brother_ql

A Python package to control Brother QL label printers. It implements the raster language of those printers and allows you to send instruction files to your printer. In more details, the following is possible with this package. Create raster language files for the Brother label printers. They can be created from image files or programmatically in your own Python script. Print raster instruction files with your Brother label printer via different backends pyusb (works cross-platform) network (works cross-platform for WiFi/Ethernet-enabled printers) linux_kernel (works on Linux only; uses the /dev/usb/lp0 device handles) If your printer has an 'Editor Lite' mode, you need to disable it if you want to print via USB. Make sure that the corresponding LED is not lit by holding the button down until it turns off. The special feature of this package is that no printer driver is required for it to work.