I’m new to Linux and i need help installing drivers for my labelwriter.
It is a LW650XL PRO i know it is a relabeled Aimo printer but i cant get it to work.
I tried installing the drivers from the original manufacturer but the executables are not working so i tried to manually install the pdd drivers but still no luck…
Anyone any ideas? This is the only thing that is stopping me to fully stop using windows.
I’m on fedora 44 workstation and the labelwriter is usb
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The install script is for an old Ubuntu install. Maybe contact the vendor and ask for an updated version?
But the script is not doing much besides copying the content of the ppds directory to /usr/share/cups/model/label/ and the filter program x86_64/rastertolabeltspl needs to be copied into /usr/lib/cups/filter/.
owner should be root:root and the filter must be executable chmod 755 rastertolabeltspl
sudo /usr/bin/install -v -o root -g root -m 755 --context="system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0" /path_to/LabelPrinter-2.3.1.001/x86_64/rastertolabeltspl /usr/lib/cups/filter/
restart cups daemon
sudo systemctl restart cups
and lpinfo -m |grep label should show the new PPDs
You don’t have to copy all PPDs, only the one PPD required by your label printer shoudl do the job.
From here you need to create a printer queue in cups selecting a PPD and device.
I maintain a free, open-source CUPS driver for exactly this class of printer —
TSPL label printers whose vendors only ship x86 binary filters:
GitHub - RunTheWall/tspl-cups-driver: Free open-source CUPS driver for TSPL/TSPL2 thermal label printers on Linux & Raspberry Pi (ARM) — HZD950, Munbyn, iDPRT, HPRT, Beeprt & more. Signed apt/dnf repos + one-command AirPrint. Built for free by constly.com · GitHub.
It’s a clean-room filter (no vendor
blobs), packaged for Fedora:
sudo curl -fsSL https://runthewall.github.io/tspl-cups-driver/rpm/tspl.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/tspl.repo
sudo dnf install tspl-cups-driver
sudo lpadmin -p Label -E -v tspl://auto -P /usr/share/ppd/tspl/tspl-label.ppd -o media=na_index-4x6_4x6in
(203 dpi model? add -o Resolution=203dpi.) Honesty note: I’ve bench-tested it on an
HZD950-PRO; your LW650XL is the same TSPL family but I haven’t had one on the bench —
if anything misbehaves, open a printer-report issue on the repo and I’ll sort it.