What label printer do people use?

[afsabresfan]

I'm just getting started with Spoolman but I've already got some partial rolls of filament I want to sort through and label. I'm just curious what kind of label printer people are using. I've seen some generally referenced like "thermal printer", but I was curious if anyone is running a printer connected to a Windows machine that prints right from the Spoolman printer interface. Thanks!

[Donkie]

Personally I just use some A4 label paper on a regular laser printer. Works well enough for me

[afsabresfan]

I bought a Nelko PM220 on sale on Amazon. Took a little bit of work to get it set up correctly, but I got it to print really nice size labels! The only thing I can’t tell yet is whether or not the QR code is big enough, as I haven’t set up my reverse proxy yet. I’ll report back when that’s done.

The key to the PM220 is to force the computer to print directly to the printer, not using the spooler. It’s in the printer settings. Once you do that, it prints great!

[sdwilsh]

@afsabresfan, could you share more details about your setup for this?

[mfraser]

I have a Dymo Labelwriter 450 and am hoping to use that to print the labels now that I have set up OctoEverywhere.

[pdsccode]

Running a Brother P-Touch P750W here for quite some time. The 24mm labels are my go-to. Easy to setup, portable and compatible with every device I use.

[TheAner]

I bought recently Niimbot d11 and it comes with 60x12mm foiled stickers (you could buy different).
I created a label preset in spoolman for it and everything works well.

[Ken6432]

OK, thanks! I was hoping I missed some easy way to get them to print. I like the Niimbot, but I wish it was a bit more flexible to print things to

[Ken6432]

@TheAner - I managed to create a custom paper size in my print to PDF driver in Windows. Now I can print the labels to a PDF with a 60x12 page size. I can then import that PDF to the Niimbot printer software and print the labels. It works well, but it sure was a pain to configure

[TheAner]

@Ken6432

But why are you downloading it as a pdf instead of saving it as a image?

[Ken6432]

Images were not as clear from as the PDFs are

[TheAner]

That's why I bumped up resolution with the same proportions and now it's sharp

[Play13thStreet]

I use Label Paper A4 HERMA 10906, works perfect.

[mtabo]

I have a HPRT HT300, I print on 50x25 labels the images that Spoolman gives but they are not sharp, I would like to have support for ZPL but I don't have the time at the moment to implement it.