Brother cube

[wills721]

Trying to find a label printer that is supported by LPrint but one that when in the field is less likely to be disturbed. By this I mean, for instance, many Brother label printers have an 'editor lite' button on them. When this is pressed the USB connection is changed to work with their software on a PC rather than how LPrint normally interacts with the device. So, the fewer the buttons the better.

Came across these from brother which may fit
https://www.brother-usa.com/ptouch/cube-plus/home

Not sure if they are supported by LPrint? Perhaps someone can recommend a printer with ONLY a power button? Maybe even not a power button -- just plug it in?

Thanks,
Will

[michaelrsweet]

I have no experience with this particular printer. And since Brother doesn't document the languages used by their printers I'm not sure how easy it would be to develop a driver. From the technical capabilities I would guess they might use the same command set as the PT-series printers?

WRT a printer that doesn't have a lot of buttons, I don't have a good recommendation for that form factor/size of label.

[wills721]

@michaelrsweet FWIW I have googled these:
https://pypi.org/project/labelprinterkit/
https://github.com/piksel/pytouch-cube

[michaelrsweet]

OK, that looks like it uses the same command set as the other PT printers.

However, it also looks like it requires Bluetooth communications which PAPPL/LPrint current do not support...

[wills721]

No. I mean the printer has usb cable also

[wills721]

Here is the lsusb view

Bus 002 Device 028: ID 04f9:224a Brother Industries, Ltd PT-E720BT
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 [unknown]
bDeviceSubClass 0 [unknown]
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x04f9 Brother Industries, Ltd
idProduct 0x224a PT-E720BT
bcdDevice 1.00
iManufacturer 1 Brother
iProduct 2 PT-E720BT
iSerial 3 000M5G724014
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 0x0020
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0x80
(Bus Powered)
MaxPower 500mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 2
bInterfaceClass 7 Printer
bInterfaceSubClass 1 Printer
bInterfaceProtocol 2 Bidirectional
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes
bInterval 0
Device Status: 0x0000
(Bus Powered)

@michaelrsweet