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What Labelyard is

Labelyard is a self-hosted hub that sits between your label printers and everything that needs a label: people with a phone in their hand, and apps such as Snipe-IT, Grocy or Spoolman. It runs as one container on your own hardware. It talks to no cloud service and keeps its data in one SQLite file in its data volume.

What you can do with it

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  • Print from the browser or the phone. The web UI is a progressive web app. Install it on your phone, scan a barcode or a printed label, and print.
  • Print from other apps. Integration plugins look up an asset, a product or a spool by its ID and lay out its label. Webhooks print when something changes in Spoolman or Grocy. Any other app prints through the REST API with its own key.
  • Use tape printers and office printers. Brother PT-Series and QL-Series printers print on tape and labels; IPP page printers print onto label sheets, and the hub keeps track of the used cells of each sheet.
  • Know what happened to a job. Every print goes through one queue per printer. You can pause, resume, cancel and retry, and a long tape job is split so that an unknown outcome stops it and asks you whether to continue or reprint.

What it is not

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Labelyard is not an inventory. It does not store your assets, products or spools; it asks the app that owns them and prints what it gets back. It is also not a driver: printers are reached over the network with their documented protocols.

A tour

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What the web app looks like, in the light or dark theme you chose for this site.

The printers: Every printer with its status and the tape or paper it holds.The printers: Every printer with its status and the tape or paper it holds.
The printersEvery printer with its status and the tape or paper it holds.
One printer: Status, tape roll, connection and queue of a single printer.One printer: Status, tape roll, connection and queue of a single printer.
One printerStatus, tape roll, connection and queue of a single printer.
Jobs: The print jobs, filtered by state, with the reason of a failed one.Jobs: The print jobs, filtered by state, with the reason of a failed one.
JobsThe print jobs, filtered by state, with the reason of a failed one.
Printing one item: The preview, the printer, the layout and the number of copies.Printing one item: The preview, the printer, the layout and the number of copies.
Printing one itemThe preview, the printer, the layout and the number of copies.
The cart onto a sheet: Several labels printed onto a partly used sheet of labels.The cart onto a sheet: Several labels printed onto a partly used sheet of labels.
The cart onto a sheetSeveral labels printed onto a partly used sheet of labels.
Sheets: The label sheets in use, with how many cells are used and free.Sheets: The label sheets in use, with how many cells are used and free.
SheetsThe label sheets in use, with how many cells are used and free.
Sheet types: The archive of sheet types with their measurements and versions.Sheet types: The archive of sheet types with their measurements and versions.
Sheet typesThe archive of sheet types with their measurements and versions.
Calibration: Measure how far a page printer is off, and the hub corrects every print.Calibration: Measure how far a page printer is off, and the hub corrects every print.
CalibrationMeasure how far a page printer is off, and the hub corrects every print.

Try it

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There is no hosted demo yet. The quickest way to look at it is the installation on your own machine; the hub starts without any printer, and you can add one later.

Brother, P-touch, PT-Series and QL-Series are trademarks of Brother Industries, Ltd. Labelyard is an independent project and not affiliated with Brother.