Blueplate Printers

Routes print jobs from restaurants to Star CloudPRNT printers.

Connect a printer

  1. 1. Register the printer's MAC address in Directus under the restaurant's printers field.
  2. 2. In the printer's embedded web admin (visit its local IP), set the Server URL to:https://print.blueplate.ai/api/connect
  3. 3. Save and restart. The printer will poll for jobs (GET), report status (POST), and acknowledge completed jobs (DELETE) automatically.

The printer is identified by its MAC, sent via x-star-mac header, ?mac= query, or printerMac in the POST body.

Test a printer

Diagnose connection issues without digging through server logs. The diagnostic page generates a one-off URL — point the printer at it and every request streams in live with full headers and body.

  1. 1. Open the diagnostic page and copy the URL it shows.
  2. 2. In the printer's web admin, temporarily replace the Server URL with the diagnostic URL.
  3. 3. Restart the printer. Requests appear within ~1.5s. Click any row to inspect headers and body.
  4. 4. When done, restore the production Server URL on the printer.
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Sessions auto-expire after 30 minutes of inactivity.