Does anyone have 4x6 thermal label printers working on Linux?
I have tried several thermal printers, zebra and off brands, none of them work on Linux, also tried arch, mint, manjaro, Ubuntu, and a few others.
Printers all detect and install, but never prints. I messed with CUPS settings, didnt help. I also tried LPrint. Didnt work. Nothing comes out any of the label printers. Not even the sample test labels.
Been using Linux for about 2 years full time. I only have windows to print shipping labels. I HATE using windows 10 and refuse to use 11. Now with no updates it’s the last thing I need to replace.
Usually for these devices the application generates ZPL printer data directly. What application are you thinking of using?
Zebra indicates that there are CUPS drivers available for their printers on “some Linux distributions”
https://supportcommunity.zebra.com/s/article/Adding-a-Zebra-Printer-in-a-CUPS-Printing-System?language=en_US
There’s also this GitHub repo which promises a better PPD file for Zebra printers.
https://github.com/mvnural/zebra-cups-driver
Most of The labels I print come directly from eBay. Sometimes I will have a PDF or JPG of a label to print. Those I click CTL-P and select the printer.
I did play with CUPS a ton, adding custom files, all that. Nothing worked. That’s why I bought 2 other no name label printers to see if those would work. But same issue.
I ended up buying a rollo printer, hopefully hay just works.
Thank you for your advice.
Zebra works with cups, the ppd files are included with cups