Python package for the raster language protocol of the Brother QL series label printers

This is a fork of https://github.com/pklaus/brother_ql by Philipp Klaus to enable faster updates. Check out https://github.com/inventree/inventree to see what I forked it for.

✓ means the device was verified by the original project

QL-500 (✓), QL-550 (✓), QL-560 (✓), QL-570 (✓), QL-580N QL-600 (✓), QL-650TD QL-700 (✓), QL-710W (✓), QL-720NW (✓) QL-800 (✓), QL-810W (✓), QL-820NWB (✓) QL-1050 (✓), QL-1060N (✓), QL-1100 (✓), QL-1110NWB, QL-1115NWB.

The available label names can be listed with brother_ql info labels:

 Name Printable px Description 12 106 12mm endless 12+17 306 12mm endless 18 234 18mm endless 29 306 29mm endless 38 413 38mm endless 50 554 50mm endless 54 590 54mm endless 62 696 62mm endless 62red 696 62mm endless (black/red/white) 102 1164 102mm endless 103 1200 104mm endless 104 1200 104mm endless 17x54 165 x 566 17mm x 54mm die-cut 17x87 165 x 956 17mm x 87mm die-cut 23x23 202 x 202 23mm x 23mm die-cut 29x42 306 x 425 29mm x 42mm die-cut 29x90 306 x 991 29mm x 90mm die-cut 39x90 413 x 991 38mm x 90mm die-cut 39x48 425 x 495 39mm x 48mm die-cut 52x29 578 x 271 52mm x 29mm die-cut 54x29 598 x 271 54mm x 29mm die-cut 60x86 672 x 954 60mm x 87mm die-cut 62x29 696 x 271 62mm x 29mm die-cut 62x100 696 x 1109 62mm x 100mm die-cut 102x51 1164 x 526 102mm x 51mm die-cut 102x152 1164 x 1660 102mm x 153mm die-cut 103x164 1200 x 1822 104mm x 164mm die-cut d12 94 x 94 12mm round die-cut d24 236 x 236 24mm round die-cut d58 618 x 618 58mm round die-cut pt12 - unknown - 12mm endless pt18 - unknown - 18mm endless pt24 - unknown - 24mm endless pt36 - unknown - 36mm endless 

There are multiple backends for connecting to the printer available (✔: supported, ✘: not supported):

Warning: when using one of the USB backends make sure the Editor Lite feature is turned off (if your model supports it), otherwise the USB Printer interface won't be detected.

v 1.3:

• Added detection of more media and commands to list and configure settings matmair#57
• Added new cli command for getting the status of printers matmair#53

v1.2:

• Remove support for Python 2 matmair#43 / matmair#45
• Added support for PT-E550W matmair#44
• Added label support for 12+17 matmair#42

v1.1:

• Support for Pillow 10.x matmair#37 v1.0:

• Renamed the package to brother_ql-inventree and added a release action matmair#16

• Added printer support for QL-600 matmair#17 , PT-P950NW matmair#6 , QL-1100, L-1100NWB, QL-1115NWB matmair#18

• Added label support for DK-1234 matmair#22 , 54x29 matmair#19 , DK22246 matmair#20, ...

Read the full old Readme here.