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Etiketto

Etiketto designs and prints colour labels on the Brother VC-500W (ZINK paper) under Linux, the counterpart to Brother's Color Label Editor.

Main window Main window

  • Text, images, QR codes and barcodes; backgrounds printed edge to edge
  • Preview at print resolution: what you see is what is printed
  • Cassette detection, vivid colours and cut modes over the network
  • 26 languages, follows the light or dark mode of the desktop

Printers: Brother VC-500W. Further printers can be added as a backend, see Contribute.

Install

Flatpak

Flathub is in preparation. Until then, build it yourself:

git clone https://git.joshuahirsig.xyz/joshii/etiketto.git && cd etiketto
flatpak install --user flathub org.gnome.Sdk//51 org.gnome.Platform//51
flatpak-builder --user --install --force-clean build-dir \
    build-aux/flatpak/xyz.joshuahirsig.Etiketto.yml

install.sh

Install the system packages, then run the script as your user (no root):

Distribution Packages
Debian, Ubuntu python3-gi gir1.2-gtk-4.0 gir1.2-adw-1 python3-gi-cairo python3-venv gettext
Fedora python3-gobject gtk4 libadwaita python3-cairo gettext
Arch python-gobject gtk4 libadwaita python-cairo gettext
Gentoo dev-python/pygobject gui-libs/gtk:4 gui-libs/libadwaita dev-python/pycairo sys-devel/gettext 
git clone https://git.joshuahirsig.xyz/joshii/etiketto.git && cd etiketto
./install.sh

Uninstall: ./install.sh --uninstall or flatpak uninstall xyz.joshuahirsig.Etiketto. Saved labels and templates are kept.

First label

  1. Switch the printer on. Etiketto finds it in the network (Bonjour) and detects the inserted cassette.
  2. Not found? Enter the address under Host name or IP address, e.g. VC-500W1234.local or 192.168.1.50. New printer: set up its Wi-Fi first, see Printer.
  3. Add text, an image or a code, then Print.
  4. Save stores the label as .etiketto file, Save as template… adds it to Templates.