Send me a message that will get printed on my home receipt printer. No, I'm not kidding.

Printing images	with text	and some bugs

Printomat lets you submit text and images to get printed on a receipt printer sitting at my desk.

Yes, I'm aware that FAX exists, but this is more fun.

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• server: collects and manages incoming messages and images
  • uses FastAPI
  • implements IP-based timeouts so the printer doesn't die
  • supports friendship tokens, which can be given to users to skip time-outs
  • communicates with the printer and services via websockets
• client: connects to the server and prints things
  • handles the printing via Python-ESC/POS
  • prints images created via Pillow
• services: custom scripts to print custom things
  • services/echo_service.py -- echo messages from server
  • services/weather_service.py -- periodically prints daily forecast

To run, use

cp server/config.example.toml server/config.toml
uv run python -m server

and

cp client/config.example.toml client/config.toml
uv run python -m client