Timeline for Thermal receipt printer for Android
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| Sep 20, 2012 at 23:31 | comment | added | t0mm13b | @MichaelKohne that is dependent on if the kernel does indeed have that in place... not all of them do, custom kernels most likely... | |
| Sep 20, 2012 at 23:21 | comment | added | Michael Kohne | @t0mm13b - This SO question goes into it a bit. | |
| Sep 20, 2012 at 21:42 | vote | accept | Adam Matan | ||
| Sep 20, 2012 at 20:49 | comment | added | t0mm13b | Can you include the source in relation to standard serial adapters? I do know that some kernels have that built in for debugging via JTAG and serial/usb chip to enable the reading of kernel logs on boot. But from what I can gather, Android has no clue about serial! | |
| Sep 20, 2012 at 20:33 | comment | added | Michael Kohne | Also, I Googled around a bit and noted that some folks have even been able to use standard serial adapters with a serial terminal program - no rooting required! That could be very useful, because I'd bet that not a few USB receipt printers actually have something like the FTDI serial USB chips embedded in them, rather than anything custom. | |
| Sep 20, 2012 at 20:30 | comment | added | Michael Kohne | @AlEverett - according to the docs at USB Host, it's supported in Android 3.1 and up (so, from a software perspective, almost every tablet). Now that doesn't mean all hardware supports it, but since the OP seems to be in the early stages of the project, it would be simple to choose tablets that do have USB support, either with full sized USB connectors, or USB-on-the-go adapters. | |
| Sep 20, 2012 at 19:47 | comment | added | ale | The problem with a USB printer is that most Android devices don't support USB host mode. | |
| Sep 20, 2012 at 19:27 | history | answered | Michael Kohne | CC BY-SA 3.0 |