Print name tags labels at meetups

I wrote a detailed description on how it works here

https://medium.com/@kevinsimper/how-to-print-name-tags-for-your-meetup-c6293a8faf8f

http://www.undocprint.org/formats/page_description_languages/brother_p-touch

Running in the browser

This will run in the browser by using a couple of projects.

• A way to provide the template
• A way to generate the label
• A way to connect to the printer
• A way to provide the attendees names

All running in the browser connected to a Brother QL820NWB printer.

Requirements

brew install libusb
pip install virtualenv
virtualenv env
. ./env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirement.txt

Printing directly from meetup.com

In order to start printing right away there are a couple of steps you need to take.

You need to run the command

. ./env/bin/activate

and then run the server with

npm start

Now you will be runnning your app on port http://localhost:9000. There is a template by which you will print your label, and you can see it by navigating to http://localhost:9000/template.html. This template file can be adjusted to your use case by editing the page in label/template.html

Now you can start the actual printing:

• Make sure you have your printer connected to your computer/device.
• Navigate to your meetup.com atendee page.
• Open the command line tools and paste the code from the browserScript file. This will modify the DOM and add a Print button next to each of the atendees
• Print 🖨

Generating a different qr code to use

In order to customise your label, you might want to generate a new qr code pointing to your own website. This is being done by running the code inside the qr.js file, and you can do it so:

node qr.js https://copenhagenjs.dk

The qr code above will point to https://copenhagenjs.dk