Re^2: using Brother QL-570 printer with Perl

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Re^3: using Brother QL-570 printer with Perl by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 03, 2011 at 15:43 UTC
Is Linux a supported OS for this printer? Also note that this is Perlmonks, not Linuxmonks. If your printer has no driver already, it's highly unlikely that somebody will write a printer driver in Perl. My suggestion is to either first get the setup working on Windows and then worry about how to make the setup work under Linux (if ever), or to first buy hardware that has vendor support for Linux, and then work from there.	[reply]
Re^4: using Brother QL-570 printer with Perl by Bruce32903 (Scribe) on Aug 03, 2011 at 16:04 UTC
The printer works very well when printing from Open Office in Linux.	[reply]
Re^3: using Brother QL-570 printer with Perl by dasgar (Priest) on Aug 03, 2011 at 16:03 UTC
When asking for help with communicating with devices, it's usually a good idea to mention which OS you're working with. Since Brother's website was primarily listing Windows stuff for your device, I made the assumption that you were on Windows. Doing a quick Google search on "Brother QL-570 linux" yielded this link: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html I'm not very experienced with Linux, but I think that if you're able to manually print to the device from the terminal (lpr command?), it should be easy to issue a system call from Perl to do the same. Also, on that page, one of the links describes how to print from OpenOffice and Gimp. If you can find a way to control those programs from Perl, that should give you another route to go.	[reply]
Re^4: using Brother QL-570 printer with Perl by Bruce32903 (Scribe) on Aug 03, 2011 at 16:13 UTC
It was a bad error on my part not to include in my initial posting that I am using Ubuntu 9.04 and that the printer has worked well for about a year when printing from Open Office. Sorry, Bruce	[reply]