Meituan Thermal Printer Management Tool

Problem context

Stores and operations teams often need to send morning checklists, preparation tasks, and monthly inventory sheets to kitchen thermal printers. Hand-building ESC/POS payloads can easily miss centering, enlarged text, paper cutting, or Chinese encoding, while ad hoc scripts for scheduled reprints scatter across machines. This skill narrows the job to one concrete task: send consistently formatted task sheets to Meituan thermal printers over TCP Socket, and keep printers, templates, and scheduled jobs in one local workflow.

How it works

Core capabilities include:
- Printer management: maintain devices by IP, port, alias, and role; run connectivity checks; read and write local configuration, typically in config.json.
- Print jobs: confirm the target printer, then choose between one-off printing and scheduled printing, submit a title and body with time markers, invoke the print script, and report the result.
- Templates and schedules: the web admin UI can maintain preset templates such as morning checklists, closing lists, weekly reports, and monthly inventory sheets; scheduled jobs can trigger daily, weekly, or monthly and be exported to system-level schedulers so they run even if the web service is stopped.

Boundaries

This is best suited for printers on the same LAN as the workstation, using the standard 9100 port. Chinese text is handled with GB18030, and connection timeout is around 5 seconds by default. If the port is nonstandard, the device is offline, or the printer does not support Chinese thermal labels, verify the device configuration first.