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Animated printer icon for Home Assistant

While printing the page feeds out and the print head moves; low ink shows a blinking red drop on the panel.

3 states: idle, printing and low ink. Part of the network icons in the Animara Full Pack.

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One time payment, 14 day refund. The free sampler has 12 icons and the same card.

Preview recording of the real artwork, about 2.5 seconds per state. The icon in the pack has no watermark.

States of the printer icon

The card picks the state from your entity, so the icon always shows what the printer is doing.

  • IdleResting state, shown when the device is off or idle.
  • Printing
  • Low ink

Which Home Assistant entities fit

  • Picked automatically when the entity or device name contains "printer", on switch, input_boolean, binary_sensor or sensor entities.
  • Any entity that is simply on or off, such as a switch or input_boolean: on shows printing, off shows idle. Entity states named like a state below (for example low_ink) are used directly.
  • Works with any entity whose state you map: pick this icon in the card and map your entity's own state words to these states with the card's states: option.

How to use it in Home Assistant

  1. Install the Animara card: one link install, HACS as a custom repository, or copy animara-card.js to /config/www.
  2. Edit your dashboard, choose Add card, then Animara.
  3. Pick your entity. Choose Printer in the Icon list if it is not detected automatically.
  4. Paste your Full Pack license key into the License key field once per dashboard.

Prefer YAML? This is all it takes:

type: custom:animara-card
entity: switch.printer
icon: printer

Mapping words yourself looks like this:

states:
  "on": low_ink

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Get the Full Pack · $24Free sampler on GitHub

One time payment, 14 day refund. The free sampler has 12 icons and the same card.