Custom printer library on nodejs
Custom printer library written on serialport and canvas libraries. Tested only with VKP-80III and K-80 models. K-80 is missing a lot's of features of VKP-80III.
1. Pre-installation
1) Install canvas pre-dependencies for using image printing on your printer
OS | Command |
---|---|
OS X | Using Homebrew: brew install pkg-config cairo pango libpng jpeg giflib librsvg |
Ubuntu | sudo apt-get install build-essential libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev librsvg2-dev |
Fedora | sudo yum install gcc-c++ cairo-devel pango-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel giflib-devel |
Solaris | pkgin install cairo pango pkg-config xproto renderproto kbproto xextproto |
OpenBSD | doas pkg_add cairo pango png jpeg giflib |
Windows | See the wiki |
Others | See the wiki |
Mac OS X v10.11+: If you have recently updated to Mac OS X v10.11+ and are experiencing trouble when compiling, run the following command: xcode-select --install
. Read more about the problem on Stack Overflow.
If you have xcode 10.0 or higher installed, in order to build from source you need NPM 6.4.1 or higher
2.) Run npm install
npm install
3.) Setup configuration file
Configure config file, also there is example config file, which you can copy and edit.
Type has only two argument: vkp80iii or k80. If portConfiguration is null, only commands will be printed on console.
2. Usage
npm run test
and it will print test print on your ESC-POS custom printer :) have fun.