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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.
QL-1050 Linux Printer Driver Manual Brother Industries, Ltd. P&S Company Table of Contents 1. Overview ......................................................................................................................................1 1.1. Introduction .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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 ar.
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.
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.
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.
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_ql10.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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