diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d27193
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "vendor/tmux-printer"]
+	path = vendor/tmux-printer
+	url = https://github.com/morantron/tmux-printer
diff --git a/scripts/config.sh b/scripts/config.sh
index e469844..2f36286 100755
--- a/scripts/config.sh
+++ b/scripts/config.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 CONF_CURRENT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
 source $CONF_CURRENT_DIR/utils.sh
 
+TMUX_PRINTER="$CONF_CURRENT_DIR/../vendor/tmux-printer/tmux-printer"
+
 # TODO empty patterns are invalid
 function check_pattern() {
   echo "beep beep" | grep -e "$1" 2> /dev/null
@@ -30,7 +32,7 @@ function set_option() {
 }
 
 function process_format () {
-  echo -e "$($CONF_CURRENT_DIR/print.sh "$1")\e[0m"
+  echo -e "$($TMUX_PRINTER "$1")\e[0m"
 }
 
 PATTERNS_LIST=(
diff --git a/scripts/print.sh b/scripts/print.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index ccad91a..0000000
--- a/scripts/print.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-tmux_format="TMUX_PRINTER_FORMAT${1}TMUX_PRINTER_FORMAT_END"
-style_conf=$(mktemp "/tmp/tmux-printer.XXXXXX")
-empty_conf=$(mktemp "/tmp/tmux-printer.XXXXXX")
-
-touch "$empty_conf"
-echo "set -g status-left '$tmux_format'" >> "$style_conf"
-echo "set -g status-left-length 255" >> "$style_conf"
-echo "set -g status-right ''" >> "$style_conf"
-
-PREV_TMUX=$TMUX
-TMUX=''
-
-tmux -L tmux-printer-outer -f "$empty_conf" new -s tmux-printer-outer -d
-tmux -L tmux-printer-outer send-keys "TMUX='' tmux -L tmux-printer-inner -f \"$style_conf\""
-tmux -L tmux-printer-outer send-keys Enter
-sleep 0.1 # tmux wait?
-output=$( \
-  tmux -L tmux-printer-outer capture-pane -p -e | \
-  grep --color=never -Eo "TMUX_PRINTER_FORMAT.*TMUX_PRINTER_FORMAT_END" | \
-  sed "s/TMUX_PRINTER_FORMAT\(_END\)\?//g" \
-  )
-
-tmux -L tmux-printer-outer kill-server
-tmux -L tmux-printer-inner kill-server
-
-TMUX=$PREV_TMUX
-
-echo -ne "$output$(tput sgr0)"
diff --git a/vendor/tmux-printer b/vendor/tmux-printer
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..6574fde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/tmux-printer
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 6574fdea20746706992b0eb84e2c4e6f5991b14a