Hey. Have been researching but struggling to find a suitable product.
I’m looking for an instant photo printer that can be easily controlled and fed by TD so that I can generate physical prints. Do people generally just use off the shelf consumer products for this (and in which case, how would you generate an event to start printing and provide the image data?)? Or has anybody come across anything that has an accessible interface for easy integration into TD? Form factor not that important, it’ll be ultimately embedded into a booth type structure, but I’d like to try and build something from a reliable and easy to integrate component.
Hey
I found this tuto witch is perfectly working on Win
But impossible on a Mac.
I really struggled.
I found a very simple way to click and print.
I created a movie file out with increments in the title.
Save to a folder.
And with Automator, I tracked the folder and asked it to automatically print all new files.
Figured out a system that works with Mac, it’s the ‘man lpr’ command that will print a file with the last printing options, and can trigger it from the os.subprocess command in python.
Look for ‘hot folder printing’, it basically means that a printer will print as soon as a file is saved/uploaded to a specified folder. We’ve used a DNP printer which has it’s own drivers/utility tools to set up a ‘hot folder’.
