marcodpt/rawprinter

An IOT server written in rust for connecting via USB to raw printers.

Raw Printer

An IOT server written in rust for connecting via USB to raw printers.

Usage Example

As an example, I will show how to connect the Zebra TLP 2844 printer that I used to test the server.

First you need to identify the vendor-id and device-id of the printer.

Run the command in the Linux terminal, or similar command in another operating system.

lsusb | grep Zebra

On my machine I get the following result:

Bus 002 Device 008: ID 0a5f:000a Zebra TLP2844

So to start the server you must run the command:

sudo rawprinter --vendor-id 0x0a5f --device-id 0x000a

If you are compiling manually:

sudo ./target/release/rawprinter --vendor-id 0x0a5f --device-id 0x000a

Testing

To send a test print I am using hurl:

hurl --test test.hurl

Contributing

It's a very simple project. Any contribution, any feedback is greatly appreciated.