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Re:"We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you... by naikrovek on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:09AM (#37943945)
> Each print has to be manually scanned in

Seems like it would be easier long-term to just keep a copy of what the browser sends to your server, then display that instead of the scanned print itself.

Even if you generate the printer bytestream in the browser and just `cat` whatever comes in to your printer device, it would probably be faster (again, long-term) to write software which can render that data stream to an image.

but as an art project, it's perfect. is the source code anywhere?

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Re:"We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you... by lazyatom on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:24AM (#37944178)
The code for the guestbook is not open source, but it's built on this open-source platform: https://github.com/exciting-io/printer
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Re:"We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you... by lazyatom on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:17AM (#37944063)
We can indeed do that, but as you correctly identify, a purely-digital copy would undermine the aesthetic :)
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