Raspberry Pi Dymo LabelWriter (R) Timestamp Printer

Disclaimer

This software is provided as-is. Currently, these files are only materials we can provide. I can't ensure if I can answer to your questions promptly.

YouTube

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1wjYJmdkJ8

Blog (originally Japanese but translated to English by Google)

• (Translated by Google) I tried to make a timestamp (date) printer with Raspberry Pi

• (Translated by Google) Next, I tried to create a timestamp (date) printer with Raspberry Pi

Files Explanation

rpi

Raspberry Pi software written by Shell scripting language are located in bin/ directory.

• printdatetime_server: Label printing server which should be running all along.

• printdatetime: Test program to print a timestamp label. (Not required usually.)

• start_printdatetime_server: Monitor program which should be periodically ran by cron etc.

• gen_datetime_label: Sub-program, to generate label image, which is called by printdatetime_server.

• lpr_datetime_label: Sub-program, to print label image, which is called by printdatetime_server.

etc

Some (possibly) helpful files. (I forgot how helpful.)

examples

Some examples.

Some Note

• Dymo Linux driver can be downloaded here.

• This tutorial is quite helpful to understand how to set-up Dymo printer for Raspberry Pi.

• You need to obtain a font file by a legal way.

• You may need to install some software packages (e.g. ImageMagick).

• You can attach a button switch to start printing. The GPIO number, which is connected to the switch, is defined by PORT in printdatetime_server. Please also refer tutorials like this.

• You can utilize more sophisticated library to monitor GPIO.

• If you want, please freely fork this Git repo. :)

Atsushi Yokoyama, Firmlogics

https://flogics.com/