Printers you already own

September 6, 2026

Only a DYMO could be sent a label directly. Now a Brother QL, a Phomemo and a Niimbot can be too, and the compatibility page answers every other label printer people have asked about — including the ones that cannot work, and why.

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• New Brother QL-700 and QL-810W label printers can now be printed to directly, over their USB cable.

  Pick one as your printer and a label goes straight to it when you tap print, with no extra software to install — the app draws the label itself and sends it down the cable. Nobody here owns one yet, so it is listed as untested on the compatibility page until somebody prints one and looks at it. One thing can get in the way: on some computers the software that came with the printer holds on to the cable and will not let the browser near it. Nothing is lost when that happens — the label opens the ordinary print dialog instead, and still prints. The compatibility page says which computers this affects.

• New The Phomemo M110 pocket label printer can now be printed to directly, over Bluetooth.

  Pick it as your printer and a label goes straight to it — from a laptop, or from a phone, with nothing to install. Nobody here owns one yet, so it is listed as untested on the compatibility page until somebody prints one and looks at it. Two things to expect. Bluetooth asks you to choose the printer from a short list each time, which is how a browser works and not something the app can skip; because of that, a print station cannot use one, since a label sent from a phone would sit waiting for somebody to choose. And it takes rolls up to 48 mm wide — a wider roll is refused rather than printed with its edge missing. Three roll sizes are offered to start with.

• New The Niimbot B1 pocket label printer can now be printed to directly, over Bluetooth.

  It works the way the Phomemo does: choose it as your printer, and a label goes to it from a laptop or a phone with nothing to install. You pick the printer from a short list each time, which is how Bluetooth works in a browser, and that also means a print station cannot use one. Only the B1 is offered, on purpose. Niimbot models differ from one another more than most ranges do, in ways nobody has fully written down, and getting one of those details wrong prints noise rather than a slightly wrong label. If you have a different Niimbot, adding it is a short job — with the printer in front of somebody.

• New The DYMO LabelWriter 550 can now be chosen as your printer.

  It prints exactly as the 450 does and takes the same rolls. One thing to know before buying one: the 550 checks a chip in the roll and refuses labels that are not DYMO. That is the printer own decision, not this app — nothing here treats it differently, so a roll it turns down simply does not print.

• New Five Brother DK label rolls can now be chosen: small, address, large address, shipping, and continuous tape.
• Improved The compatibility page now lists the handheld and app-only label makers, and the 4×6 shipping printers, with a plain yes or no and the reason.

  A page listing only what works is a sales page. So the noes are there too, and they say whose decision each one is: a handheld with no socket to plug anything into cannot be reached by anything, a label maker that only talks to its maker phone app is a closed door somebody else shut, and a shipping printer that speaks its own unpublished language is simply waiting for one to be in somebody hands. All of them still print through the ordinary print dialog if your computer already knows about them.

• Fixed A label now comes out the same whichever way you print it, instead of shifting slightly when it goes straight to the printer.

  The print page and the printer used to work out the layout separately, and they did not quite agree — the square symbol was noticeably bigger on screen than the one that came off the roll. The label is now worked out once and both are given the same picture, so what you see on the page is what ends up on the sticker.

• Fixed Choosing a roll now sends the label to the printer that takes it, instead of falling back to the print dialog.

  A roll only fits the machines it was made for, so choosing one already says which printer is meant. It used to be possible to end up with a roll and a printer that did not match — a roll picked for one shelf while the printer was set somewhere else, or a design drawn for paper you keep in your other machine — and the label quietly went to the print dialog instead. It now goes to whichever of your printers takes that roll, and the dialog is kept for the case where none of them does.

• New Each computer can now have its own label printer, and your profile holds the default the rest of them use.

  If you have more than one computer with a label printer on it, one setting could never be right for both — pick the printer in the study and labels printed in the workshop went to the wrong machine. Set a computer up as a print station and labels printed from that browser now go to its printer, whatever the profile says; every other browser keeps using the profile, which is why it is now described as your global default. Setting a computer up is also enough on its own — you no longer have to tick the direct printing box separately for it. The Label printing settings say when the browser you are looking at has its own printer, so the page cannot show you one machine while another does the printing.

• New Each kind of label can now use its own roll, which is also how you send product labels to one printer and location labels to another.

  A roll only fits the printers it was made for, so choosing one already says which machine a label comes out of. Label printing now lets you choose a roll for each kind of label — products, locations, serial numbers, best before dates — instead of one for all of them. Put product labels on a roll in one printer and location labels on a roll in another and each kind goes to the right machine on its own. Anything you leave alone keeps using the roll you chose above it, and a place that names its own roll still wins for everything printed there.

• Improved Label printing now opens by telling you what each kind of label will print on and out of, on the computer you are using.

  Working out where a label would come from used to mean holding a chain of settings in your head, and the one that caught people was the link that appears in no box at all: with no roll chosen, the printer quietly uses the first roll it lists. The settings now start with the answer — one line per kind of label, saying the roll, the printer, and where that roll came from, whether you chose it or something else decided. It also says whether the computer you are on has its own printer or is using your default, with a link to set one up if not.

• Improved Your label printing settings now say when they have left one of your designs unused, and no longer claim you chose a roll you never picked.

  A design is drawn for one roll and is only used on that roll, so choosing a different one quietly retires it. That was only ever said on the designs page, after the fact — the settings that caused it said nothing at all. They now name how many designs are going unused and which roll those were drawn for. The wording on the designs page is also honest about where the roll came from: if you picked a printer but never picked a roll, it says so and names the roll to choose, instead of telling you your printing "is set to" something you never set.

• Fixed The symbol on a label is shown at the size it really prints, rather than a little larger.