Thermal Printer

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.  The printer uses very common 2.25" wide thermal paper, available in any office or stationary 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. We recommend our 5V 2.5A power supply

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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%