A K-12 help desk that prints asset labels.

Any printer the computer can print to. The stocks are laid out for Dymo LabelWriter printers (30252 and 30336), Brother QL printers (DK-1201), and any laser or inkjet printer on letter paper (Avery 5160 and 5163). A custom size covers any other roll label from 0.5 to 8.5 inches. The printer's own driver must be installed on the computer that prints; the browser prints through it like any other printer.

Only the printer's own driver, which is what Dymo Connect or the Brother driver installs. There is no Beacon plugin, extension or agent. The print page is a preview of the exact pages the browser will print; Print opens the browser's print dialog.

In the print dialog choose letter paper, set margins to none and scale to 100 percent. Fit to page shifts the grid. Start at label skips the labels already peeled from a partial sheet, counted left to right, top to bottom.

The page warns when a tag is long enough that its Code 128 bars would print too fine to scan reliably on the chosen stock. Switch the QR code off to give the barcode more room, or choose a wider stock. A custom label too narrow for a QR code beside the barcode prints without one and says so.

A device without a tag uses its serial number as the tag, so the label still scans. Chromebooks synced from Google Admin use the annotated asset ID as their tag, or the serial when there is none. To tag a batch first, paste a sheet of serial numbers and asset tags into Admin → Import; the result offers labels for every device it created. Pasting from a spreadsheet.

Only when you choose. A label always carries the asset tag, its Code 128 barcode, a QR code that opens the device in Beacon, the make and model and your district’s name. The serial number is on by default. On the print page, Person adds the holder’s name on its own line, Location adds the site and room, and Space for a name keeps a blank line on devices nobody holds. With Person off, a lost device shows the district and a tag, not a person.

Yes. The iOS app is in testing on TestFlight; in it, Print mode on Scan collects each scanned device and sends the labels through AirPrint, and a device's card has Print; choose the printer and label stock once under Label Settings, and the print dialog can be skipped. An AirPrint printer works: a Brother QL with AirPrint (QL-810W, QL-820NWB, QL-1110NWB), or a Dymo or Brother shared from a Mac. A Dymo shared from a Windows PC is not offered to a phone. In a phone's browser, Print opens the system print sheet instead.

A selection on the Assets list is the page in front of you. An import job prints labels for every device it created, up to 5,000 by tag, and the page says so when there are more; print the rest from the list. Copies prints each label up to 10 times in a row, for a device and its charger.

No. The barcode and QR code are drawn in the browser by Beacon's own encoders, written to the Code 128 and QR specifications; nothing about your devices is sent to a label service or a code generator. The QR code links to the device's page in your Beacon organization, which asks for sign-in if needed.

Nothing extra. Labels are part of the devices module, which every plan has, Starter included. Starter is free for good for one school with up to 1,000 devices; District is $1 per student per year with unlimited devices and a $900 per year minimum. Pricing.

Incident IQ's community answer of January 2022 says it prints 3-1/2 by 1-1/8 inch labels and does not support label sheets for inkjet or laser printers. Beacon prints that Dymo size, the smaller Dymo 30336, Brother DK-1201, Avery 5160 and 5163 sheets and custom sizes. Check the current state with Incident IQ before deciding on it. Beacon as an Incident IQ alternative.