# What is the name of the printer module used in the devterm?

**URL:** <https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-the-printer-module-used-in-the-devterm/17381>\
**Category:** DevTerm\
**Created:** [May 9, 2025, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-the-printer-module-used-in-the-devterm/17381 "2025-05-09T06:38:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![thedarted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@thedarted](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/thedarted)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-the-printer-module-used-in-the-devterm/17381/1 "2025-05-09T06:38:23Z")

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Looks like the devterm printer may be something off the shelf, so I was wondering if anyone knows what printer is that and if there are drivers to use it under different linux OS

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**Author:** ![guu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@guu](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/guu)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 5:31am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-the-printer-module-used-in-the-devterm/17381/2 "2025-05-10T05:31:32Z")

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> **[Guide To Setup thermal printer from source code](https://github.com/clockworkpi/DevTerm/wiki/Guide-To-Setup-thermal-printer-from-source-code)**
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> This code repository offers downloads for the latest images of various DevTerm models, as well as kernel patches, keyboard firmware, the source code for screen and printer drivers, hardware schemat...

devterm printer is a userspace stuff

no kernel module

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**Author:** ![thedarted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@thedarted](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/thedarted)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 5:44am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-the-printer-module-used-in-the-devterm/17381/3 "2025-05-10T05:44:00Z")

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Interesting; so you have to compile custom drivers. Does anyone know the brand of the barebone printer internals? They don’t look like the ones that Adafruit used to sell some time ago

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**Author:** ![guu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@guu](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/guu)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-the-printer-module-used-in-the-devterm/17381/4 "2025-05-10T11:50:47Z")

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Well , I misunderstood

The printer hardware module name is MTP02

here is the datasheet

> **[Spec\_MTP02-I.pdf](https://github.com/clockworkpi/DevTerm/blob/main/Schematics/Spec_MTP02-I.pdf)**