brother_ql
brother_printer_fwupd
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brother_ql
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Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by NOT innovating
Another their Linux supported thermal printers. https://github.com/pklaus/brother_ql
It did take Time to stabilize the design, anything before the ql700 is clunky. But the ones I tried after have been Great
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Push the Green Button: Creating Event Gadgets with IoT and Serverless Architecture
The final step in our process is the physical output, the printed QR code that we hand to our event attendee. For this task, I had a Brother QL-500 label printer borrowed from the available equipment at the company. There's an open-source Python library on Github, brother_ql, that makes interacting with this printer incredibly straightforward from a Linux command line.
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check this out https://github.com/pklaus/brother_ql
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There is an unofficial driver for Brotherโs QL series of printers but I donโt know if there is a thermal printer in that lineup.
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https://github.com/sedrubal/brother_printer_fwupd/issues/9
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Brother printers now locking out non-OEM paraphernalia
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2015/11/updating-hl3040cn-firmware.html
I decided to poll my printer. I then noticed an OSS/python project to just handle it via a package. However, I noticed this issue:
https://github.com/sedrubal/brother_printer_fwupd/issues/9
Startled, I Googled... and the printer listed is an inkjet. For a second I was relieved, but then started to search for other issues, and found this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/s9b2eg/brother_mfc_firmware_update_nongenuine_toner_now/htm1vw4/
Not only is the above, post-sale firwmware update a change of what I understood to be Brother's historical policy, the method is beyond evil.
Brother seems to be apparently accepting the toner, but then purposefully making the print quality poorer.
I literally cannot think of something, product wise, more evil. It's one thing to say "We refuse to use 3rd party toner", and another to accept the toner, and then just purposefully print like garbage.
I was a happy HP customer for years, and only switched to Brother (which, by all accounts, is a much smaller / less renowned company) for the sole reason to not be vendor locked.
I will likely return this printer, but thought HN should know what Brother seems to be up to.
What are some alternatives?
python-escpos - Python library to manipulate ESC/POS printers
brother - Python wrapper for getting data from Brother laser and inkjet printers via snmp
OctoPrint-Enclosure - OctoPrint Enclosure Plugin
prometheus-enhanced-snmp-exporter - Enhanced prometheus SNMP exporter with multithreading support and variable SNMP pooling interval
aws-iot-device-client - The AWS IoT Device Client provides device-side functionality for AWS IoT Services.
aws-iot-tree-button - An innovative AWS IoT solution for ecological corporate giveaways
tapen - Print labels on Brother PTouch label printers with highly customizable HTML templates
aws-cdk - The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code