CentOS - Aug 2010 - [OT] Label Printer Recommendations

Greetings Folks,
 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.

TIA

Colin.

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.

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