This is a general purpose thermal printer with no specific project in mind yet.

You can communicate with it via USB, using ESC/POS. There's a good guide for setting it up here and a handy cheatsheet here.

A web interface is available from the hackerspace network at: http://paperjam

You can use png2pos (currently installed on the lab computer) to print images. The output can be directly piped to /dev/usb/lp0.

By default ESC/POS only supports the limited number of characters from PC437. Someone who would like to print non-Latin characters will need to switch the character set each time it is needed using ESC t (aka. \x1B\x74). Python libraries such as python-escpos or py-xml-escpos could help do the conversion easily (if at all possible as some unicode characters might be outside the capabilities of ESC/POS, in which case, creating an image instead could be a solution).