[CentOS] [OT] Label Printer Recommendations

[Chris Geldenhuis]

Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> On 28 August 2010 12:52, Colin Coles <colin at wemoto.com> wrote:
>   
>>  I am after any recommendations or experiences using Label printers to print
>> barcodes with CentOS, we currently using Star TSP700's but they're not clear
>> enough for the scanners we have. There seems to be plenty of choice but not
>> much Linux support going on, 'Never had anyone ask for Linux drivers
>> before..' seems to be the most common answer when trying to buy. I have also
>> tried a Brother P-Touch QL-550 but can't seem to get that to print at all
>> using the Foomatic drivers available online.
>>     
> Zebra printers work for us but we generate ZPL output ourselves and a
> raw queue is good enough for our purposes. I have to say the CUPS in
> CentOS5/Upstream is not very good at printing to Zebra printers using
> ZPL. More upto date CUPS does a better job, I had more success with
> latest SLES and Ubuntu compared to CentOS/upstream.
>
>   
We also use Zebra printers, they produce a high quality bar code. We 
also generate the ZPL output and print using a raw print queue.

ChrisG