Contacts and Brother QL-580N Label Printer

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Contacts and Brother QL-580N Label Printer

Hi,

I'm trying to get Contacts app in Mountain Lion (previously known as Address Book) to print natively to a Brother QL-580N printer. By 'natively' I mean without having to install Brother's GUI application.

At the time that I added the printer in System Preferences > Print & Scan, Mountain Lion reached out and downloaded QL-580n CUPS drivers nicely.

I can select QL-580N as the printer, with CUPS driver, and send it print jobs.

What I can't do is figure out how to format it for 1.1" X 3.5" labels (Brother address labels DK-1201) in Contacts app.

In Print Dialog box > Contacts > Size I can choose 1.1" by 3.5" but it prints portrait instead of landscape, printing only part of the address across the middle of the label.

If there was a landscape option it would be easy... am I missing something?

Thanks,

b.

Posted on Apr 24, 2013 12:45 PM

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buckster Author

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May 13, 2013 2:12 PM in response to buckster

Ok... I got there, kinda.

I found that the 'envelopes' style has a landscape/portrait option.

With some help from this post: Re: Address Book label printing

I was able to prit a label directly from Contacts.

Be very careful of the Basic > Length setting. It defaults to 11 inches. This will waste a LOT of tape if you don't remember to set it to something appropriate. Unfortunately you need to do this each time; saving as a preset does not save this option 😟

b.

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