DYMO Drivers and Downloads for my LabelWriter 400; USB extender to get it connected to a VM under VMware ESXi
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/23
DYMO Drivers and Downloads has the Windows drivers for my LabelWriter 400:
- Readme: http://download.dymo.com/usermanuals/read_me/dls8.5.1.en.pdf
- Download: http://download.dymo.com/dymo/Software/Win/DLS8Setup.8.5.1.exe
I’ve had this LabelWriter for a long time, but I retired my physical Windows XP PCs a while ago so I needed to get it connected to a Windows VM on my ESXi rig.
The rig and printer are almost 10 metre apart (bruto distance through cable ducts) which is beyond the maximum USB distance of about 5 metre. A repeater or Active Cable can get around that limitation. Basically these repeaters are bus powered 1-port hubs. I already had good experience with a 5 metre extender combined with a 7-port external powered USB hub to connect the XP machines to some USB printers in the printer closet (a 5 metre USB cable sometimes would fail; the repeater always worked).
So I bought a 33ft 10M USB 2.0 A Male to A Female Active Extension / Repeater Cable, fed it through the cable ducts and added these devices to my VM:
- Connect the USB repeater to the ESXi host, thereby attaching all the devices on the repeater and hub to the host as well.
- A virtual USB controller to the VM.
- To the correct VM: add each individual leafed USB device (the repeater and hub won’t show up as ESXi maps only the leaf devices).
Now I can print my 36mm x 89mm Dymo 99012 (or compatible) labels again (:
–jeroen
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