Show HN: Typos – Render Typst Documents to Thermal Printers (Go and ESC/POS)

Category: cli-tool

Tags: thermal-printer, escpos, typst, go, rest-api, rendering

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

Typos bridges Typst documents and ESC/POS thermal printers, rendering documents or images to dithered raster output via a Go CLI and optional REST server with an async job queue and TOML-based templating. It cleverly sidesteps the pain of CJK font support in thermal printers by using Typst for layout rendering instead of native code pages.

Target audience: hobbyist developers, point-of-sale builders, makers using thermal printers, and developers needing CJK receipt printing

Repository: https://github.com/shlewislee/typos · Go · MPL-2.0

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