There was an article on using this printer in just the way you want in
Circuit Cellar about a year ago.  I don't have the issue on hand but they
may have an index on their web site for it.
Dave

At 08:38 AM 1/8/97 -0500, you wrote:
>hp makes a great thermal printer the hp82240b 'redeye' printer for use
>with the hp48 series calculator. the calculator communicates with the
>printer via infrared. it occured to me that the redeye would make a great
>printer/logger for small projects if a way could be found to convert
>serial (rs232) data from a microcontroller for example, into the ir
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