On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:06:20 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
T i m wrote:
A couple of mates have the stand alone Dymo label printers and seeing
how useful they can be (keeping stuff organised / marked up etc) I
fancied one. Daughter would probably also make use of said, I was
wondering if it might be work getting a wireless model?

Although mine runs from USB, the USB socket can't provide enough current,
so it charges an internal battery.

Ok.

And obviously has to be used beside a computer (with the labeller
software) to type in what's needed.

Ok.

The ability to use it on Wi-Fi doesn't
seem to offer any advantage to me - if you subsequently had to plug it in
to charge the battery.

Well no, other than I'm guessing it *can* function as a stand-alone
but network-shared device, you could 1) position it where you like in
the house (subject to it being within wireless range and near a power
socket etc) and 2) anyone (on your network) can use it, even if any
host / server machines are turned off?

I was thinking ahead in that my WHS only powers on when a Windows
client is connected and so if there was a Dymo Android app, a truly
'stand alone' printer might still be useable.

As I mentioned elsewhere, maybe a basic USB model hanging off a
Raspberry Pi3 (running Linux) could fit the bill, as long as it is
easy to do as I don't know (personally) a one Linux geek that could
help me.

Cheers, T i m