Ircama

Printing to a Brother P-Touch Cube PT-P300BT label printer from a computer

Superseded document

This Gist is superseded by https://github.com/Ircama/PT-P300BT

Introduction

The Brother P-touch Cube PT-P300BT labelling machine is intended to be controlled from the official Brother P-touch Design&Print 2 app for Android and iOS devices, instead of from a computer.

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Raspberry Pi general optimization

• Use a class 10 SD card for best speed. The USB bus can't come much higher than 30MB/s so you don't have to buy any extremely fast ones though. Not all cards are compatible, check the compatibility list: http://elinux.org/RPi_SD_cards
• Use the HardFloat version of Raspbian instead of the SoftFloat. HF has much faster floating point operations - however SF is required for running Java. So it's either Java or performance, like normal.
• The official Raspbian image gives low network speeds: http://elinux.org/RPi_Performance#NIC
• A graphics driver by Simon / teh_orph is using hardware acceleration for some instructions: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=28294 installation instructions: http://elinux.org/RPi_Xorg_rpi_Driver
• The firmware can be upgraded which gives, among other things, better GPU performance.