Re: Label-printers for CUPS/Linux?

2011-08-02 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 07/14/2011 03:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: So, I'm looking for a label-printer that will work with my Linux machine, and that can print arbitrary graphics rather than just text or bar-codes. I have a Dymo Labelwriter 330 Turbo that works with glabels. I'm not sure if I've ever tried

Re: Label-printers for CUPS/Linux?

2011-07-17 Thread Jon maddog Hall
You'll throw away a sheet or four, working out alignment issues, I usually print on a regular sheet of paper to get my alignment problems fixed, holding the regular sheet of paper over the labels to see if the printing aligns. Open Office Writer has pretty good support for Avery and other

Label-printers for CUPS/Linux?

2011-07-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
I'm looking at possibly getting a label-printer to hook up to one of my Debian machines, and hoping that maybe someone here can give me some guidance because (1) I've never had a PC-driven label-printer and (2) I might be doing something unusual...: I want to use libvisualid to generate tags to

Re: Label-printers for CUPS/Linux?

2011-07-14 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
If by party-guests, you mean something that occurs a handful of times, I'd probably suggest just using a regular printer, and labels such as you'd find at Staples. A real label printer usually uses thermal paper, and costs a pretty penny. Additionally, drivers can be... interesting. (Though I

Re: Label-printers for CUPS/Linux?

2011-07-14 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Addendum: Use Kbarcode and you probably won't even have to work out alignment issues so much. Works the first time every time for me. --DTVZ On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: If by party-guests, you mean something that occurs a handful of times, I'd

Re: Label-printers for CUPS/Linux?

2011-07-14 Thread Bruce Dawson
Maybe a decade or so ago, I wrote a driver for a label printer, then re-wrote it a year later because the original printer died and I had to replace it with that year's model, which died about 2 years later. I would hope things have stabilized a bit since then. BTW: from experience, sticky labels