Introduction

Thermal printer ESC POS plugin

This plugin allows you to print on any thermal printer connected via USB on Windows, Linux and Raspbian.

The HTTP REST API is compatible with any language that can communicate over HTTP, making it compatible with C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript (both client and server side), PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, Swift, Kotlin, Perl, and web frameworks like Vue, React, Angular, as well as desktop technologies such as Electron, Qt, and Flutter, to name a few.

You can also try the PDF plugin and the Android plugin

HTTP to ESC POS

Its unified API allows you to use it from anywhere by using your favorite programming language to send operations that got translated into ESC POS commands.

The plugin includes everything you need to work with thermal printers such as image printing supporting algorithms, barcodes, qr codes, dithering, text and even HTML.

You can design any receipt with the Ticket designer or print programatically

How it works

When you run this plugin it starts a HTTP server which you can call from anywhere. The HTTP API allows you to get the printer list, forward the ESC POS operations and print on any USB-connected printer by sending a JSON object describing the operations and the previously-shared printer name

Web browser first

The main reason this plugin exists is to allow to print silently from JavaScript client-side by using the web browser, but it also works with any other programming languages that can speak HTTP (including cURL, Postman and so on)