small label printers

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 19 June 2006 10:48, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> Anyone using anything like the DYMO LabelWriter from Linux? If so, how?
> I am looking for a printer I can use to generate labels (fit on top of
> hard disks) from text input. Meaning that I do not want to require that
> the text be edited in some GUI. Of course, If I could seed a GUI from
> some application and the user just presses PRINT, that would work :) Any
> other decent label printers being used? I tried to get printable hard
> disks (like the white topped printable CD/DVD), but there is just no
> humor in this industry.

We may have a winner......    I have a brand new Casio KL-P1000-L  "Mouse Pad 
Label Printer" that I have never opened....  It was given to me as a gift (it 
was found in a bargain barrel) and I never had need for it.

So I just dug it out and went through the motions of installing it in Cups and 
Cups says it supports it.

Not sure they are still available but if you want to look around and find one, 
I'll go ahead and see whether this works.  (I haven't installed it yet)

Assuming it is supported by Cups, I would think you could print from anywhere 
including CLI.

They also call it "EZ-Label printer".