🖨️ Mini Printer Pal

Mini Printer Pal is a tool that lets you edit photos and graphics for printing to the Phomemo M02S, a black & white mini printer.

I really love my mini printer, but I get pretty unpredictable results when I print from the official Phomemo app. Some prints look great, but other prints would turn out very dark. 

You might think this is because of the printer, but it's actually because of the app, not the printer!

Therefore I made Mini Printer Pal: the mini photo editor for mini printers! When you use Mini Printer Pal, you get lots of control over how your print looks, a (more) accurate print preview, and some other goodies.

Mini Printer Pal is made specifically for the Phomemo M02S, and works best when printing directly to the M02S via the MacOS app. 

Comparison

Using the official Phomemo app:
Using Mini Printer Pal:

Side-by-side: Phomemo app (L) vs Mini Printer Pal (R)

Features

• Change brightness & contrast
• Adjust opacity (overall lightness of print)
• Swap dithering algorithms
• Resize image
• Make QR codes
• Print to M02S
• Save to png

Gallery

Tips for best results

• Use the MacOS app to print images to the Phomemo M02S directly. 
• Use transparent sticker paper. This will result in MUCH higher quality print, regardless of whether you're using the official Phomemo app or Mini Printer Pal! (It's a little hard to tell by the photo below, but I promise you it's a world of a difference in real life)

Phomemo app (L) vs Mini Printer Pal (R) on transparent paper

What if I have a different mini printer than the Phomemo M02S?

• Mini Printer Pal only supports printing for the Phomemo M02S. If you have a different printer, you can try to select it via the print menu (just click where it says "searching" and you'll see other bluetooth devices), but it probably won't work.
• Instead: Save the image as a png, and then print that png using your mini printer's provided app.
• Unfortunately it might not look very good if your mini printer is doing some intense color correction the way the Phomemo app does 😞 but you can give it a shot! 

Support my work!

Mini Printer Pal is completely free, and I don't even want to take donations for it because it was just a quick fun project, it only works for the M02S, I've only tested this on my one printer so I don't even know if it'll work for anyone but me 😱 and I don't think I'll be updating this very often!

BUT if you'd like to generally support me as an indie dev who's exploring software meets paper, you can check out the following:

• Buy me a coffee on ko-fi
• Subscribe to vrklovespaper 

Thanks so much 💓