CUCuriositry·Oct 28, 2025Submission
Reverse-engineered CUPS driver for Phomemo receipt/label printers
124 points · Open discussionvivier
phomemo-tools
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vivier / phomemo-tools
phomemo-tools
CUPS driver for Phomemo Label Printer
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CUPS driver for Phomemo Label Printer
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What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI just bought a Phomemo D30 thermal label printer to label my electronics component boxes last week, and I was wondering if I can hack things to send it images from my PC instead of the phone app it comes with.
I found this repo, but I don't know if that's compatible with the D30 (the chassis pictured is of a different printer): https://github.com/vivier/phomemo-tools
Someone in Issues asked the same question, but the author wasn't able to answer for lack of hardware. I guess I need to try and/or contribute!
The "Print master" phone app is uploaded under a different brand name (QUIN LLC), and other brands also seem to sell a D30 printer. I didn't really do the work of finding out where these truly come from. Perhaps someone's got a repo up under a different name.
I've done 0 comparisons to other models in practice, but FWIW it does what I
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wanted it to do very well. All my stuff is obsessively well-labeled now. In fact, I labeled the printer in a mad-with-power move ... https://eikehein.com/stuff/label_printer.png