brother_ql v0.8.1

New functionality:

• The QL-800 series (QL-800, QL-810W, QL-820NWB) is now supported:
  • brother_ql_create can now create label with two-color printing (black/red/white)
    if your printer supports it. Just provide the --red flag to the CLI call.
  • brother_ql_analyze can interpret two-color printing instruction files.
• New flag --dither for the brother_ql_create tool to use dithering instead of the --threshold to convert grayscale to b/w.

Changed behaviour:

• By default, created labels are not using compression any longer:
  • create_label() now accepts a new keyword argument compress.
    The default is False → no compression if not set manually.
    This will speed-up the label creation in many cases
    at the expense of larger file sizes. Set to True if you
    don't care about processing time but want to store the
    generated label files.
  • The brother_ql_create CLI offers this via the new
    argument --compress.
    New default (if not set): no compression.

brother_ql v0.7.5

Changes:

• brother_ql_create's function create_label is now ~20% faster due to the use of a better image inversion logic.

brother_ql v0.7.4

New functionality:

• brother_ql_print's instruction_file argument now accepts - to read from stdin
• added cutting support for the QL-550 (thanks @bonboncolovich)
• round labels can now be printed

Bug Fixes:

• images with a transparency layer are now placed in front of a white background

brother_ql v0.7.3

Bug Fixes:

• Printing using the PyUSB backend failed for long labels: after printing ~3cm, the label printer a timeout error was thrown (usb.core.USBError: [Errno 60] Operation timed out) and the printing would stop.
  The bug is fixed in this release by using a larger timeout.

brother_ql v0.7.2

New functionality:

• A new argument --rotate was added to the brother_ql_create tool.

Bug Fixes:

• A nasty bug concerning the QL-500 and QL-570 was fixed which prevented full printouts.
• The last line of your image files was missing on the labels. Now it will be printed.
• The --threshold argument wasn't working since moving away from numpy. This is now fixed.

brother_ql v0.7.0

This is the first release published on PyPI.