Receipt designer for thermal printers - Free and open source

In the last months I have been working on a ticket designer to print on thermal printers by using ESC POS commands. The free ESC POS thermal printer designer is web-based and can be used to create your own invoices, whether sales receipt, sales invoice, purchase receipt and any other design to print on thermal printers. If you want, you can try it right now with the link below, but I recommend you review the content of the post before trying it: https://parzibyte.me/apps/ticket-designer/#/first-steps You will be able to print images, formatted text, tables, QR codes, barcodes, cut the paper, advance it, open the cash drawer and design any receipt for your POS printer. This will work with USB printers on Windows, Linux and Raspberry; as well as Bluetooth printers on Android. All using the same ESC POS receipt designer. ...

January 5, 2024 · 5 min · 1051 words · Parzibyte

Print diacritic text in thermal printer - ESC POS commands

In this post I will show you how to print spanish text, text with accents or ñ letters on a thermal printer. I have been searching for this for a long time and now I want to share it. Printing spanish text or diacritict text is necessary because sometimes the customer’s names or data contains some chars out of the ASCII range. I will show you how to do this with JavaScript directly from the browser, but once you understand it, you will be able to print from any programming language. ...

July 5, 2023 · 5 min · 913 words · Parzibyte

Silent PDF Print with JavaScript and plugin

Today I am going to present you a plugin that I have just created. It is a plugin to print a PDF file silently, that is, without asking the user for confirmation. This plugin exposes a REST API so that a PDF can be printed without confirmation using JavaScript. Just make an HTTP GET request to the plugin path sending the name of the PDF and the name of the printer. The best thing about this is that you can use the virtual printers that Windows offers, in this way you can do your tests in an ecological way. Throughout this post I will show you the documentation of the plugin and all the details of it, including how you can get it. ...

March 21, 2021 · 13 min · 2581 words · Parzibyte

Windows - Print PDF from CMD with PDFtoPrinter

In this post I will show you how to print a PDF document from the Windows command line, terminal or CMD using the executable PDFtoPrinter.exe. As you know, printing a PDF from the Windows terminal is not possible using the print command (since it only prints text files), since a translator is required to read the content of the PDF and send it to the printer. It is precisely what this utility called PDFtoPrinter.exe does, and in this post I’ll show you how to use it. ...

March 21, 2021 · 3 min · 480 words · Parzibyte

A plugin for printing in thermal printers directly from browser

In this post I will introduce to you a plugin for printing tickets, receipts or invoices on a thermal printer using client-side JavaScript even if your web page or application is on a cloud server. This plugin allows you to print directly from browsers, without dialogs and without browsers compatibility issues because you only have to send a HTTP request to print silently and in the background. ...

October 14, 2019 · 3 min · 547 words · Parzibyte

Print ticket in thermal printer directly from browser

In this post I will show you how to print a receipt in a thermal printer directly from web browser, without user interaction and confirm dialogs, by using a free plugin. ...

October 14, 2019 · 3 min · 516 words · Parzibyte