LabelAirprint
PrototypePrint shipping labels from your phone to a 4×6 label printer.
A virtual AirPrint printer for the Mac. Print a page from an iPhone, iPad or Mac and it finds the USPS, UPS or FedEx label, crops it, turns it upright and prints just the label.
From the lab — an internal tool, not currently released. It may be open-sourced later.
Return labels almost always arrive as a full letter-size page with the label buried in it. LabelAirprint sits on your Mac as a printer called “Shipping Labels.” Print to it from any device and it finds the label, crops it, turns it upright and sends just that to a thermal label printer.
Working end to end today on a Brother QL-1110NWB, with detection accuracy improving as the label corpus grows.
What it does
- Shows up as a normal AirPrint printer on iPhone, iPad and Mac
- Detects USPS, UPS and FedEx labels on a full page
- Crops, rotates and scales to a clean 4×6 label
- Leaves the instructions, receipt and the rest of the page out
- Runs as a background service with a menu bar app
Contact
Questions about LabelAirprint?
Bug reports, feature ideas and business inquiries all land with the person who built it.