Will it work with what you already own?

An office laser, an inkjet, anything. RobCo Depot sizes the page to the label and hands it to your usual print dialog. This is the path that always works, and it is never taken away from you — a direct print that fails falls back to it and says so.

The same family, the same local printing service, and every reason to expect them to behave the same. Nobody here has had one on a desk to confirm it, so it stays unchecked until somebody does.

Not yet. Zebra is the obvious second brand — it has its own local printing service that works much the way DYMO's does — but RobCo Depot has no support for it written yet, so today a Zebra prints only through the ordinary print dialog like any other printer.

Yes, over Bluetooth, and nobody here has printed one yet. It is a pocket printer, so a phone or a laptop can send a label to it directly with nothing installed. Two limits. You have to pick the printer from a list each time you print — Bluetooth works that way in a browser, and it means a print station cannot use one: a label sent from a phone needs somebody present to choose the printer. And it takes rolls up to 48 mm wide; anything wider is refused rather than printed with its edge missing. The M200 is not offered, because how wide its head is has not been established.

No, and not for want of trying. The P-touch handhelds and the Cube talk over an older kind of Bluetooth that no browser can open at all — this is a decision by the people who make browsers, not by Brother and not by us. Nothing here can reach one.

No. These connect over Bluetooth, but only to the maker own phone app, in a private language nobody has published. The P-touch Cube is a step worse: it uses an older kind of Bluetooth that browsers have no way of opening whatsoever, so even a published language would not help. Nothing here can reach one.

Researched and not built. Each speaks its own language and most need software on the computer that a browser cannot reach. All of them print through the ordinary print dialog, which is how most people will use them.

11352 / S0722520 — 54 × 25 mm

30336 — 54 × 25 mm

30346 — 56 × 19 mm

30332 / S0929120 — 25 × 25 mm

30330 — 51 × 19 mm

30323 — 101 × 54 mm

30374 — 89 × 51 mm

99018 — 190 × 38 mm

99017 — 50 × 12 mm

dk-11201 — 90 × 29 mm

dk-11202 — 100 × 62 mm

phomemo-40x30 — 40 × 30 mm

niimbot-40x30 — 40 × 30 mm

phomemo-40x20 — 40 × 20 mm

The main way to scan, and the one that needs no extra hardware at all. It reads QR codes and ordinary product barcodes. Some browsers do this themselves and the rest fall back to a reader RobCo Depot loads for them, so it works far more widely than the NFC part does.

Switch it out of keyboard mode — its booklet has a barcode for HID-POS or virtual COM — and the browser reads the device itself, so scanning anywhere in RobCo Depot opens the record. Connect it once under Profile. Buy one that reads 2D codes, often sold as an imager: the labels RobCo Depot prints are QR codes, and the row below is what a model that reads stripes only will do instead. Scanners do not all wrap a barcode the same way, so a device may need checking against the raw bytes that page shows; that is why this is marked as still settling.

The cheaper kind of handheld, and the thing to check before buying one: a red line of light reads the striped barcodes on packaging and nothing else. Every label RobCo Depot prints is a QR code, which is a square rather than a line, so a laser reads your deliveries and never your own shelves. No setting changes that — it is what the optics can see — so look for 2D, QR or imager on the box. Connecting one works exactly as the rows above describe, and half a scanner is still worth having if it is the half you needed.

The camera scanner on a computer uses whatever webcam is attached, which is how you point a laptop at a pairing code. It has had far less use than a phone camera — a webcam is usually further from the label and worse in poor light.

Everything works: camera scanning, tapping NFC tags, writing new tags, and sending labels to a printer at your bench. This is the device the phone side was built and used on.

Scanning with the camera works, and so does asking for a label. Tapping an NFC tag does not: Apple has never made that available to web pages, and no browser you install can add it. Print the labels and scan those — every feature works that way.

The full app, plus the two things only a computer can do: printing straight to a label printer plugged into it, and acting as the print station your phone sends labels to. No NFC, on any of them.

The only combination where every phone feature works, tags included. If you want to tap a shelf instead of pointing a camera at it, this is the one. It needs the page served over https, which any normal installation is. The camera lamp can be switched on from the scan screen here, which is the difference between reading a barcode on a dim shelf and giving up on it.

Camera scanning and everything around it works. Tags do not: Firefox has not shipped the tag part of the web on any platform and has not said it will. The camera lamp is not offered either — Chrome is the only browser on Android that lets a page switch it on.

Identical to Safari in every way that matters here, because on Apple's devices they are all Safari underneath wearing a different coat. Installing one to get NFC will not work. The camera lamp is unreachable in all of them for the same reason.

The computer side was built and used here. Printing straight to a label printer, catching a handheld scanner, and the webcam scanner all work.

The app works. Printing without the dialog is the part to watch: it talks to a small service on your own computer over a certificate that browsers do not trust by default, and Firefox keeps its own list of what it trusts rather than using the system one — so you may have to accept that certificate in Firefox separately. If it will not, the ordinary print dialog still prints the same label. Pasting a screenshot into a photo field was confirmed on Windows.