Printer Mail
(A demo Printer application)
This application can send message to printers, where they will be printed out. Find out more about printers. It's really just an example of how you can build a simple content provider for diminutive internet printers.
If you just want to poke around you can send Exciting a message, or take a look at the source.
If you have a printer, and want to use this instance of Printer Mail to receive messages you can register here.
If you don't have a printer, why not find out how to get or make a printer for yourself?
How it works
Printers are registered by storing their print URL along side a nickname, which forms the URL in this app (e.g. /send/exciting).
When a message is "sent", it is stored in the database, associated with the printer record.
The application then sends a request to the given print URL with the URL for that message (e.g. /pictures/6). The printer backend server then takes care of rasterising the message page, and making it available to the right printer.
More information
To find out more, you can take a look at any (or all) of the following:
- The introductory blog post;
- The project page;
- The backend server we are running;
- The source for this app, the drawing app, the weather scheduled content app or the backend server itself.