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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@jess

I've been using Zebra label printers for over a decade, but they're more expensive. The newest that I have is a ZD421 which is much nicer than the older LP-2844. I use them over Ethernet or USB, direct thermal or thermal transfer, and print from PDFs through Ghostscript (on Windows) or sometimes directly with the EPL/ZPL2 languages. Some of them supported multiple roll sizes right away, but it looks like the ZD421 uses 1" rolls and might need an adapter for 1.5" (I don't have it with me to check, but I see that they're selling adapters online).