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matthiasbock / dymo-cups-drivers

Inofficial repository for Dymo's offical FOSS CUPS printer drivers for Linux
https://www.dymo.com/en-US/dymo-label-sdk-and-cups-drivers-for-linux-dymo-label-sdk-cups-linux-p--1
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Dymo LabelWriter 550 support #28

Open iw3her opened 1 year ago

iw3her commented 1 year ago

Please is there any work in progress about the Dymo LabelWriter 550 support? I've non find the way to use it with under Linux CUPS. Thanks in advance

matthiasbock commented 1 year ago

Please describe your issue in detail.

iw3her commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your answer. I've used several Label Writer 400 and 450 in the past, and they normally work fine as shared network printer with print servers like TP-Link TL-PS110U or a Raspberry print server based on CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) The new Label Writer 550 (you can't buy now the old models) seems to be very different and completly incompatible. It can work only from Windows 8 (or more recent operating system) https://www.dymo.com/compatibility-chart.html It can't work under the official LabelWriter Print Server: https://www.dymo.com/label-makers-printers/labelwriter-label-printers/dymo-labelwriter-print-server/SP_95509.html It works fine only as a local USB printer

For the network connections they offer a specific model called Label Writer 550 Turbo, with ethernet port.

Unfortunately at the moment I've received the Label Writer 550 (no Turbo - ethernet version) and I'm trying to share it in a local office network through a print server... The TL-PS110U doesn't work... may be that CUPS ( open source printing system developed) with a recent printer driver may works... When you define the USB printer in the CUPS server, you cant' find the more recent 550 driver and so I've tried to modify the PPD of the 450: https://github.com/kfprimm/dymo-cups-drivers/blob/master/ppd/lw450.ppd with simple changing inside "450" as "550" but it can't print even the sample page from the CUPS server. Localy on windows, adding the printer I use the right windows driver and I define a network connection for example http://192.168.1.45:631/printers/DYMO_LabelWriter_550 but it doesn't work. It is the same of configuration of the 450 under CUPS that it works I'm not so expert to understand the reason of the issue, but I think that if the Label Writer can work under linux with the right cups driver, maybe that it can works also as a shared printer under windows client. Thanks! Any suggestion is welcome!

iw3her commented 1 year ago

Dear Matthias, I have just see that the 550 is not in the supported devices list, but there are several files about 550 in the sources and so I can try compiling and installing the drivers! I will tell you any news!

melroy89 commented 3 months ago

I would also love to see Linux support for the LabelWriter 550! Maybe peek in their official driver? https://github.com/dymosoftware/Drivers

I notice that the following PR is already merged: https://github.com/matthiasbock/dymo-cups-drivers/pull/19

Does this mean there is support after all? If you why not update the "Supported devices" README section?