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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company
Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Brother Industries, Ltd.
QL-1050
Linux Printer Driver
Manual
Mar 12, 2007
Version 1.1
Brother Industries, Ltd., Printing & Solutions Company, ES Development Dept.
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company Table of Contents 1. Overview ......................................................................................................................................1 1.1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................1 1.2. System requirements.................................................................................
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 1 1. Overview 1.1. Introduction This manual provides information on the Linux driver for the QL-1050 label printers. The Linux driver for the QL-1050 label printers consists of two types of drivers. [1] LPR driver The print features can be used with a Linux system that uses the LPD print service. [2] CUPS wrapper driver The CUPS wrapper driver operates the LPR driver as a CUPS driver. The LPR driver must be insta
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 2 1.3. Verified operating environments The operation of QL-1050 in the various Linux distributions has been verified as shown below. Linux distribution RPM Fedora Core 3 Fedora Core 4 Fedora Core 5 Mandriva Linux 2006 Red Hat Linux 9 SuSE Linux 10.0 MIRACLE Linux V4.0 Turbolinux 10 FUJI Vine Linux 3.2 Fedora Core 6 openSUSE 10.2 Debian Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r1(sarge) Notes － However, the information p
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 3 2. Installation (RPM and Debian) 2.1. Installation procedure As an example, the installation procedure for the QL-1050 driver is described below. [1] Prepare the LPR driver or CUPS wrapper driver in the appropriate directory. [2] Log on as the root user. Otherwise, use the “su” command to obtain Root permissions. [3] Install the LPR driver. ・ For Debian users: dpkg -i --force-all ql1050lpr-1.0.0-1.i386.deb ・
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 4 [5] Start the Web browser, and then display the CUPS Web administrator page (http://localhost:631). (If a proxy server is being used, make sure that the proxy server is not used as the local server.) [6] Click Manage Printers, and then check that the name of the installed printer appears. If it does not appear, click Add Printer, and then complete the installation according to the instructions that appear. [7
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 5 [8] In the Name box, type in the name of the model being used, type in the appropriate information in the “Location” and “Description” boxes, and then click the Continue button. [9] From the following two options, select the device being used, and then click the Continue button. Brother USB Printer(Ptouch QL-1050): Select this option when a USB interface is used. Brother Serial Port: Select this option when a s
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 6 [10] Select “Brother”, and then click the Continue button. [11] Select the name of the model being used (Brother QL-1050 CUPS v1.1(en)), and then click the Continue button. [12] This completes the installation. Click Printers, and then check that the printer was added.
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 7 [13] Click Configure Printer to specify the various other settings. [14] Click Print Test Page to confirm the successful installation if a test page is printed. Notes － For detailed information concerning CUPS, click “Help” in the CUPS Web administrator page. － Common UNIX Printing System, CUPS and the CUPS logo are registered trademarks of Easy Software Products. If CUPS was provided by the Linux or Apple
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 8 2.2. Precautions when specifying Linux distribution settings 2.2.1. Compatibility with distributions (Fedora Core 5/GNOME, etc.) that include SELinux This printer driver is not compatible with SELinux. If an error occurs and printing is not possible, disable SELinux. To disable SELinux [1] From “Desktop” in the menu, select “System”, then “Security Level”. [2] Select the SELinux tab, clear the “Enabled” check b
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 9 3. Creating labels using an application 3.1. Using an application (OpenOffice.org) This manual provides a description of the procedure for printing to the QL-1050 printer from OpenOffice.org, an application that is widely used in Linux distributions. When printing to the QL-1050 printer from OpenOffice.org, settings must be specified for the paper size and margins of the layout. Templates with paper size and margi
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 10 Appendix A Printer properties The printer properties available in the CUPS Web administrator page (http://localhost:631) are described below. ・ Auto Tape Cut Automatically cuts each label that is printed. The default is “ON”. ・ Brightness A setting within a range of 20% of the current value can be selected. The effect is applied to the sample. The default is “0”. ・ Contrast A setting within a range of 20%
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 11 Select “Binary”, “Dither” or “Error Diffusion”. The default is “Error Diffusion”. ・ Margin The available left and right margins (3 to 30 mm) are listed. For normal tape, the default is “3 mm”. No setting can be selected with die-cut tape. ・ Mirror Printing Specifies mirror printing. The default is “OFF”. ・ Quality Select “Give priority to print speed” or “Give priority to print quality”. The default is “Give
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 12 Appendix B Adding media (label formats) To specify a length before printing on continuous length (12 mm, 29 mm, 62 mm, 102mm) labels, use added media (label format). Media (label formats) are added from the command line. Use the tool “brpapertoollpr_ql1050” to add media (label formats). This tool is installed in the following folder with the driver. Folder: [usr]-[bin] To add: brpapertoollpr_ql1050 [-P
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 13 Appendix C Templates for OpenOffice.org Writer and Calc C.1. Templates for OpenOffice.org Writer and Calc When printing to the QL-1050 printer from OpenOffice.org, settings must be specified for the paper size and margins of the layout. Templates with the landscape and portrait orientations have been provided. The templates are shown below. These templates were created based on the media sizes listed in “C.2. Me
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Feeding direction QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 14 C.2. Page size C.2.1. Continuous length tape 5 1 3 6 2 6 4 5 2 4 1 Page size 3 Print area Feeding direction Landscape Portrait Number 1 Width 2 Length 3 Print area width (maximum printing width) 4 Print area length 5 Width offset 6 Length offset Label Designation １ ２ ３ ４ ５ ６ Size 12mm 12mm 12.02 mm →C.2.4 8.97 mm →C.2.4 1.5 mm →C.2.3 1/2” 142 do
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 15 C.2.2. Die-cut labels 1 1 3 5 3 5 6 6 8 Print area Print 10 area 2 4 2 4 7 9 Number 1 Width 2 Length 3 Print area width (maximum printing width) 4 Print area length 5 Width offset 6 Length offset 7 Width offset of masked area 8 Length offset of masked area 9 Width of masked area 10 Length of masked area ID Designation １ ２ ３ ４ ５ ６
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 16 ID Designation １ ２ ３ ４ ５ ６ DC20 23mm x 23mm 23.03mm 23.03mm 19.99mm 17.10mm 1.5 mm 3.0 mm 10/11” x 10/11” 272 dots 272 dots 236 dots 202 dots 18 dots 35 dots ID ７ ８ ９* １０* DC5 21.17mm 21.08mm 19.0mm 19.0mm 232 232 224 224 *Margins of 3 mm (1.5 mm × 2) horizontally and 3 mm (1.5 mm × 2) vertically are added to a diameter of 16 mm.
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 17 C.2.3. Feed amount The feed amount (left and right margins) is defined below. Tape Type Minimum Margin Setting Maximum Margin Setting Continuous length mm setting: 3 mm mm setting: 127 mm tape Inch setting: 0.1” Inch setting: 5” 35 dots 1500 dots Die-cut labels Set the command for specifying the margin to “0”. C.2.4. Maximum and minimum lengths The maximum and minimum lengths are defined below. Tape
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QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 18 Appendix D File configuration for Linux driver for QL-1050 D.1. Installer file configuration For Fedora Core (RPM): Name Units File Name LPR driver - ql1050lpr-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm mm ql1050cupswrapper-1.0.0-1.redhat.i386.rpm CUPS wrapper driver inch ql1050cupswrapperinch-1.0.0-1.redhat.i386.rpm For Debian: Name Units File Name LPR driver - ql1050lpr-1.0.0-1.i386.deb mm ql1050cupswrapper-1.0.0-1.debian.i386.de
