Brother QL Web v3.0.0

Highlights

• Brother VC-500W: the color label printer for ZINK tape of 9 to 50 mm prints text, codes, frames and photos in full color, borderless and at their exact length. It works over Wi-Fi and USB and is detected like the other printers, or configured as vc500w://<host>.
• While it prints, the label designer shows the stage of the job and the tape left. A label takes about 40 s, most of it to prepare and preheat. On a weak Wi-Fi, the printer panel suggests moving the printer closer to the router.
• Cutting: a full cut where a label is cut, a half cut between the others unless half cuts are off. "Never" is not offered, the printer would keep the labels until the next print. A cut label starts with a 9 mm tab, which the printer does not let us turn off.
• docs/vc500w.md has my measurements of the printer, docs/usbip.md explains how to use a USB printer plugged into another computer.

I tested the VC-500W with all five tapes over USB and Wi-Fi. If you have one, please tell in an issue how it prints for you. For its protocol I started from different sources online and worked out the rest on my printer.

Upgrading

The images are tagged :3.0.0, :3.0, :3 and :latest. :2 stays on v2.0.0.

For QL and P-touch printers one thing changes: on labels without red, red text, codes and frames are shown and printed in black.

In the API, color of a text line takes any color as #rrggbb for the tapes of the VC-500W. cut=none is refused for the VC-500W.

What's Changed

Changes

• Support the Brother VC-500W by @DL6ER in #189

Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v3.0.0