{"repo":"HenrikBengtsson/brother-ptouch-label-printer-on-linux","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/brother-ptouch-label-printer-on-linux","clone":"git clone https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/brother-ptouch-label-printer-on-linux.git","description":"How to print to a Brother P-touch (PT) label printer on Linux","language":"Lua","stars":248,"topics":["brother","cli","command-line","label-printer","linux","p-touch","documentation"],"license":"MIT","category":"cli-tools","readme_excerpt":"Use Brother P-touch Label Printer on Linux NOTE: These are my notes on how to use the ptouch-print tool. I am not the author of ptouch-print ( ) /Henrik 2024-05-04 These are my notes on how to use a Brother P-touch D450 ([PT-D450]) from Linux, which is connected via USB. They are written around the [ptouch-print] command-line tool for communicating with the label printer. Gist The label printer is connected to the computer via a USB A-to-Micro B cable. ptouch-print communicates with the printer directly over USB. There is no need to install printer drivers (but Ubuntu might still do so). ptouch-print can send a monochrome PNG file to the label printer. ptouch-print can generate a monochrome PNG file from a sequence of multi-line plain text, images, and padding command-line options. ptouch-print can send the sequence directly to the label printer, but it's hard to predict what it will look like. Better to always output to a PNG for preview. ptouch-print can handle multiple monochrome PNG files as input, e.g. either to be print one after each other or to output a new monochrome PNG file. You can add separation by adding --pad between each --image option. There will always be 20-30 mm of blank tape wasted at the very front of each print when using these printers. For the PT-D450, it's 23 mm. This is because the (manual) cutter is this distance away from the print head. It's physically impossible to avoid this and has nothing to do which printer software you use. To save label ta","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/HenrikBengtsson","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/HenrikBengtsson/brother-ptouch-label-printer-on-linux/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}