Citation
BibTEX
@misc { npapadopoulos_peripage_bluetooth_printing_via_the_terminal,
author = "Nikolaos Papadopoulos",
title = "Peripage bluetooth printing via the terminal",
howpublished = "\url{https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2022/09/03/cli-print-peripage}",
month = "09",
year = "2022",
}
IEEE
[1] N. Papadopoulos, "Peripage bluetooth printing via the terminal",
https://www.4rknova.com, 2022. [Online].
Available: \url{https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2022/09/03/cli-print-peripage}.
[Accessed: 01-03-2025].
Table of Contents
Peripage printers are very cheap and fun to experiment with. I purchased a 203 dpi model A6 from ebay a while ago and used it in a few projects. In this post I demonstrate how easy it is to print wirelessly via the terminal.
Install dependencies
We will use the python ppa6 package which provides a utility for printing on Peripage A6/A6+ thermal printers over bluetooth.
$ pip install ppa6
Setup
We need the Mac address of the printer. We can use hcitool for that.
$ hcitool scan Scanning .. 00:15:83:15:be:5f PeriPage_BE5F
Take a note of that address.
Printing
The contrast can be adjusted using the ‘-c’ switch. There are 3 levels [0-2]. Below are some examples of how to print using the CLI tool:
Text
$ ppa6 -m 00:15:83:15:be:5f -c 2 -t "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" -n
Text stream
$ ppa6 -m 00:15:83:15:be:5f -c 2 -s Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Images
$ ppa6 -m 00:15:83:15:be:5f -c 2 -i test.jpg
Test image
source: freestock.com
QR codes
$ ppa6 -m 00:15:83:15:be:5f -c 2 -q "https://www.4rknova.com"
