After researching stuff I decided to skip the Dymo stuff and went with Rollo. It's so godsend nice, I can just shove it into the closet and print from any computer in the network.
There is no software to install, it can print from literally any app. Wifi QR codes? Print it and stick it on anything. Instructions to use an appliance or recipes? Print it. Freaking love it. One more thing about the Rollo label printer is that they have some sort of deal with USPS so it's always cheaper to print the label from their "shipping manager" web interface.
I haven't even shipped 30 packages from the time I got it two years ago and the printer already made the money I paid for it back. TMWNN 13 days ago parent next [—].
I do something similar with my non-Rollo, generic model that a half dozen generic Chinese brands sell on Amazon USB label printer. One issue I have found is that when set in greyscale mode, the conversion from color to greyscale doesn't work quite right. While visible in places such as the eBay logo on mailing labels printed from there, even black-and-white text and barcodes get smudged. Meanwhile I print with the driver set to no greyscale.
TMWNN 12 days ago root parent next [—]. Thanks : reply. Brother has some free software to design label templates which you can then upload to QL printers. Then you can use their control language over TCP to print labels filling the fields you defined in the template with data; the printer can even generate a large number of barcodes this way. The barcodes even work at pretty small sizes, much smaller than if you were generating graphic barcodes and sending them as bitmaps to the printer.
Probably because the rasterization of the barcodes is optimized by the printer for the printer. The software is janky and their protocol is unidirectional no way to tell if it printed a given label or ran out of paper, so you have to account for that in your software , but it's very easy to get it to work and when it works it really works.
And it's pretty much unbeatable for cost. I rather love my Brother QLW. WiFi, with airprint, and you can buy like 20 rolls of sticky thermal labels for it for super cheap.
I just bought a second one! Where do you get super cheap label rolls? Why do you need a special printer? Can't you just put label stock in a regular printer? If you're a small-volume user, a label printer might not have a good payback time - but it avoids throwing away an entire page of labels when you want a single label.
If you're labelling things in medium volume, like items in data centre racks, then changing the paper in the office printer is a hassle, and making sure no-one else prints on your labels by mistake is a hassle, and getting the text to align with the labels can be a hassle too. None of those is impossible, but hand-writing a label will be a lot easier.
If you want to have professional-looking printed labels, a label printer is the right tool for the job. If you're running a higher throughput operation like ebay order fulfilment, printing labels one at a time can simplify your processes - a worker who only has one order and one label can't get things crossed over. At the same time, serious label printers can offer thermal printing no toner or ink to replace , huge reels of labels, automatic removal of backing material, and so on.
I use it twice a month and for that frequency it's absolutely perfect. Very useful to have somewhere in a drawer. I have that one too. OJFord 13 days ago root parent prev next [—].
At some point I realised the only thing I printed was Amazon return labels, and a thermal label printer was more suited to the job no ink to dry or run out and need replacing so that's what I got. You can get A4 or US letter I assume or whatever sheets of labels for a 'regular' printer yes, but that's honestly not as convenient as a roll, especially a continuous roll where it prints to whatever length and then chops off.
Especially if your use is occasional, don't want to print a whole sheet at once - and even if you do, I don't know how good the tooling is for laying out an A4 sheet of pre-cut labels with a different address in each one?
You can, but if you need a one-of label or even just a handful, setting that up on a normal printer is a chore, special paper, label offset, counting already used labels, etc. Label printers feed with rolls, which makes it easy to print and cut to size automatically depending on if the roll is continuous or individual stickers.
I have a Brother QL which others have remarked in this thread as well. It has WiFi and everything, trivial to just create a label from your phone or computer. Thanks for posting! I'd prefer a label printer which just prints strips of text, not those full-size labels.
Strips are more versatile. And if you want to print more than one line, just print a bunch of strips. This is a fun trick. But then the PI works to print from Apple, Android, Chromebook, Windows -- desktop, tablet, phoen -- like whatever hardware the store already has -- PI is super amazing for getting a reasonable system ie: Debian in a cheap way when the client already has a mixed variety pack of hardware.
Thanks Jason!! HeavenFox 13 days ago prev next [—]. My family printer was bought in I parted with it when I left for college. After getting by with school printer, office printer and public printer in my apartment building, I finally bought my own after the pandemic. Oh boy are modern printer marvelous. While I am a big fan of reducing e-waste, if I had an old printer and use it with some frequency, I would seriously consider upgrading, now that I know what I am missing out : reply.
My experience with printers was always that Brother ones were a bit of a standout in the consumer space, so your experience might not be representative of the whole consumer market!
I haven't bought any printers in years though so maybe things in general have got better. Just to piggyback on this comment: whatever you do, don't get a Samsung. I have a Samsung printer, and the Wifi just stopped working. As in, it would lose its settings for no reason. Currently I've given up on trying to fix it, and put the PDFs on a thumb drive and walk over to the printer to print.
It is painfully slow. I hate this printer. If I hadn't bought new toner cartridges for it last year, I would have gotten rid of it, the PoS. I was super tempted by a Brother printer but ultimately went for a more expensive hp one. The thing is, hp driver support in linux is just the best, hands down. I got a Canon image class laser printer a few weeks ago. So far, so good. I intend to keep it for years and am looking forward to not having to deal with faded and smeary prints like with inkjets.
Which model is this? The exact model number changes over time whenever they introduce the next generation. I'm sure if you need color printing they have an option for that too for a bit more money.
There are two options with different model numbers and a small price difference, one has a basic multi-character LCD display and one has a touchscreen apparently with a faster processor, since the touchscreen one is rated for a few more pages per minute. I purchased the LCD display one around 2 years ago, can't remember the model number of that one, and then gave that to someone else and got the HL-LDW a few months ago.
Linux support is pretty good. Was pretty easy. Make sure the model has generic drum which also has the waste toner container built in and toner cartridges. Offhand TN and DR were the generic Brother toner and drum parts that everyone has a generic version of for cheap. HeavenFox 13 days ago root parent prev next [—]. I got the LDW. Granted it's by no means small, compared to the old HP monstrosity I'm used to it feels tiny reply.
I have an old USB laser printer that used to have an rpi print server to make it 'networked'. Then I installed an apple airport extreme next to it, and figured I could use the USB port on the airport to network it instead.
Which it does, but this only effectively makes it USB-over-IP, which works fine for Windows machines, but most 'modern' devices phones, tablets, chromebooks can't talk to it for lack of driver interface.
So now the house main RPi server in another part of the house acts as a print server CUPS, mDNS, etc and flings those packets up to the airport, which sends them to the printer. But works pretty well, despite the seemingly needless complexity. It's remarkable when Linux works better with hardware than Windows. I have an old HP Laser Jet for which Windows no longer has drivers, but Linux does, and as an added bonus it simply shows up on other Linux machines and on iOS devices as well - no set up required at all.
Paraphrasing Microsoft's old motto about Lotus Notes: "It ain't done until your old printer doesn't run. I know it won't happen because of some major vendor using functionality from Windows 3. Maybe their Universal Print initiative will help, but that requires a connector or a new printer to work. Ironic that Windows doesn't work well with a printer using a Unix interface? Windows works out of the box with older "Unix printer interfaces" -- it has a built in driver for lpd printers.
I use it, because my printer setup is a raspberry pi with lprng rather than cups. Ironic that everything but Windows works fine with zero setup.
And because the set-up is onerous but relatively straighforward to someone technical, I'm sure they could easily make it automatic. They just choose not to. God forbid HP makes a few dollars less from their cash cow, or MS engineer gets distracted from rearranging toolbar buttons needlessly for the umpteenth time. Can't have that. It allows you to configure a lot of settings to include networking before even installing the OS to the sd card.
Heads up: the raspberry pi Imager fits my definition of spyware it silently transmits your activity off-device without consent or even notification.
Block its phone-home with Little Snitch or LuLu. FlagsAreFun 13 days ago parent prev next [—]. I was unaware of the advanced menu, thanks for the heads up. Could have used this last week with my new Pi Zero 2 W reply.
AbhyudayaSharma 13 days ago prev next [—]. This reminds me of something I did a few years ago. I had an old printer for which the drivers did not work properly on Windows.
You just configure TCP port and usb device to be used. You need to configure the printer on the client tho. Use your local wireless network to connect your Android device to your Brother printer or all-in-one.
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