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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Roger BW 😷1d ago

@jess I'm still using Dymo 4xx printers (especially the 4XL for address labels), ebay mostly, the thing that apparently breaks is the plastic spool holder and you can 3d print that.

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Jessie Rowbum

@RogerBW Trouble is we need some more of them, and it's not really a sustainable model to rely heavily on EOL'd items (plus no security updates which we need to be able to show).

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Roger BW 😷14h ago

@jess I do see your point; my needs are different (driving them from Linux rather than via the official software for a start).