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Brother QL-Series label printers

This printer driver supports various devices from the Brother QL series of easy to use label printers. These printer devices varies in more or less unknown details. A few differ in their print width (more than 62 mm). And one series (the QL8xx) differ in their capability to print in bi-colour mode with a special label cassette (DK2215).

Known QL-Series printer models

Printer Cutter 300 DPI 600 DPI bi-colour > 62mm tested
QL500 manual X X
QL550 auto X
QL560 auto X
QL570 auto X
QL580 auto X
QL600 auto X
QL600TD auto X
QL700 auto X
QL710W auto X
QL710NW auto X
QL800 auto X X X X
QL810W auto X X X
QL820NWB auto X X X
QL1050 auto X X
QL1060N auto X X
Note
For QL models with an auto cutter, it is possible to print multipage documents and each page gets cut by default. For QL models with a manual cutter multipage documents are printed at once and at the end the user can manually cut the whole page sequence.
Reading the printer's datasheets is confusing regarding their print data compression capabilities. Most datasheets state, compression isn't supported or (at least) with some restrictions (limited to the "serial interface" for example). But printer data records from different drivers still show they use the RLE compression method. On the other hand, data compression on a full speed USB link doesn't makes sense for this small amount of data. Thus, this filter doesn't use compression at all.
Various printers listed above can print vertically at 600 DPI. But the driver doesn't support it, yet.