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+# catprint
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+You know it, the weird cat printer from AliExpress etc.
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+This is an implementation of device discovery and the protocol in Rust. It comes with a `catprint` CLI util to feed the paper and print arbitrary images with different dithering algorithms available (or none/K-mean if you prefer).
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