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Review on TEROW Portable Max Width High Speed Compatible by Ryan Brunson

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Underperforming Receipt Printer

Working. Installing on Linux is a bit tedious. I've had the best luck blacklisting the usblp driver and using python-escpos which uses raw USB to control the printer. There is a project on Github called svg_label that is pretty good. When printing images, you can see the hidden weakness of this printer: an underpowered power supply. If a line contains more than 50% black pixels, it will not print well. A continuous horizontal line along the entire length is hardly fixed on thermal paper. As far as I can tell, this printer puts out as much heat as it can transfer to the paper. If you ask him to heat more than half the pixels at once, he won't be able to heat them enough to turn the paper black. This is real pain. This means I can't draw rectangles around anything in my receipts. The horizontal line must be dashed to show up at all.

Pros
  • Office Products
Cons
  • Very Expensive