Dymo Labelwriter

You can download the new Windows 8 driver for Dymo’s ranges of labelwriter printers here:

http://www.dymo-label-printers.co.uk/dymo-labelwriter-drivers-windows-8.html

COMPATIBILITY

Printer Support
Label Software v.8.4.1 supports the following printer models:

LW450, 450 Turbo, 450 Twin Turbo, 450 Duo, 4XL, SE450
LW400, 400 Turbo, Duo, Twin Turbo
LW310 (models 90966, 93029 & 93034 ONLY)
LW315 (model 90975 ONLY)
LW320 (models 90892, 93031 & 93036 ONLY)
LW330 (model 90891 & 93037 USB ONLY)
LW330 Turbo (models 90884, 93033 & 93038, USB ONLY)

Any unlisted models are not supported in Windows 8.

The software and drivers for the new Mac OS 10.7 “Lion” is now available for download from the Dymo Label Printer website. This is the link to the driver download page:

http://www.dymo-label-printers.co.uk/mac-driver.html

We finally have an answer from Dymo as to why some versions of the Labelwriter 320 & 310′s aren’t supported by the new Windows 7 and Vista drivers, while other versions of the same printers are.

Apparently, it’s all down to the usb chipset. It looks like Microsoft may have dropped support for an older USB chipset that is used by some of the old labelwriter printers, and this means that the new OS’s simply can’t detect the hardware – even if emulating XP in a virtual machine.

So that’s pretty final for those unsupported models – the OS simply can’t detect that the labeller is attached because it just doesn’t recognise the particular USB chipset. This means that we can be pretty sure that if it’s not supported now it won’t be supported by any future drivers that may be released.

There are a couple of solutions for those with unsupported printers, as previously mentioned here:

Vista & Windows 7 solutions for unsupported Labelwriter 320 / 310 Machines

Dymo Label Printers have posted a useful page of information covering the use of the old labelwriters with Vista and Windows 7.

As previously reported here the Dymo Labelwriter 310 driver for Windows 7 & Vista does not support all of the 300 series printers. Dymo Label Printers have proposed a few solutions, but rather than repeat them here you can read them for yourself:

Solutions for unsupported labelwriters with Windows 7 & Vista

The Dymo Software Development Kit (SDK) can now be downloaded here:

Dymo Windows SDK
Dymo Mac SDK

The Dymo SDK allows the easy integration of label printing into your applications. Features such as barcodes, text curving & rotation, graphics resizing etc are available to make powerful labelling functions available to you with minimum coding.

(For developers only)

Dymo’s response to our enquiries about the release of the official Windows 7 driver for Dymo LabelWriter printers is that there is still no release date.

We therefore advise people to use the ‘stable beta’ version of the driver (v8.2.0.820) which can be found here:

Dymo LabelWriter Driver

Apparently, this works just fine with Windows 7 and we’ve not heard of any problems with it so far.

Download the latest version of the Dymo LabelWriter Windows 7 Driver (UK Version) from here:

DOWNLOAD DRIVER: Dymo LabelWriter Windows 7

DYMO Label v8 supports the following printer models:

LabelWriter 450
LabelWriter 450 Turbo
LabelWriter 450 Twin Turbo
LabelWriter 450 Duo
LabelWriter 4XL
LabelWriter 400
LabelWriter 400 Turbo
LabelWriter Duo
LabelWriter Twin Turbo
LabelWriter 310 (models 90966, 93029 & 93034 ONLY)
LabelWriter 315 (model 90975 ONLY)
LabelWriter 320 (models 90892, 93031 & 93036 ONLY)
LabelWriter 330 (model 90891 & 93037 USB ONLY)
LabelWriter 330 Turbo (models 90884, 93033 & 93038, USB ONLY)

LabelManager PCII
LabelManager 450
LabelManager 450D
LabelPoint 350

Here is the latest release of the Dymo Label Software and Drivers, supporting the new Windows 7 OS. Please note this is a stable beta version.

Windows 7 Dymo Labelwriter Driver

You can find other drivers and documentation here:

Driver Downloads

The Windows 7 drivers will be made available with the release of the new DYMO Label™ v.8 software. The UK release is expected “at the end of September” – I’m assuming that’s 2009…

It’s not clear at this stage if any of the old LW3xx series will be supported, but I think it’s fairly safe to assume that the really old ones that weren’t Vista compatible probably won’t be Windows 7 compatible either.

Currently it is not possible to get the LabelWriter working with the Windows 7 drivers using the latest version of the Dymo Label Software.

We get a lot of requests for Vista drivers for old 300 series label printers, and there is some amount of confusion over this so here is the clarification:

The Dymo Labelwriter Vista driver (DLS 7.7 / DLS 7.8) works only for certain models (you can find the model number on the label underneath your printer):

LabelWriter 310: models 90966, 93029 & 93034
LabelWriter 320: models 90892, 93031 & 93036
LabelWriter 330 Turbo: models 90884, 93033 & 93038, USB ONLY

If you have these models the Vista driver should work. If you don’t have one of those exact models then the Vista driver will not work. At all. Whichever version of drivers you use.

The other models will still work on XP/2000 using the DLS 7.6 version.

As far as we know Dymo have no plans to include any further models in any future release of the drivers or software. Presumably there is some technical reason for this, after all the 300 series are getting quite old now and were around long before Vista.

If you have one of these ‘non-compatible’ labellers then Dymo, rather cryptically, suggest that you contact the Dymo Helpdesk for “a proper solution” – whatever that means.

Anyway, the helpdesk can be reached at helpdesk@dymo.com if you want to give it a go. And if you do, please report back here and let the King know what the solution is…