Update: We were able to successfully get our Brother QL-700 working with Windows10. There were two main steps. 1) In order to install the following Brother program, ensure that the Status lamp is lit Green and the Editor Lite lamp is off. In SendPro Online, when printing stamps on a Brother QL-800 or QL-700 label roll printer, the printer does not print. Cause The label roll may not be compatible with SendPro online. The Brother label printer (hereafter referred to as 'the machine') enables you to quickly and easily print custom labels created with the label software, P-touch Editor. Another choice is to ignore the Brother software entirely and use the QL-700 printer driver, which will work with any program you like. To print from Word for example, I simply defined a page size. As well as downloading Brother drivers, you can also access specific XML Paper Specification printer drivers, driver language switching tools, network connection repair tools, wireless setup helpers and a range of BRAdmin downloads. If your device is unavailable, please refer to support.brother.com for more information.

The brother ql 700 software is developing at a frantic pace. New versions of the software should be released several times a quarter and even several times a month.

Update for brother ql 700 software.

There are several reasons for this dynamic:
First, new technologies are emerging, as a result, the equipment is being improved and that, in turn, requires software changes.
Secondly, the needs of users are growing, requirements are increasing and the needs are changing for brother ql 700 software.
Therefore, it is necessary to monitor changes in the brother ql 700 software and to update it in a timely manner.

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Installation

brother_ql is available on the Python PackageIndex to be installed withpip:

The upgrade flag makes sure, you get the latest version of brother_qlbut also of its dependencies.

Alternatively, you can install the latest version from Github using:

This package was mainly created for use with Python 3. The essentialfunctionality, however, will also work with Python 2: the creation oflabel files.

In order to run the brother_ql command line utility, the directoryit resides in needs to be in the PATH envirnoment variable. On somesystems, the pip install command defaults to the --user flagresulting in the utility being put in the ~/.local/bin directory. Onthose systems, extending the path variable viaexport PATH='${PATH}:~/.local/bin' is needed.

Usage

The main user interface of this package is the command line toolbrother_ql.

There are some global options available such as –model and –printer.They can also be provided by environment variables (BROTHER_QL_MODELand BROTHER_QL_PRINTER).

The global options are followed by a command such as info orprint. The most important command is the print command and hereis its CLI signature:

So, printing an image file onto 62mm endless tape on a QL-710W labelprinter can be as easy as:

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

Pro Tip™: For the best results, use image files with the matchingpixel dimensions. Die-cut labels have to be in the exact pixeldimensions stated above. For endless label rolls, you can provide imagefiles with a pixel width as stated above. If you provide a file withdifferent dimensions when creating an endless label file, it will bescaled to fit the width.

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)

Notes:

The network backend doesn’t support reading back the printer state,currently. Failure such as wrong label type or end of label rollreached won’t be detected by this software.
The label printer should show up automatically as /dev/usb/lp0when connected. Please check the ownership (user, group) of this fileto be able to print as a regular user. Consider setting up a udev.rules file.
PyUSB is a Python wrapper allowing to implement USB communication inuserspace.
1. On Linux: install libusb1 as offered by your distribution:sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0 (Ubuntu, Debian),sudo zyppe in libusb-1_0-0 (OpenSUSE),sudo pacman -S libusb (Arch).
2. On Mac OS: Install Homebrew and theninstall libusb1 using: brew install libusb.
3. On Windows: downloadlibusb-win32-devel-filter-1.2.6.0.exefrom sourceforge and install it. After installing, you have to usethe “Filter Wizard” to setup a “device filter” for the labelprinter.

Legacy command line tools

For a long time, this project provided multiple command line tools, suchas brother_ql_create, brother_ql_print, brother_ql_analyze,and more. The overview of those tools can still be found in theLEGACYdocumentation. The use of these tools is now considered deprecated andthey will be removed in a future release.

Author

This software package was written by Philipp Klaus based on Brother’sdocumentation of its raster language and bas

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