inventree-brother-plugin

A label printing plugin for InvenTree, which provides support for the Brother label printers.

This plugin supports printing to some Brother label printers with network (wired or WiFi) support. Refer to the brother_ql docs for a list of label printers which are directly supported.

Installation

Important

For InvenTree<0.16 use this package with version 0.9.0

Install this plugin manually as follows:

pip install inventree-brother-plugin

Or, add to your plugins.txt file to install automatically using the invoke install command:

inventree-brother-plugin

Now open your InvenTree's "Admin Center > Plugins" page to activate the plugin. Next, read below for instructions on setting up a printer via "Admin Center > Machines".

Debian / Ubuntu requirements

The following command can be used to install all OS-requirements on Debian / Ubuntu-based distros:

apt install build-essential libpoppler-cpp-dev pkg-config poppler-utils

You might also need the following Python packages:

pip install pdf-info python-poppler

Setup a machine instance for a Brother Label Printer

This plugin provides a driver for the machine registry in InvenTree, where multiple instances of this driver can be set up for each physical label printer you want to connect to. Each machine has its own individual configuration set.

To set up a new machine, go to "Admin Center > Machines" and hit the "+" button. Now choose a name for this specific printer, select "Label Printer" as machine type and "Brother Label Printer Driver" as a driver, then submit. The new printer will now be listed in the machines table. To configure the printer, click on its line to open the "Machine detail" panel where you can set the "Driver Settings" to match your label printer.

Configuration Options

The following list gives an overview of the available settings. Also check out the brother-ql package for more information.

• Printer Model Currently supported models are: QL-500, QL-550, QL-560, QL-570, QL-580N, QL-600, QL-650TD, QL-700, QL-710W, QL-720NW, QL-800, QL-810W, QL-820NWB, QL-1050, QL-1060N, QL-1100, QL-1100NWB, QL-1115NWB, PT-P750W, PT-P900W, PT-P950NW

• Label Media Size and type of the label media. Supported options are (not all labels are available on all printers): 12, 18, 29, 38, 50, 54, 62, 62red, 102, 103, 104, 17x54, 17x87, 23x23, 29x42, 29x90, 39x90, 39x48, 52x29, 54x29, 60x86, 62x29, 62x100, 102x51, 102x152, 103x164, d12, d24, d58, pt12, pt18, pt24, pt36

• IP Address If connected via TCP/IP, specify the IP address here.

• USB Device If connected via USB, specify the device identifier here (VENDOR_ID:PRODUCT_ID/SERIAL_NUMBER, e.g. from lsusb).

• Auto Cut Cut label after printing.

• Rotation Rotation angle, either 0, 90, 180 or 270 degrees.

• Compression Set image compression (required for some printers).

• High Quality Print in high quality (required for some printers).