DYMO Labelwriter 400: Raw Printing

[Sean Lamm]

I am trying to print to a dymo labelwriter 400.  I have tried the dymo driver as well as the generic / text only driver with the following basic functions.

function print() {

if (notReady()) { return; }

qz.append('Hello World!');

qz.print();

}

function printHTML() {

if (notReady()) { return; }

qz.appendHTML('Hello World');

qz.printHTML();

}

dymo driver:

print() function: data is sent to the printer but nothing prints

printHTML() function: prints successfully with added html closing tag

generic / text only driver:

both functions: data is sent to printer but nothing prints

I am curious why the qz.printHTML() works and the qz.print() does not with the dymo driver.  I would really like to be able to use raw printing with this printer. 

Thanks,

Sean

[Tres Finocchiaro]

Dymo label printers (to the best of my knowledge) do not support any raw languages.

I'm working on an HTML5 demo for a client that prints to 2.25 x 1.25 labels and can send you an advanced copy of our progress if interested.

If you can send the label size you are working with I can assist.

-Tres

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[Sean Lamm]

I would greatly appreciate that. My label size is .75 x 2.

Sean

[Tres Finocchiaro]

> My label size is .75 x 2.

Great.  I have several questions.  Please answer all of them.

1. Vertically or horizontally fed? (image attached)
2. Please provide the DYMO "page format" number that you use.  This is needed for my testing. (i.e. form 34434)
3. If vertical, will the text will be rotated 90 degrees?
4. Can you provide this rotation with HTML?
5. If you cannot provide this rotation with HTML, will you need the image flipped on it's side? (90 degrees)

-Tres

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[Tres Finocchiaro]

@Sean,

I put some time into this tonight and figured it out.

Attached is a html sample that should automatically print to a dymo label for you.  It includes enhancements to the html2canvas usage which work specifically well for printing labels.

Make sure your Dymo printer is configured to print to a 30330 label by default under printer settings.

I didn't have the exact label size, but the attached image should illustrate my success.

To achieve a (hopefully) scannable barcode I doubled the size of the conents of the web page, which QZ-PRINT automatically scales down to fit on the paper.  This seems to make the image more legible.

Let me know if this helps.

-Tres

- Tres.Fin...@gmail.com