On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 05:59:36AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I have asked about a Linux-capable label printer years ago, and never was able > to find a suitable one.
I use a Brother P-touch Cube Plus PT-P710BT at work that works well with original consumables as well as cheapie compatible generic stuff (the original tapes are nicer though, work every time while maybe 1 in 10 generic printer tapes is simply not usable). It has a weird commandline driver, that takes .png graphic files (and probably also can output text, never tried). https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/brother-ptouch-label-printer-on-linux This is a bit strange, but works well in practice, can also be scripted. These tapes are good for labelling equipment, probably no use for mailing labels. I print mailing labels by buying A4 sheets, with glabels (don't know if this is still maintained), on a inkjet printer. Inkjet is important, because if you peel of single labels and re-insert the sheet with some glue where a label is missing into a laser printer, the printer might be ruined (making dirty prints with streaks afterwards) https://help.gnome.org/users/glabels/stable/ /ralph
