Adafruit Mini Thermal Printer Arduino

Arduino Serial Thermal Printer Description:

This is an embedded mini Thermal printer, Adafruit Mini Thermal Printer Serial Communication Can Attach with any Microcontroller Also can use as receipt printer, Use With Arduino also which is widely used in various occasions, such as supermarkets, convenience stores, post office, bank and so on. It is not a normal consumer product, but similar to consumer products. The compact size makes it easy to be embedded to any kinds of instruments and mete. With a nice appearance, you can even put it on the table. On the hardware side, we specially choose the TTL interface so that it can be directly controlled by development boards such as Arduino or Raspberry Pi. In the Internet of things era, it’s time to print out your ideas!.

A thermal printer typically contains at least these components:



Thermal head: Produces heat to create an image on the paper

Platen: A rubber roller which moves the paper

Spring: Applies pressure to hold the paper and printhead together







Thermal print head at high magnification.





Thermal paper is impregnated with a solid-state mixture of a dye and a suitable matrix, for example, a fluoran leuco dye and an octadecylphosphonic acid.

When the matrix is heated above its melting point, the dye reacts with the acid, shifts to its colored form, and the changed form is then conserved in metastable state when the matrix solidifies back quickly enough, a process



 

Arduino Serial Thermal Printer Features:

Low-noise direct thermal printing method



Printer control panel built-in GB18030 Chinese character



Fast printing speed



Can support Max. 39mm paper roll, the biggest paper roll of the same models



TTL interface



Rich of graphics/curves/characte print function



Easy paper loading structure



Support 5V-9V wide power voltage for Thermal printer

Printing method: Mini Thermal direct line printing



Paper loading method: easy paper loading



Paper width: 57mm Print width: 48mm



Resolution ration: 8dots/mm(384dots/line)



Life of printing head: 50km



Printing speed: 60mm/sec.; Max.80mm/sec.(voltage 8.5V)



Character size: 12x24dots, 24x24dots



Chinese character fonts: GB18030,12x24dots, 24x24dots



Outline dimensions: 111mmx65mmx57mm



Installation dimensions: 103mmx57mm



Embedded depth: 50mm



Paper roll specifications: width 57mm, Max. diameter 39mm

     Usage of Power and installation:

Interface: 232



Input power: DC 12V



Operating temperature: 5~50



Storage temperature: -20~60



Operating humidity: 10%~80%



Storage humidity: 10%~90%

PACKAGE:

20 Centimete * 14 Centimete * 4 Centimete

0.500 Kilogram

With Data cable and Power cable