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The credits go to Dominic Radermacher, who created the git.

I managed to get my Brother P-touch label printer working with Dominic's solution running Ubuntu 18.10.
It may work with other linux distros as well, there is a PKGBUILD for Arch/AUR on the site too.

It even has bidirectional communication with the label printer, so it detects the inserted label casette size to scale the font.

Install instructions:
Connect the P-touch printer via USB and power on.
Cups service will detect and install the cups driver.
The printer is installed and detected via CUPs, but this makes no sense, because it can't print labels from any program.

Therefore we need further installs:

USB-detection step (open terminal and paste these commands - hit enter after each command)

sudo apt-get install autopoint libusb-1.0-0-dev libgd-dev

Compile-step (skip git-all install if already done)

sudo apt-get install git-all

sudo git clone https://mockmoon-cybernetics.ch/cgi/cgit/ptouch-print.git



cd ptouch-print/

sudo apt install autoconf

autoreconf -i

sudo ./autogen.sh

./configure --prefix=/usr

sudo make install

./install.sh

Usage - print labels:

1 row label:

sudo ./ptouch-print --font "Comic Sans MS:bold" --text "ABCD"

2 row label:

sudo ./ptouch-print --font "Comic Sans MS:bold" --text "AB" "CD"

3 row label:

sudo ./ptouch-print --font "Comic Sans MS:bold" --text "A" "B" "CD"

4 row label:

sudo ./ptouch-print --font "Comic Sans MS:bold" --text "A" "B" "C" "D"

Image print label:

sudo ./ptouch-print --image backspacelogo.png

help command:

./ptouch-print --help

For 24mm labels here the maximum font size options:

1 row 24mm:

--fontsize "120"

2 row 24mm:

--fontsize "60"

3 row 24mm:

--fontsize "38"

4 row 24mm:

--fontsize "30"

Please provide feedback for this install tutorial, maybe it works with easier steps. Other instructions didn't work.
Like this one:

http://xn--von-thlen-v9a.de/doku.php/wiki/linux/druckerundscanner#ptouch-print

Anybody knows why i need additional steps to install?

Does anybody know how to create a small GUI to enter text & rows to avoid printing via terminal?

Can anybody try this solution with a Brother 1230PC Label printer too?

pappl