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This is a raw printer mechanism that prints on a 2" roll of paper.  It 
has a motor to advance the paper, the thermal print head which 
contains an array of dots across the width of the paper, and a couple 
of microswitches.  My system uses a character mode LCD for setup but 
nothing else.

wbounce wrote:
> Is it HPL compatible? Or what about Postscript compatible. 
> If HPL you do escape code commands for drawing. If postscript you set a
> starting point and moveto commands.
> 
> The other thing is the aspect is different than the screen. If the
> printer does 150 X 150 or 300 X 300 you can graph X and Y straight where
> as the screen has a different number of pixels for X from y.
> 
> SO you bot is going to carry a printer around?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of erikc
> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 2:16 PM
> To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [AVR-Chat] Thermal printer questions
> 
> 
> Hi all.  I'm working on a datalogger using an ATmega8535 and want to 
> attach a thermal printer to it so I can get a nice graph of the data. 
>   Right now, I'm sending the data to a PC for import into an Excel 
> spreadsheet.  (This is a pain because tethers me to the computer and I 
> need portability.)  The printer I have in mind is a Seiko p/n 
> LTP251B-192. (I've got three of them.)  This is a discontinued product 
> so it does not appear anywhere on Seiko's website, nor does it appear 
> in Google.  (Lots of hits on where I can buy paper, though.)
> 
> If anybody knows:
> 
> [1] Where can I find a datasheet for this part.
> [2] Something about creating graphics for print (as opposed to 
> graphics for display).
> 
> I would appreciate it.
> 
> 
> erikc
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