probonopd / ptouch-770

Brother P-touch P700 label printer for Linux

Brother P-touch P700 label printer for Linux

Building

On Debian/Ubuntu-like systems, compile and install with

sudo apt install git make gcc libudev-dev python3-pil python-usb libusb-1.0-0 python3-gi gir1.2-gtk-3.0
git clone https://github.com/abelits/ptouch-770
cd ptouch-770/
make
strip ptouch-770-write
sudo cp ptouch-770-write ptouch-770-gui /usr/local/bin/

Usage (Python GTK3 GUI)

Usage (Python script)

The Python script can be used to print multi-line text like this:

./ptouch-770.py --text "test\nfoo"

Usage (raw tool)

Print a test image with

sudo ptouch-770-write tux-128px-bw.pbm

On the P700, this will result in the printer spitting out approximately 20mm of unprinted label, then cutting the label, then printing the Tux graphic on another approx. 20mm of label and cutting the label again.

To print some text using a 12mm TZe tape:

#!/bin/bash

# The following works for 12mm TZe tapes
convert -size x100 -gravity south -pointsize 72 caption:"Test" write.pbm
ptouch-770-write write.pbm 

ptouch-770's Issues

Checkbox (not) to invert colors

Checkbox (not) to invert colors

Generate AppImage

Generate AppImage

Font selection dropdown not functional

Font selection dropdown not functional

Support for other ptouch devices?

Hi! Excellent work here with the pt770.

Would it be possible to include support for PT300BT? And / or other p-touch devices?

Use ImageMagick?

Here's a quick example of how to generate a printable text label with ImageMagick:

convert -rotate 90 -pointsize 200 label:"Lorem Ipsum" -flop -bordercolor white -border 80x80 -resize 128x -monochrome label.png

Source: https://gist.github.com/stecman/ee1fd9a8b1b6f0fdd170ee87ba2ddafd#gistcomment-3040694

Rewrite everything in Python

• https://github.com/acamilo/Brother-PT-D600-Protocol-Analasys/blob/master/testprint.py shows how to open the device over USB for writing
• https://github.com/iwsfutcmd/ptouch and https://github.com/piksel/pytouch-cube/blob/master/labelmaker.py show how to print (that device is connected via serial but should be possible to combine with the above)

how to create the calibrate_12mm_tape.pbm files for 3,5 mm, 6 mm, 9 mm, 12 mm, 18 mm, 24 mm and (36 mm) tape sizes?

how to create the calibrate_12mm_tape.pbm files for 3,5 mm, 6 mm, 9 mm, 12 mm, 18 mm, 24 mm and (36 mm) tape sizes?

Cannot find any devices

Hi,

I modified the code a bit to see why the -write command does not find any devices...
081040d

I am clueless..
081040d#diff-fb3a22131052b740ab998957682ef9ed2e065e4ac16d6fafbf916a9f8d348290R511

xx is never printed...
There seem to be no devices listed with udev and I do not know how to proceed.
Do you have any idea?

Crop unprintable pixels in GUI preview

The graphic file that gets sent to the printer is cropped by a couple of pixels during printing.

We shoud also crop those unprintable pixels in GUI preview to make a more realistic preview.

ptouch-770/label.py

Line 16 in 8d65e79

self.unprintable = 20

printer not found

I've tried to run sudo ptouch-770-write tux-128px-bw.pbm but I get Brother PT-H500/P700/E500 printer not found. I'm using the printer p-touch p700. Do I need to install something? Thanks you in advance!

Support label sizes other than 12mm in GUI

Support label sizes other than 12mm in GUI

ValueError: Namespace Gtk not available

me@host:~$  Downloads/P-touch_P700_Labels-f8624b6.glibc2.17-x86_64.AppImage 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/.mount_P-toucvc7DVl/usr/bin//ptouch-770-gui", line 7, in <module>
    gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
  File "/tmp/.mount_P-toucvc7DVl/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 79, in require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace Gtk not available

What is it missing?