• Re: LaBella & Dedicated Label printers

    From Martin@21:1/5 to chris@cjemicros.co.uk on Thu Dec 2 14:00:45 2021
    In article <ant021338bbapErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>,
    Chris Evans (CJE/4D) <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:
    Rather hijacking this thread.

    Where can you get LaBella from?
    Google didn't help me.

    http://www.rayfavre.me.uk

    Does it support printing to modern label printers?

    If RISC OS supports printing to them, then I don't see why not.

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  • From Chris Evans (CJE/4D)@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 2 13:19:38 2021
    Rather hijacking this thread.

    Where can you get LaBella from?
    Google didn't help me.

    Does it support printing to modern label printers?

    If not anyone found a way on RISC OS to use modern label printers?

    Chris Evans

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  • From Chris Newman@21:1/5 to Chris Hughes on Thu Dec 2 14:49:04 2021
    In article <30058d9459.chris@mytarbis.plus.com>,
    Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:
    In message <ant021338bbapErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>
    "Chris Evans (CJE/4D)" <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:

    Rather hijacking this thread.

    Where can you get LaBella from?

    http://www.rayfavre.me.uk/dwapps.html

    Google didn't help me.

    searched for labella + RISC OS

    found the above

    Does it support printing to modern label printers?

    I have used it to print to a laser printer as well as an inkjet

    Agreed. Latest version 6.43 has been 32 bitted and works on my Pi4 with
    R5.28

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  • From Chris Hughes@21:1/5 to chris@cjemicros.co.uk on Thu Dec 2 14:19:52 2021
    In message <ant021338bbapErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>
    "Chris Evans (CJE/4D)" <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:

    Rather hijacking this thread.

    Where can you get LaBella from?

    http://www.rayfavre.me.uk/dwapps.html

    Google didn't help me.

    searched for labella + RISC OS

    found the above

    Does it support printing to modern label printers?

    I have used it to print to a laser printer as well as an inkjet



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    Chris Hughes

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  • From Paul Oates@21:1/5 to chris@cjemicros.co.uk on Thu Dec 2 15:21:52 2021
    Hi Chris


    In message <ant021338bbapErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>
    "Chris Evans (CJE/4D)" <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:

    Rather hijacking this thread.

    Where can you get LaBella from?
    Google didn't help me.



    It is on RComp's Plingstore.

    regards

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    oatespaul@btinternet.com

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  • From Adrian Crafer@21:1/5 to Chris Newman on Thu Dec 2 15:25:40 2021
    In message <59948fb1adcvjazz@waitrose.com>
    Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> wrote:

    In article <30058d9459.chris@mytarbis.plus.com>,
    Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:
    In message <ant021338bbapErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>
    "Chris Evans (CJE/4D)" <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:

    Rather hijacking this thread.

    Where can you get LaBella from?

    http://www.rayfavre.me.uk/dwapps.html

    Google didn't help me.

    searched for labella + RISC OS

    found the above

    Does it support printing to modern label printers?

    I have used it to print to a laser printer as well as an inkjet

    Agreed. Latest version 6.43 has been 32 bitted and works on my Pi4 with R5.28

    It is also available from PlingStore

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  • From Chris Newman@21:1/5 to Chris Newman on Thu Dec 2 17:30:15 2021
    In article <59948fb1adcvjazz@waitrose.com>,
    Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> wrote:
    In article <30058d9459.chris@mytarbis.plus.com>,
    Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:
    In message <ant021338bbapErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>
    "Chris Evans (CJE/4D)" <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:

    Rather hijacking this thread.

    Where can you get LaBella from?

    http://www.rayfavre.me.uk/dwapps.html

    Google didn't help me.

    searched for labella + RISC OS

    found the above

    Does it support printing to modern label printers?

    I have used it to print to a laser printer as well as an inkjet

    Agreed. Latest version 6.43 has been 32 bitted and works on my Pi4 with R5.28

    I may have to eat my words. Just tried printing a label. The graphic
    printed OK but none of the text.

    Labella 6.43 RISC OS 5.28 Pi4 . LaserJet6 printer driver. Samsung
    CLP620 nd laser printer USB wired to the Pi.

    Can't figure it out.

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    Chris Newman

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  • From Alan Griffin@21:1/5 to chris@cjemicros.co.uk on Thu Dec 2 14:32:11 2021
    In article <ant021338bbapErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>,
    Chris Evans (CJE/4D) <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:
    Rather hijacking this thread.

    Where can you get LaBella from?
    Google didn't help me.


    http://www.rayfavre.me.uk/dwapps.html

    Alan

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  • From Chris Evans (CJE/4D)@21:1/5 to URL:mailto:ajg@argonet.co.uk on Wed Dec 8 16:47:02 2021
    In article <59948e25efajg@argonet.co.uk>, Alan Griffin <URL:mailto:ajg@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
    In article <ant021338bbapErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>,
    Chris Evans (CJE/4D) <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:
    Rather hijacking this thread.

    Where can you get LaBella from?
    Google didn't help me.


    http://www.rayfavre.me.uk/dwapps.html

    Thanks for that

    In reply to:
    If not anyone found a way on RISC OS to use modern label printers?

    Chris H said
    I have used it to print to a laser printer as well as an inkjet

    It's a 'modern label printers' like Dymo LabelWriter, Brother QL-600B that
    have labels on a roll and you can print one at a time I'm looking for.

    I got some technical info from Dymo years ago. Its language is proprietary.

    I'm hoping some one makes one which uses PCL3, 5 or 6

    Chris Evans

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  • From M Harding@21:1/5 to chris@cjemicros.co.uk on Wed Dec 8 20:27:49 2021
    In article <ant08160272bpErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>,
    Chris Evans (CJE/4D) <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:
    In article <59948e25efajg@argonet.co.uk>, Alan Griffin <URL:mailto:ajg@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
    In article <ant021338bbapErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>,
    Chris Evans (CJE/4D) <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:
    Rather hijacking this thread.

    Where can you get LaBella from?
    Google didn't help me.


    http://www.rayfavre.me.uk/dwapps.html

    Thanks for that

    In reply to:
    If not anyone found a way on RISC OS to use modern label printers?

    Chris H said
    I have used it to print to a laser printer as well as an inkjet

    It's a 'modern label printers' like Dymo LabelWriter, Brother
    QL-600B that have labels on a roll and you can print one at a time
    I'm looking for.

    Like the tractor-feed labels of old, perhaps? If that idea were
    coupled with the marvellous !Organizer, might that lead to a solution?
    Are tractor-feed printers still around?

    Yes I'm out of my depth but trying to think laterally, because way,
    way back I recall a unit (was it in ROM for the BBC Master, perhaps?)
    someone had created a system allowing me to print individual address
    labels or several together. Ah! the good old days when WD40
    rejuvenated the ink for those printers.

    I got some technical info from Dymo years ago. Its language is
    proprietary.

    I'm hoping some one makes one which uses PCL3, 5 or 6

    Michael Harding
    Rev. Preb. M.D. Harding riscos@mdharding.org.uk

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  • From Harriet Bazley@21:1/5 to M Harding on Wed Dec 8 22:16:27 2021
    On 8 Dec 2021 as I do recall,
    M Harding wrote:

    In article <ant08160272bpErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>,
    Chris Evans (CJE/4D) <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:

    [snip]

    It's a 'modern label printers' like Dymo LabelWriter, Brother
    QL-600B that have labels on a roll and you can print one at a time
    I'm looking for.

    Like the tractor-feed labels of old, perhaps? If that idea were
    coupled with the marvellous !Organizer, might that lead to a solution?
    Are tractor-feed printers still around?

    Tractor-feed printers simply worked by printing a predefined number of fixed-height lines and then having the program doing the printing issue
    a form feed character to advance to the start of the next form - as you
    could deduce from the fact that if you got the page length wrong then
    the printer would quite happily print over the perforations!

    Modern label printers seem to have some kind of detector that will
    actually identify the edge of the label as it passes through the
    machine.

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    Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely

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  • From charles@21:1/5 to Harriet Bazley on Thu Dec 9 09:07:53 2021
    In article <19abcf9759.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>,
    Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:
    On 8 Dec 2021 as I do recall,
    M Harding wrote:

    In article <ant08160272bpErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>,
    Chris Evans (CJE/4D) <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:

    [snip]

    It's a 'modern label printers' like Dymo LabelWriter, Brother
    QL-600B that have labels on a roll and you can print one at a time
    I'm looking for.

    Like the tractor-feed labels of old, perhaps? If that idea were
    coupled with the marvellous !Organizer, might that lead to a solution?
    Are tractor-feed printers still around?

    Tractor-feed printers simply worked by printing a predefined number of fixed-height lines and then having the program doing the printing issue
    a form feed character to advance to the start of the next form - as you
    could deduce from the fact that if you got the page length wrong then
    the printer would quite happily print over the perforations!

    Modern label printers seem to have some kind of detector that will
    actually identify the edge of the label as it passes through the
    machine.

    The backing paper is marked,

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    from KT24 in Surrey, England
    "I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

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  • From Chris Newman@21:1/5 to cvjazz@waitrose.com on Thu Dec 16 13:57:48 2021
    In article <59949e7343cvjazz@waitrose.com>, Chris Newman
    <cvjazz@waitrose.com> wrote:

    <snip>
    I have used it to print to a laser printer as well as an inkjet

    Agreed. Latest version 6.43 has been 32 bitted and works on my Pi4
    with R5.28

    I may have to eat my words. Just tried printing a label. The graphic
    printed OK but none of the text.

    Labella 6.43 RISC OS 5.28 Pi4 . LaserJet6 printer driver. Samsung
    CLP620 nd laser printer USB wired to the Pi.

    More info. I've discovered that if I unselect "Print graphic?" on the
    Printing set-up & preview window the text prints OK. It obviously can't
    cope with multi-tasking. Bit like me some days.

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