Raspberry Pi¶
- Last Reviewed
2017-01-05
This instructions were tested on Raspbian Jessie.
Warning
You should never directly connect an printer with RS232-interface (serial port) directly to a Raspberry PI or similar interface (e.g. those simple USB-sticks without encasing). Those interfaces are based on 5V- or 3,3V-logic (the latter in the case of Raspberry PI). Classical RS232 uses 12V-logic and would thus destroy your interface. Connect both systems with an appropriate level shifter.
Dependencies¶
First, install the packages available on Raspbian.
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-setuptools python3-pip libjpeg8-dev
Installation¶
You can install by using pip3.
sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip
sudo pip3 install python-escpos
Run¶
You need sudo and python3 to run your program.
sudo python3 your-program.py
Now you can attach your printer and and test it with the example code in the project’s set of examples. You can find that in the project-repository.
For more details on this check the installation-manual.