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Is there a device you can recommend for printing (sticky) labels occasionally? I have a little Brother printer for those narrow little labels, one with a rubber keyboard, but would love something with sticky labels AND Linux connectivity. Something I could script when organizing my workspace, parts, ... to print the appropriate label.

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all2

2 days ago

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If your printer speaks ZPL, I might have a solution in the near future. I'm working on a ZPL server that handles printers (USB and network), label templates, CSV uploads (for batch printing labels), and the like.

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kelvie

1 day ago

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I've been using labelle (on github) with my Dymo labelmaker on Linux and it's been great.

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triyambakam

2 days ago

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Are these devices popular? My friend has two and is excited about them, but I have no exposure to them outside of that, so it's cool to see it pop up here.

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zihotki

2 days ago

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They are quite handy for some people. Once you get one, you'll start labeling all stuff. It's fun and also helps finding stuff faster.

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inferiorhuman

2 days ago

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Meanwhile once I bought a roll of blue painters' tape I started labeling freaking everything.

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alwa

2 days ago

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Painter’s tape is where I started, too… then I learned that gaffer’s tape comes in 1” rolls, and I’ve never looked back.

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inferiorhuman

18 hours ago

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I went with the 47 mm wide roll of tape because that was the easiest to find on the shelf at the big box store. 3M painters tape because it will generally come off cleanly well past its rated time of like two weeks.

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SoftTalker

2 days ago

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This is the way. Tape and a sharpie. No wires, drivers, usb, bluetooth, or wifi needed.

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trollbridge

2 days ago

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I assume part of the appeal is much cheaper label supplies than eg Epson?

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bayindirh

2 days ago

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The appeal is the ability to make decent labels which can withstand almost all indoor use and abuse for a reasonable amount of time.

I generally hand-label my boxes and things with specialized ink, and they hold very well even after a decade.

But if I'm going to label a spice jar or something gonna handled a lot, I use the printer. It's legible, resistant/resilient enough and reprinting things is easy.

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kotaKat

2 days ago

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I think part of it is that these printers end up offering so much more flexibility than your traditional labeler. Single-font single-line labels are boring, crummy built in excuses for emoji…

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saxenaabhi

2 days ago

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Does anyone know any good wifi printers receipt printers?

The only one I could find was Epson TM-30III but it's like 280E here.

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wolrah

2 days ago

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There are very few cases where there's a good reason for a printer of any kind to be on WiFi and even less for a receipt printer. If it's being used in a portable application with a laptop or mobile device that's what USB or Bluetooth are for. If it's sitting on a checkout counter and needs to be shared between multiple PCs that's what ethernet is for.

I'm not saying that there are absolutely no situations where WiFi is actually beneficial in a printer, but most of the time that a printer is connected to WiFi it's just making the printer less reliable than it could be if it was connected another way for no reason other than the user not liking wires.

A universal truth of networking: If it can be practically wired it should be wired. Wireless is for things that move and things that need to be put in weird spots it doesn't make sense to ever wire.

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SoftTalker

2 days ago

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A good reason is that it's easy. Turn it on, connect to wifi, done.

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messe

2 days ago

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That's not always an option, and doesn't answer the question.

Some people rent and can't simply run Ethernet everywhere.

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cachius

2 days ago

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Recently I learned there are Wi-Fi printers without Ethernet port!

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mk_stjames

2 days ago

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So, after seeing how cheap and available these Phomemo printers are and with this CUPS driver looking like a good option, my instinct as someone who also wants one of these sitting permanently on my home network as to appear all the time on all my machines' available printer options, is to get one and tether it permanently to a tiny linux SBC that has bluetooth and running the driver and print sharing. Like the OrangePi Zero 2w I have sitting unused in a drawer somewhere collecting dust.

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kasabali

2 days ago

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Is there a driver for the cat printer? :D

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haunter

2 days ago

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Yes, there actual multiple ones

https://github.com/NaitLee/Cat-Printer

https://github.com/NaitLee/kitty-printer