduino Thermal library . To download. click the DOWNLOADS button in the bar, rename the uncompressed folder Thermal. Check that the Thermal folder contains Thermal.cpp and Thermal.h. Place the Thermal library folder in your /libraries/ folder. You may need to create the libraries subfolder if its your first library. Restart the IDE.
NewSoftSerial library - required for the Thermal library. Download and install it as you did the Thermal library. Restart the IDE.
LCD Assistant - bitmap converter
Printer User Manual
Printer Product sheet

Of course, we wouldn't leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!" - We have a full tutorial and matching Arduino library that demonstrates the following:

Printing with small, medium and large text
Bold and underline text
Inverted text
Variable
line
spacing
Left justification
Center justification
Right justification
Barcodes in the following standard formats: UPC A, UPC E, EAN13, EAN8, CODE39, I25, CODEBAR, CODE93, CODE128, CODE11 and MSI - with adjustable barcode eight
Custom monochrome bitmap graphics!
How to include a QR code