Cat-Printer-CMD-Pipe

Uses https://github.com/NaitLee/Cat-Printer print.py to act as an command line tool to directly print your favorite text onto your thermo printer
Also uses https://github.com/FriedOrange/MatrixSans as a great printable font. Matrix-Sans is supplied in this repostory

How to use

Step 1: Install https://github.com/NaitLee/Cat-Printer and copy the files from this repository in the folder.
Step 2: Pipe the text you want to print to the text.py, for example ls -lh | python3 ~/Cat-Printer/text.py
Step 3: Profit

Optional: add a shortcut to your .rc file like: alias catprint="python3 ~/Cat-Printer/text.py", so you can use it all the time by simply piping to catprint

Variables

You can set some enviroment variables:

• "cat_font" - set the used TTF font, default: MatrixSans-Regular.ttf
• "cat_font_size" - the font size used (as it will always be resized just increases the quality) default: 20)
• "cat_font_spacing" - the spacing between lines, default: -2)
• "cat_length" - the maximum amount of characters till linebreak, default: 60)
• "cat_search" - the timeout to search for a compatible printer, default: 6)
• "cat_max-retries" - how many times printer.py should be called before giving up, default: 5)