Physically print output of print python

[German_John]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm an absolute noob to programming. I've written a script that generates a form of German poem from a set of word lists. Eventually, I want to add a little thermal printer (already on its way), connect it to a Raspi Zero, add a button, and have it print the generated text on the printer.

I've searched for a bit, but I couldn't find a way to have a python script actually, physically print something. Surely there must be a way?  And surely someone here knows it! 

 

Looking forward to any help!

[mariushm]

How do you connect the thermal printer, using USB, serial port?

For serial ports, there's serial stuff for python, just google it

For usb , maybe see the driver that comes with the printer ... maybe see usb generic printer class , maybe you have to send it postscript (like PDF) etc etc

 

[German_John]

2 minutes ago, mariushm said:

How do you connect the thermal printer, using USB, serial port?

 

USB or Bluetooth. Although for testing right now, I'm using a network printer

[German_John]

Found a solution (or workaround): having the output of print() be written to a file and then directly printing that file with a two second delay. It's not the most elegant solution, but it does what I want quite effectively