pLabels

Create labels and print them on Brother P-touch® printers

Brother doesn't offer a labeling tool that runs on Linux, so I made it for them. This tool is based on ptouch-print and puts a Qt GUI on top.

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os	arch	CI Status
Linux	x86_64

Features

• Vector based editor
• Add text boxes and customize:
  • font family
  • rotation
  • style: bold, italic, underline
  • alignment: left, mid, right
  • position and scaling
• Print the label with/without dithering
• Save labels as .lbl file
• Supported label sizes (depends on printer): 4 mm, 6 mm, 9 mm, 12 mm, 18 mm, 24 mm, 36 mm
• Supported printers: PT-2420PC, PT-2450PC, PT-1950, PT-2700, PT-1230PC, PT-2430PC, PT-1230PC (PLite Mode), PT-2430PC ( PLite Mode), PT-2730, PT-H500, PT-E500, PT-P700, PT-P750W, PT-P700 (PLite Mode), PT-P750W (PLite Mode), PT-D410, PT-D450, PT-D460BT, PT-D600, PT-D610BT, PT-P710BT

Planned Features

• Add images
• Add icons, shapes
• Add barcodes
• More dithering algorithms
• Windows installer

Usage

Just running pLabels AppImage should be enough but...

• Make sure FUSE is installed.
• If nothing happens, run pLabels from terminal. The error message provides information about the problem.
• If the printer is not found, put this 71-brother-ptouch.rules udev rule file into the /etc/udev/rules.d dir