I have a Dymo LabelWriter 450 for years and I love using it. Especially it worked a miracle recently when I organised all ny shelves and bagged and labelled everything. To have the ability of keeping the printer online all the time and print easily I decided to plug it in a Raspberry Pi and share over the network. The steps below explain how it can be done easily:

Step 01: Plug in the printer to the Pi via USB

Simply plug it in and power it on.

Step 02:

• Click Pi -> Preferences -> Add / Remove Software
• Search “dymo”
• Tick the checkbox next to “printer driver for DYMO label printers”
• Click Apply and wait for the installation to complete

Step 03: Configure printer

• On the Pi itself, open a browser and go to “http://localhost:631”

• Click Administration and Add Printer. In the username/password prompt, use the account you used to log in (most likely username “pi”)

• You should see DYMO printer in the list of Local Printers

• Change the name of the printer if you like and click Continue

• Change the drivers if it’s incorrect and click Add Printer

• Accept or modify the default options and click Set Default Options

• Confirm the printer is listed in the printers list

Step 04: Share the printer

• Click Pi -> Preferences -> Print Settings

• From Printer menu select Shared to share it over the network

Step 05: Setup client machine

Option 1: Add network printer

• Download and install DYMO software
• Upon first run, application asks to run Add Network Printer Utility
• Click Yes

For me, this method did work on one machine and did not work on another one. So for the other machine I used Option 2

Option 2: Add printer using OS’s add printer functionality

I used a Mac for this but should be similar on Windows.

• Search for Printers & Scanners
• Click + button
• It should show the printer on the network:

Step 06: Test

Now that printer is recognized on the client machine, just design your labels and print using DYMO Label app.

Resources

• Official DYMO site to download drivers and software