Ive got a very interesting project in my hands. i found a relatively modern but thrown out Card Machine. I decided to hack the little thermal printer it housed; So far it has gone great!
I was able to find a datasheet, tap into the flex cable and drive it partially with the arduino, printing Bitmaps! but i need help with font generation here is the problem:
The printer is quite high resolution, 328 Bits per horizontal line, thats 48bytes for a line! I am having a hard time generating a font for it. Can someone point out how i could possibly convert a certain windows font into a byte array? The font needs to be atleast ~ 32bits wide to be readable, so i need high resolution fonts. I suspect the procedure would be similar to that for a Graphic LCD. Any help would he appreciated!