Dymo label writers

[tdb]

Hi All,

Any one have any luck printing labels on the Dymo label printer.
Dymo has an SDK but only provide info on other language's which is really not very helpful.

If anyone has an example of printing a label in Pascal / Lazarus could they please share .

[MarkMLl]

What kind of labelwriter? What OS? What is the API written in? If C, did you try converting to Pascal? If so, what happened?

MarkMLl

[af0815]

If he mean such a API https://github.com/dymosoftware/dymo-connect-framework and https://github.com/dymosoftware/DCD-SDK-Sample then it is limited to .Net and Java. No 'standard' C found.

[tdb]

Label printer is Dymo LabelWriter 550 Turbo.
OS is Windows 11
API show complex examples for writing labelling app I just need to print a label.
Main problem is they do not explain which DLL contains the base functions.

I used a brother QL-580N and that was very easy to setup.

[tdb]

Label printer is Dymo LabelWriter 550 Turbo.
OS is Windows 11
API show complex examples for writing labelling app I just need to print a label.
Main problem is they do not explain which DLL contains the base functions.

I used a brother QL-580N and that was very easy to setup.

That is correct - Dymo say you can print from any language that can access COM objects but have no docs on how.
Think I will return and go for a Brother Label printer - Will wait a couple of days and see if I get a responce from Dymo.

[fred]

I have no Dymo but with Altec ATP 300 I just put a label and so on a panel and copy/draw the canvas of the panel to the canvas of the printer.
I used somthing like this:

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1.   bmp := TBitmap.Create;
2.   try
3.     bmp.SetSize(Printer.PageWidth, Printer.PageHeight);
4.     with Printer do begin
5.       BeginDoc;
6.       PanelLabel.PaintTo(bmp.Canvas, 0, 0);
7.       while (number_of_labels > 0) do begin
8.         Printer.Canvas.Draw(0, 0,  bmp);
9.         Dec(number_of_labels);
10.         if (number_of_labels > 0)
11.         then NewPage;
12.       end;
13.       EndDoc;
14.     end;
15.   finally
16.     bmp.Free;
17.   end;

Panel size was the same as the printer label size else you could use StrechDraw or so.

[MarkMLl]

I've written (Linux) software for a different ribbon (i.e. textile) printer and halfheartedly investigated extending it to handle a Dymo LabelManager.

Dymo has gained themselves a bad reputation for media lockin https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/freedmo-gets-rid-of-dymo-label-printer-drm/ which suggests that if there are alternatives with accessible APIs they should be investigated.

However I'd advise OP to either be prepared to convert between languages (i.e. express a C API in Pascal using h2pas) or select a programming language to suit the task- including accessory hardware- in hand.

MarkMLl