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    QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Brot her Industries, Ltd. QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Mar 12, 2007 Version 1.1 Brother Industries, Ltd., Printing & So lutions 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 .........................................................................................[...]

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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 printe rs consists of two types of drivers. [1] LPR driver The print features can be used with a Linux system that us[...]

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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 Fedora Core 3 Fedora Core 4 Fedora Core 5 Mandriva Linux 2006 Red Hat Linux 9 SuSE Linux 10.0 MIRACLE Linux V4.0 Turbolin[...]

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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 t[...]

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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 t he CUPS Web administrator page (http://localhost:631). (If a proxy server is being used, make sure that t he proxy server is not used as the local server.) [6] Click Manage Printers , and then check that the name of the insta[...]

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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 [...]

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    QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 6 [10] Select “Brothe r”, and then click the Continue button. [11] Select the name of the model being used (B rother 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 a[...]

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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 insta llation if a test page is printed. Notes － For detailed information concerning CUPS, click “Help” in the CUPS Web administrator page. － [...]

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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 (Fedor a 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[...]

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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[...]

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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 adm inistrator page (http://localhos t:631) are described below. ・ Auto Tape Cut Automatically cuts each label that is printed. The default is “ON”. ・ Brightness A setting within a ra[...]

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    QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 11 Select “Binary”, “Dither” or “Error Di ffusion”. The default is “Error Diffusion”. ・ Margin The available left and right margins (3 to 30 mm) ar e listed. For normal tape, the default is “3 mm”. No setting can be selected with die-cut tape. ・ Mir[...]

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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 m[...]

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    QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 13 Appendix C T emplates for OpenOffice.org W riter and Calc C.1. Templates for OpenOffice.org Writer and Calc When printing to the QL-1050 printer from OpenOffice.o rg, settings must be specified for the paper size and margins of the layout. Templates with the land scape [...]

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    QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 14 C.2. Page size C.2.1. Continuous length tape Fe e ding di re ctio n 6 5 La ndsc a pe 3 1 4 2 Page size P rin t area 6 5 3 1 4 2 Portrait Feedi ng dir e cti on Number 1 W i d t h 2 L e n g t h 3 Print area width (m aximum printing width) 4 Print area length 5 W idth offs[...]

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    QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 15 C.2.2. Die-cut labels Print area 4 6 2 1 5 3 4 6 2 1 5 3 Print area 10 9 8 7 Number 1 W i d t h 2 L e n g t h 3 Print area width (m aximum printing width) 4 Print area length 5 W idth offset 6 Length offset 7 Width offset of masked area 8 Length offset of masked area 9 [...]

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    QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 16 ６ ID Designation １ ２ ３ ４ ５ DC20 23mm x 23mm 10/11” x 10/11” 23.03mm 272 dots 23.03mm 272 dots 19.99mm 236 dots 17.10mm 202 dots 1.5 mm 18 dots 3.0 mm 35 dots ID ７ ８ ９ * １０ * DC5 21.17mm 232 21.08mm 232 19.0m m 224 19.0m m 224 *Margins of 3 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) i s defined below. Tape Type Minim um Margin Sett ing Maximum Margin Setting Continuous lengt h tape mm set tin g : 3 mm Inch setting: 0.1” 35 dots mm setting: 127 m m Inch setting: 5” 1500 dots Die-cut lab[...]

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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[...]

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    QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 19 For Debian Name Function File Name LPR driver Driver (1) /usr/bin/brpapertoollpr_ql1050 (2) /usr/bin/brprintconfpt1_ql1050 (3) /usr/bin/brps2ps_ql1050 (4) /usr/local/Brother/PT ouch/ql1050/inf/brPrintListpt1 (5) /usr/local/Brother/PTouch/ql1050/inf/brql1050func (6) /usr[...]

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    QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 20 Appendix E Network settings where Linux was used ③ Server PC (Linux: Fedora Core 5) ① Client PC ( Linux: Fedora Core 5 ) IP Address: 192.168.0.5 subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 192.168.0.1 ● Our results confirmed correct operation. IP Address: 192.168.0.4 [USB[...]

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    QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 21 Allow From 192.168.0.5/255.255.255.0 Allow From 192.168.0.10/255.255.255.0 </Location> <location /admin> ## Restrict access to local domain Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 Allow From 192.168.0.5/255.255.255.0 Allow From 192.168.0.10/255.2[...]

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    QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 22 [1]  -  : Server [Linux]-Client [Linux] At Server [Linux] At Client [Linux] Result Setting procedure 1 When adding a printer (QL-1050) from the CUPS window , select: Device: Brother USB Printer (PTouch QL-1050) = USB Make: Brother Model: Brother QL-1050 CUPS v1.1 [...]

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    QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 23 [1] S t a r t p r i n t e r i n s t a l l a t i o n . [ 2 ] Start the Add Printer Wizard. [3] Select "Network printer”.[...]

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    QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 24 [4] Specify the connection location for the printer. [5] Select the printer model. [6] The installation of the printer is finished. [3]  -  : Print Server [PS-9000]-Client [Linux] At Print Server [PS-9000] At Client [Linux] Results Setting procedure 1 In Windows, [...]

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    QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company 25 Appendix F Others F.1. Retrieving print error information Print error information can be retrieved from the following log file. /var/log/cups/error_log F.2. MFC-compatible Linux drivers We provide MFC-compatible Linux drivers. The Ql-1050 driver described in this manual[...]