Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: brother_ql-inventree
Version: 1.0a1
Summary: Python package to talk to Brother QL label printers
Author-email: Philipp Klaus <philipp.l.klaus@web.de>
License: GPL
Project-URL: repository, https://github.com/pklaus/brother_ql-inventree
Keywords: Brother,QL-500,QL-550,QL-560,QL-570,QL-600,QL-700,QL-710W,QL-720NW,QL-800,QL-810W,QL-820NWB,QL-1050,QL-1060N,QL-1100,QL-1100NWB,QL-1115NWB
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+)
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
Classifier: Topic :: System :: Hardware :: Hardware Drivers
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE

# brother_ql-inventree

Python package for the raster language protocol of the Brother QL series label printers


## FORK NOTICE

This is a fork of https://github.com/pklaus/brother_ql by [Philipp Klaus](https://github.com/pklaus) to enable updates to the sparsely unmaintained upstream project.
Check out https://github.com/inventree/inventree to see what I forked it for.

## Verified models
### Verified devices

✓ means the device was verified by the original project

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.

### Verified labels

The available label names can be listed with `brother_ql info labels`:

     Name      Printable px   Description
     12         106           12mm endless
     29         306           29mm endless
     38         413           38mm endless
     50         554           50mm endless
     54         590           54mm endless
     62         696           62mm endless
     102       1164           102mm endless
     103       1200           103mm endless
     104       1200           104mm endless
     17x54      165 x  566    17mm x 54mm die-cut
     17x87      165 x  956    17mm x 87mm die-cut
     23x23      202 x  202    23mm x 23mm die-cut
     29x42      306 x  425    29mm x 42mm die-cut
     29x90      306 x  991    29mm x 90mm die-cut
     39x90      413 x  991    38mm x 90mm die-cut
     39x48      425 x  495    39mm x 48mm die-cut
     52x29      578 x  271    52mm x 29mm die-cut
     54x29      598 x  271    54mm x 29mm die-cut
     62x29      696 x  271    62mm x 29mm die-cut
     62x100     696 x 1109    62mm x 100mm die-cut
     102x51    1164 x  526    102mm x 51mm die-cut
     102x152   1164 x 1660    102mm x 153mm die-cut
     103x164   1200 x 1822    103mm x 164mm die-cut
     d12         94 x   94    12mm round die-cut
     d24        236 x  236    24mm round die-cut
     d58        618 x  618    58mm round die-cut

### Backends

There are multiple backends for connecting to the printer available (✔: supported, ✘: not supported):

Backend | Kind | Linux | Mac OS | Windows
-------|-------|---------|---------|--------
network (1) | TCP | ✔ | ✔ | ✔
linux\_kernel | USB | ✔ (2) | ✘ | ✘
pyusb (3) | USB | ✔ (3.1) | ✔ (3.2) | ✔ (3.3)

## Significant Changes:
- Renamed the package to `brother_ql-inventree`
- Added a release action

Read the full old Readme [here](https://github.com/matmair/brother_ql-inventree/blob/cleanup/OLD_README.md).
