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Karrot_Kream on April 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your pe...

What label printer do you use and did you end up automating the printing process or just the QR code generation process?

primitivesuave on April 14, 2022 [–]

I use a regular desktop printer and feed in sheets of sticky address labels (the 1" x 2.625" and 2" x 2" squares are ideal). I wrote a Java program to output QR codes with random IDs onto a PDF document, and generated one long PDF such that I could pre-print a couple thousand labels.

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