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.

  • balsoft@lemmy.ml
    28·
    1 day ago

    In my experience:

    1. All printers are pain. This is a sad fact of computers.
    2. If it detects&gets recognized in CUPS, you can usually fiddle with it and make it work eventually.
    3. If it works on one distro, there will be some way to hack it enough for it to work on all distros.
    • mastertigurius@lemmy.world
      10·
      24 hours ago

      I’m responsible for print in my company. Printers are spawned from Satan’s sphincter and only want to see humanity suffer.