Hello Ben!
Ill get down to the nitty gritty.
Adafruit has a guide for this Thermal Paper (Receipt Paper) Printer Camera. Its a little dense for most and I feel you could do this justice.
Heres some Links to get you started!
https://learn.adafruit.com/instant-camera-using-raspberry-pi-and-thermal-printer/overview
https://hackaday.io/project/7176-polapi
Lets do it!
This will get some people rallied up, and some youtube views!