Support for red and black printing?

[ayjayt]

Hey @pklaus , thanks for all the incredible work. It works very well.

I noticed that I can print in red or black depending on which -l 62red (red) or -l 62` (black) I set.

I am not very familiar with the raster command set yet, and I am not sure if I will take a look, but from your knowledge do you think it is feasible to support red and black printing at the same time?

[arnotixe]

worksforme: The first label I ever printed with my new QL800 was black and red, and was printed like this:

export BROTHER_QL_PRINTER=/dev/usb/lp3
export BROTHER_QL_MODEL=QL-800
brother_ql print -l 62 --red nutella.jpg

NOTE that -l 62 AND --red must be specified, as the docs say: If it is a red/black tape, --red must always be specified (even if the image is only black/white).

The below nutella.jpg I got from google search, resized to 696px wide to fits 62mm labels nicely. But otherwise no editing was done to colors or anything.

Maybe it would be a good idea to include a demo red/black image in the repo @pklaus ? :) I can confirm the above works great on Q800 anyways

brother_ql rocks! I had to print 5 test labels in windows before I got the settings right (and had to install the drivers…). But on linux literally the first print was a 100% success. Without drivers!

[zachchao]

The addition of --red solved this for me, should this issue be closed?