Mastodawn

Hey Fedi, bit of printer advice please....

I'm looking for replacement label printers - we used to use Dymo 450 but they were EOL'd a while back and the new software's a bin-fire. Any subsequent Dymos have DRM'd consumables so we can't use non-Dymo labels, cos Dymo are bastards.

Ideally we want something with a wired LAN interface, or that I can hook into CUPS on a Pi to network-print given a PDF. Must be able to take 1" and 1.5" label rolls.

Anyone, please?

#fedihelp #askfedi #printers

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Neil Brown 1d ago

@jess

This might help:

https://neilzone.co.uk/2023/11/a-web-ui-for-label-creation-and-printing-on-a-brother-ql-710w-on-linux/

I have used a roll of pre-sized labels rather than a continuous roll of label paper, but the slicer works, so I suspect that this is "just" a config thing.

A web UI for label creation and printing on a Brother QL-710W on Linux

I posted recently about getting my Brother QL-710W working correctly on an Intel NUC running Debian 12.

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Neil Brown

@jess I wanted a web UI, but one can also print to it via a cli, as a mapped printer:

https://neilzone.co.uk/2023/11/getting-a-brother-ql-710w-label-printer-working-via-cups-on-debian/

Getting a Brother QL-710W label printer working via CUPS on Debian

I have a old-ish Brother QL-710W label printer. It has a Wi-Fi function, but I don't really want it connecting to the network itself. Instead, I wanted to conne...