>Good evening all,
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>Does anyone have experience with a Brother® P-Touch® QL-500 PC Label Printer (or an equivalent product) for printing things like address labels, name tags, shipping labels, etc. from a VFP9 application?
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>I would appreciate any suggestions and recommendations. It would be a low-volume activity; only a few dozen labels in a typical day.

Sorry I can't offer any specifics, just some general observations:

- I have one very small client (3 staff) who love the Dymo 450, they each have one

- I haven't needed to try to print to one from VFP. For that it would need to present as a conventional Windows printer of some kind, perhaps with various custom page sizes and landscape vs. portrait. I don't know if the Dymo or Panasonic show up as such

- Over the years I've been impressed with Brother's drivers for a number of their devices. They typically even include support for Linux. Their Q700 model appears to support Windows, OS X and Linux: http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=ca&lang=en&prod=lpql700eus . Support for multiple OSs sometimes means better/more universal driver architecture and a greater chance of being able to use them from something "unconventional" like VFP