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<h2>inventree-cups-plugin
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<p>Label printing plugin for generic cups printers</p>
<p>A label printing plugin for <a href="https://inventree.org">InvenTree</a>, which provides support for <a href="https://www.cups.org">Cups label printing servers</a>. If your printer is not cups compatible, you can setup a cups printing server. This <a href="https://nerdig.es/labelwriter-im-netz-teil1/">article</a> describes how to setup a cups printing server for the DYMO LabelWriter 450 Duo.</p>
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<p>:warning: This plugin needs <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cups-devel</code> installed to install its dependencies. You can read more about the requirements at <a href="https://github.com/OpenPrinting/pycups"><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">pycups</code></a>. If you’re using <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">apt</code> as a package manager run <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">apt install libcups2-dev</code> before.</p>
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<p>Install this plugin as follows:</p>
<div class="language-bash highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>pip <span class="nb">install </span>git+https://github.com/wolflu05/inventree-cups-plugin
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<p>Or, add to your <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">plugins.txt</code> file:</p>
<pre><code class="language-txt">git+https://github.com/wolflu05/inventree-cups-plugin
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<td>Server</td>
<td>IP/Hostname to connect to the cups server</td>
<td><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">192.168.1.5</code></td>
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<td>Port</td>
<td>Port to connect to the cups server</td>
<td><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">631</code></td>
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<td>Benutzer</td>
<td>User to connect to the cups server</td>
<td><em>can also be empty</em></td>
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<td>Passwort</td>
<td>Password to connect to the cups server</td>
<td><em>can also be empty</em></td>
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<td>Printer</td>
<td>Printer from cups server, can be selected if valid connection options are saved in</td>
<td><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">myprinter</code></td>
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