Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python (2018)

In version 1.8 of pretix, we introduced shipping management as a new feature for the pretix Hosted and Enterprise editions. With this plug-in, you can choose not to deliver your tickets to your visitors as a downloadable file, but to send them via snail mail instead. Of course, you can just download those tickets as regular-sized PDF files, print them out and ship them, but the feature is usually most interesting if you want to send out high-quality tickets that look good e.g. in a gift wrapping under a christmas tree or pinned to a wall as a souvenier of the event. For this purpose, you will need a thermal ticket printer as well as suitable ticket paper. Last year, I took a closer look at this market and tested devices from two of the major ticket printer vendors: The BOCA Lemur as well as the Practical Automation uITL+2003CF model. In our test, the printing quality of both printers was very similar. The uITL+ is missing a network port in contrast to the BOCA Lemur, but the uITL+ fea ... Read full article.