PT-210 Auto Power-Off - Githubissues

bitbank2 / Thermal_Printer

Arduino library to draw text and graphics on BLE thermal printers

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PT-210 Auto Power-Off #7

Closed Dr-PV closed 3 years ago

Dr-PV commented 3 years ago

First of all, thank you for the library which work very well.

However, I encountered a problem with PT-210 printer which power off automatically within (approx.) 10 minutes. I tried to solve this problem by printing something to the PT-210 within every 5 minutes period but the printer still power off by itself anyway.

Is there a way to disable this automatic power off on the PT-210 ?

Thank you.

bitbank2 commented 3 years ago

Hi PV, Thanks for sharing that you find the code useful. I imagine there is some command to "keep awake" or to disable the sleep, but I don't know what it is :(. I found a publicly available document to discover the graphics commands, but don't know anything beyond that. Please let me know if you find any info. It may also be that it has to be powered+charging to stay awake. Have you tried that?