Label-printers for CUPS/Linux?

[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 did
notice Zebra listed the last time I did a CUPS install.)

Nutshell version: unless you're running an entertainment business, and
this is something that will be occurring with great regularity, just hit
Staples, and use some sticky labels.  You'll throw away a sheet or four,
working out alignment issues, but then you'll be able to run off as many
as you want pretty quickly.  If you *are* running an entertainment
business (e.g., a bar), then a label printer will definitely save you
money... in the long run.

$.02,

-Ken


On Thu, July 14, 2011 3:00 pm, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> 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 keep my
> party-guests' drink-cups straight. If I can just print the glyphs directly
> onto smallish, sticky paper labels, then then the whole thing is
> straightforward.
>
> 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.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
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