Etiquette

Print labels on a Brother P-touch P700 printer from the command line, without any special drivers.

echo "Label" | etiquette /dev/usb/lpN

Features

Print a list of newline delimited labels from stdin as one job, only wasting the ~25mm of feed tape once per job:
```
echo -e "Label 1\nLabel 2" | etiquette /dev/usb/lpN
```
(Make sure to remove labels as they feed out, otherwise small ones can pile up and slow down the printer, offsetting the text on the next labels.)
Detect tape size loaded into printer, and automatically pick corresponding font size.

Print pre-rendered images, for example QR codes:

qrencode --symversion=3 --strict-version --size 4 --margin 1 -o- "http://go.afab.re/etiquette" | etiquette -img /dev/usb/lpN

Preview the output as a PNG:

echo "Label" | ./etiquette -preview label.png /dev/usb/lpN

Linux usblp driver.
Printer should show up as /dev/usb/lpN.
Permission to access /dev/usb/lpN. Typically add yourself to the lp group:
- sudo usermod -aG lp $USER; newgrp lp

With a working Go installation:

go install go.afab.re/etiquette/cmd/etiquette@latest

ptouch-print
- Doesn't support printing and cutting multiple labels at a time.
- Font size varies based on text: labels with descenders (eg g) will use a smaller font than those without.
B-Label
- Doesn't support printing multiple labels at a time.
- Doesn't output anything with the P700 printer.
ptouch-driver
- CUPS driver.
- Need to manually specify label length, defaults to 100mm. Eg:
```
lp -d PT-P700 -o PageSize=Custom.17x70 -o landscape
```
- Supports printing and cutting multiple labels at a time.