Producing stickers and QR codes on a label printer with Perl

Label Maker

Article from Issue 183/2016
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Labels bring order to the mess of wires hiding behind the Perlmeister's home routers and organize the treasures hoarded in a multitude of boxes. With just some tweaking, the Dymo LabelWriter even prints on Linux.

For decades, I have organized my network cables with permanent labels (Figure 1) printed on a portable device by Brother. However, it bugs me that every time I print a label the device wastes raw material (Figure 2), which I have to buy in the form of fairly expensive cartridges.

Figure 1: Fast diagnostics thanks to systematic organization: the configured IP address and WiFi SSID on the router.
Figure 2: The portable Brother label printer wastes expensive raw material for labels.

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