Requirements

sudo apt install build-essential libudev-dev printer-driver-dymo
npm install

Running

./bin/cmd.js: Run this at root. Detects devices being plugged in and installs them.

./bin/list.js: Run this as the renegade user. Lists devices that are both installed and plugged in.

Options

--debug: Enable debug output
--fake: Don't actually install anything
--fix-manual-copies: Set '*cupsManualCopies: True' in installed .ppd files
--use-usb-uri: Install printers using 'usb:' URIs intead of 'file:' URIs (experimental)
--no-check-cups: Don't check CUPS config for FileDevice line
--uninstall-all: Uninstall all CUPS printers installed by this program (not yet implemented)

The --fix-manual-copies argument is recommended if you use DYMO LabelWriter printers. It appears that printing multiple copies to the same printer is broken per default, but setting *cupsManualCopies: True in the .ppd file fixes this. This has to be done for every installed printer. This argument will automatically modify the .ppd files in this way for all installed printers. This assumed your installed .ppd files are in /etc/cups/ppd/.

Some DYMO printers have an issue where CUPS detects the same wrong serial number no matter which printer is plugged in. For this reason we default to using file: URIs for DYMO printers, but if you want to use usb: URIs then you can try the --use-usb-uri argument. This currently has not been sufficiently tested.

Warning: --uninstall-all uses /dev/printers/ to determine which printers were installed by this program. It assumes the last part of each file name before the .rules is the printer's serial number. If you have anything else in this directory that wasn't installed by this program but follows this pattern then it could be removed when running with this argument.

Setup

TODO installing CUPS and required commands.

CUPS has trouble handling some types of printers. No matter how many are plugged in, CUPS just sees them all as one printer and lists the wrong serial number. This has been seen to happen for some people with the DYMO LabelWriter 450. If you know you don't have a problem and really want to use usb: URIs for the installed DYMO printers then use the --use-usb-uri argument but know that it is experimental.

Otherwise edit /etc/cups/cups-files.conf to enable File device URIs by uncommenting and changing the FileDevice line:

FileDevice Yes

Then restart cups:

sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

Useful CUPS commands

To list all installed printers:

lpstat -v

List available paper sizes and options:

lpoptions -d DYMO-LabelWriter-450-Turbo -l

Print with custom paper size:

lpr -P DYMO-LabelWriter-450-Turbo -o media=Custom.20x39mm examples/example.png

To list all currently connected USB printers (not limited to installed printers):

lpinfo -v|grep "usb://"

To install a printer do e.g.:

sudo lpadmin -p "LabelWriter-450-turbo" -E -v usb://DYMO/LabelWriter%20450%20Turbo?serial=13011612335742 -m lw450t.ppd

To list all printer drivers (for the -m argument in lpadmin -p):

lpinfo -m

To remove a printer then do e.g:

sudo lpadmin -x LabelWriter-450-turbo

Copyright and License

License: GPLv3