// macOS · Apple silicon

Your label printer
prints again on a Mac

TSPL Label Print prints labels from PDF files and images on thermal printers that speak TSPL — Xprinter, TSC, Gprinter and others — without the vendor driver. For printers that stopped working after a macOS update or never worked on an M1–M4 Mac.

Free trial Mac App Store

The free trial prints 20 labels with every feature unlocked. macOS 13 or later.

// Sound familiar?

The Mac sends the job,
the printer stays silent

The job shows up in the print queue and disappears, but no label comes out.
The printer worked before a macOS update and doesn't now. Reinstalling the driver doesn't help.
The driver from the vendor's website won't install or won't work on an Apple M1–M4 Mac.
The print log (/var/log/cups/error_log) shows com.apple.badarch-error.

The cause is almost always the same: the driver's filter was built only for older Intel Macs, and current macOS on Apple silicon refuses to run it. The printer is fine — the commands just never reach it. TSPL Label Print turns your label into TSPL commands itself and sends them straight to the printer, bypassing the broken driver.

// How it works

Three steps to a printed label

01

Printer in Printers & Scanners

If the printer is already added in macOS, there's nothing to do. If not, add it with any driver, for example "Generic PostScript Printer".

02

Open your label

Drag in a PDF from your marketplace or shipping account, or a PNG or JPG. The preview shows exactly what will come out.

03

Print

Set the label size and click Print. A multi-page PDF prints one page per label.

// Try and buy

Test it with your printer first

Free trial

The full app, limited to 20 labels. The test label doesn't count, so you can tune the settings as long as you like.

  • macOS 13 Ventura or later
  • Apple silicon and Intel Macs
  • Signed and notarized by Apple
Download .zip

Unzip the archive and drag TSPL Label Print into your Applications folder.

Full version

$4.99one-time purchase, no subscription
  • Unlimited labels
  • Purchase and updates through the Mac App Store
  • Install on all your Macs with the same Apple Account
  • Works offline, collects no data
Buy on the Mac App Store

Price shown is for the US store; Apple sets local prices in other countries. Before installing the App Store version, delete the trial copy — your settings stay.

// FAQ

Questions

Which printers are supported?

Thermal label printers that use the TSPL / TSPL2 command language at 203 dpi, connected to your Mac over USB or the network and added in Printers & Scanners. That covers most budget Xprinter, TSC, Gprinter printers and their clones. Tested on Xprinter XP-360B. The easiest check is to download the trial and print a test label — it's free.

My printer doesn't print — will this help?

If the printer receives the job but prints nothing, and the CUPS log shows badarch, then yes, that's exactly the case this app solves. If macOS doesn't see the printer at all (it isn't detected over USB), the problem is the connection, and the app can't fix it. The trial shows this before you pay.

Do I need to remove the old driver?

No. The app sends raw jobs that bypass the driver's filter, so the old driver doesn't get in the way. You can keep the print queue as it is.

How do I go from the trial to the full version?

Buy TSPL Label Print on the Mac App Store, delete the trial copy from Applications and install the App Store version. Label sizes and other settings carry over.

Can I get a refund?

Purchases made on the Mac App Store are refunded by Apple: request one at reportaproblem.apple.com. That's why we recommend printing a few labels with the trial first.

Can I pay another way, or buy several licenses for a company?

License keys for the website version are sold in Russian rubles on the Russian page. For anything else, write to vitaliy.chardymov@gmail.com.