Package Details: brother-ql800 3.1.5r0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/brother-ql800.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: brother-ql800
Description: LPR and CUPS driver for Brother QL-800 label printer
Upstream URL: https://support.brother.com
Licenses: custom
Submitter: kbabioch
Maintainer: kbabioch
Last Packager: kbabioch
Votes: 3
Popularity: 0.046243
First Submitted: 2017-11-17 09:58 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2019-07-21 21:39 (UTC)

Latest Comments

angryfog commented on 2022-06-23 12:33 (UTC)

Hi, I can't buy original DK1201 where I live, or at a very expensive price. Do you know if it will work with DK11201? Do you have a list of supported paper? I have tried with DK11208 but it doesn't work, the power led blink red and nothing happen. Thanks you a lot

mapfeld commented on 2020-10-24 13:33 (UTC)

Despite the issues with continuous tape, the brpapertoollpr_ql800 application (to add random paper sizes to the ppd) segfaults on the add command and does not a thing. Can anyone of you make it work?

danieltetraquark commented on 2020-05-07 14:17 (UTC)

@Matze I can confirm it. The issue simply is that brother's driver for Linux doesn't support it. It is somewhere hidden on brothers download page.

Matze commented on 2020-05-07 14:00 (UTC)

I have just bought the QL800 printer, installed this driver and I am successfully able to print to the sample tape for standard address (29mm x 90.3 mm, paper black on white).

However, I cannot get anything to work with the other sample tape (62mm continuous tape, red and black on white). I suspect this to be generally related to the continuous tape. I have added a custom paper size with sudo brpapertoollpr_ql800 -P ql -n test -w 62 -h 30 and I try to print with lpr -P ql -o PageSize=test template.pdf

Both commands succeed but the printer just goes into error mode (status blinking red).

I have tried several page size options, printing from several applications, nothing worked.

Using the brother-ql, a python command line utility for the printer (https://pypi.org/project/brother-ql/), I was able to print on 62mm tape (so this is not a printer issue).

Can anybody confirm (or deny) problems with continuous tape? Any ideas how to solve this?

danieltetraquark commented on 2020-01-12 17:40 (UTC) (edited on 2020-01-12 18:16 (UTC) by danieltetraquark)

@kbabioch I thought maybe you experienced something similar and found a solution…

EDIT: The tick box "enable rasterisation" did the trick.

kbabioch commented on 2020-01-12 17:20 (UTC)

Don't see how this is related to the package itself. When it works with glabels, it seems that the package is working fine.

danieltetraquark commented on 2020-01-11 22:04 (UTC)

I have the problem, when I print pdfs, that they are rotated by 90° and very very small. Printing with glabels works flawlessly.