Brother QL-500 P-Touch Printer and Snow Leopard

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Brother QL-500 P-Touch Printer and Snow Leopard

I have had this label printer for a couple of years. It has worked well, but I have had a lot of trouble with it since installing Snow Leopard.

I eventually got it working but the print program supplied by Brother P-Touch Editor is incredibly slow to load. It does eventually work. I am using version 5.0.013, which is the latest update on the Brother site.

I looked at the Get Info, and there is an option to open under Rosetta, but this crashes the program.

Any ideas?

Intel iMac 24" 2.8GHz., Mac OS X (10.6.1), 4Gb. SDRAM

Posted on Sep 26, 2009 2:04 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 12, 2009 7:09 PM in response to Darach Corcoran1

Updated driver and editor available here...
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/as/au/en/dlf/download_top.html?r eg=as&c=au&lang=en&prod=lpql550eas

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Answer 2

jgourd

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Dec 20, 2009 6:51 PM in response to ploughguy

I tried that new editor and driver. No luck, it just won't show up as a driver after installation.

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Answer 3

Mar 5, 2010 7:56 PM in response to jgourd

If you check the Brother website, you will see two new driver/editor packages for Snow Leopard. The first is for versions up to 10.5 and the second is for 10.6. However, if you check the filename, you will see that both are the same file, same file size and same issue date. It seems that the folks at Brother have loaded the same fileset for both versions.... unfortunately, the version they loaded is for Snow Leopard 10.5 which is of no use to those of us with the later versions.

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