Re^3: using Brother QL-570 printer with Perl

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.

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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]