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?

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aschmitz

@jess I don't have actual experience since I stopped short of actually buying them, but I dug into this kind of thing (though with slightly wider labels - 2-3") and my understanding is that Zebra devices should be supported by CUPS in most versions, and don't use anything proprietary for materials. Old hardware is relatively cheap on eBay (compared to new, anyway), but connectivity options differ.