OH MY GOD I thought I was the only one who noticed that! I still prefer gmaps for most things, but the zoom out after I narrowed into exactly where I wanted is just infuriating UX. If I wanted that broad of a search I’d just… I dunno… go read a food blog.
Where in europe? We ship to all of EU, and just started taking orders manually for UK. Send me an email and I'll see if we can take your order. We're a startup so we really are expanding as quick as possible :)
We did this because we want to guarantee an excellent experience. While the Kickstarter was open to every country, kickstarter backers know to expect long lead times and needing to pay their own import duties. We have agreements with a distributor for all countries in the EU, and are very close to having ones in Canada and the UK.
Postal rates vary by country, and we've experienced more lost packages in some countries than others. Along with 30-45 day shipping times for most international packages.
Having a distributor lets us guarantee inexpensive 2 or 3 day shipping, paperwork free VAT, and easy returns for a much smoother experience overall.
So it's either an excellent experience or no experience at all?
Yeah, I totally understand your point of view. Perhaps I would myself not ship to my own country due to the business issues you have mentioned. Still sucks.
I suppose you're right... "CUPS Filter" might be a better word than "Driver", but I'm not sure most people would be familiar with that term before reading the full post. It would not be hard to add this script into CUPS as a filter so that it's accessible to all programs. At the end of the day, that's all that a driver is: a filter + a PPD, and the PPD already exists.
Thank you! I went down that rabbit hole, but didn't have as detailed of a guide to follow, and quickly gave up. I might still try this so it can show up as a native printer in CUPS.
Completely agree. I tried scaling down the PDFs but Ghostscript on the Raspberry Pi is far slower than just scaling the 1200px wide PNG to 800px. I still got very readable barcodes, and a 100% delivery rate on my first batch of orders, even with that downsampling.
I could be wrong, but I don't think pixel perfect barcodes are necessary with modern scanners. The only thing going for ZPL is the ability to store the label data as simple ASCII text.
Other PiBox / KubeSail cofounder here. I put in an enormous amout of time into designing around components that can be easily sourced and are stocked regularly. A good example of this is the SL2.1A USB hub we use. The datasheet is in Chinese, but after testing it on several prototypes, we saw great reliability for 1/10th the cost. And its always in stock. Currently Microchip USB hub chips are either out of stock everywhere, or cost $5+, which doesn't make sense for low-cost Pi accessories.
The only issue we still face is sourcing actual Raspberry Pi compute modules. There's very little we have control over there.
We've done a lot of testing it doesn't get close to 15W of power, and also never trips the low voltage warning with the variety of 15W supplies I've used. We are including a 17.5W power supply with all boards to give it a little extra margin, just in case.
