inventree-brother-label-plugin

A label printing plugin for InvenTree, which provides support for the Brother label printers.

This plugin supports printing to some Brother label printers with network (wired or WiFi) support. Refer to the brother_label docs for a list of label printers which are directly supported.

Installation

Install this plugin manually as follows:

pip install inventree-brother-label-plugin

Or, add to your plugins.txt file to install automatically using the invoke install command:

inventree-brother-label-plugin

Debian / Ubuntu requirements

The following command can be used to install all OS-requirements on Debian / Ubuntu-based distros:

apt install build-essential libpoppler-cpp-dev pkg-config poppler-utils

You might also need the following Python packages:

pip install pdf-info python-poppler

Printing Options

The following details provide an overview of printing options which can be configured before printing labels.

• Media Size and type of the label media. Supported options are (not all labels are available on all printers): 12, 18, 29, 38, 50, 54, 62, 62red, 102, 103, 104, 17x54, 17x87, 23x23, 29x42, 29x90, 39x90, 39x48, 52x29, 54x29, 60x86, 62x29, 62x100, 102x51, 102x152, 103x164, d12, d24, d58, pt12, pt18, pt24, pt36

• Rotation Rotation angle, either 0, 90, 180 or 270 degrees.

• Copies Number of copies to print.

• Auto Cut (full-cut) Automatically cut labels after printing.

• Auto Cut Every (full-cut) Cut every n-th label.

• Auto Cut End (full-cut) Feed and cut after last label is printed.

• Half Cut Cut labels without cutting the backing, making it easier to remove the label backing.

Plugin Settings

The following list gives an overview of plugin settings. Also check out the brother-ql package for more information.

• IP Address If connected via TCP/IP, specify the IP address here.

• High Quality Print in high quality (required for some printers).

• Model Currently supported models are: 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-1100NWB, QL-1115NWB, PT-P750W, PT-P900W, PT-P950NW

• USB Device If connected via USB, specify the device identifier here (VENDOR_ID:PRODUCT_ID/SERIAL_NUMBER, e.g. from lsusb).

• Compression Set image compression (required for some printers).