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#773 in Hardware support
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Brother P-Touch Raster Driver (and utility)
Brother P-Touch Label-Maker Raster Driver for PT-E550W/P750W/P710BT
devices.
Status
Extremely alpha, tested only on the PT-P710BT
, API subject to change
Usage
Utility
Install with cargo install ptouch
or grab the latest release here.
The utility supports a set of basic subcommands:
ptouch-util [SUBCOMMAND] --help
to show help optionsptouch-util [--media MEDIA] render --file=[OUTPUT] [OPTIONS]
to render to anOUTPUT
image fileptouch-util [--media MEDIA] preview [OPTIONS]
to render to a preview window (not available on all platforms)ptouch-util print [OPTIONS]
to print
The --media
argument sets the default media type when the printer is unavailable, otherwise this is loaded from the printer.
Each of render
, preview
, and print
take a set of [OPTIONS]
to configure the output, these options are:
text VALUE [--font=FONT]
to render text in the specified font, use\n
for newlinesqr CODE
to render a QRCode with the provided valueqr-text CODE VALUE [--font=FONT]
to render a QRCode followed by textimage FILE
to render an image directlytemplate FILE
to load a.toml
render template (see example.toml)barcode CODE
to render a barcode (experimental, missing config options)
These CLI options are a subset of those available using the library intended to provide the basics. If you think there's something missing, feel free to open an issue / PR!
API
This needs cleaning up before it's reasonable to use... for usage see src/util.rs.
Examples
ptouch-util --media tze24mm preview qr-text \
'https://github.com/ryankurte/rust-ptouch' \
'Rust PTouch Driver\n@ryankurte' --font=24x32`
ptouch-util print qr-text \
"https://github.com/ryankurte/rust-ptouch" \
"Rust PTouch Driver\n@ryankurte" --font=24x32
Resources
Dependencies
~12–21MB
~256K SLoC