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Need drivers for CoStar LabelWriter II Plus

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First post, by vetz

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Just acquired a Costar LabelWriter II Plus and I'm trying to locate the Windows drivers.

According to Costar's archived webpage they existed for Win 3.1, WinNT 3.51 and Win95.

I've been using all my tricks to find them, but no luck so far.

Do anyone have the floppies laying around?

The latest MacOS drivers will also be of help.

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Reply 1 of 4, by Horun

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Hmm it appears CoStar joined Dymo in 1999 and they also show drivers but have yet to find them on their website as they were on ftp also
https://web.archive.org/web/19990429010505/ht … //www.dymo.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20001203121600/ht … chnicalSupport/
https://web.archive.org/web/20001213040700/ht … twareDownloads/
which a little digging got this: https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=13308
did find a manual if you haven't yet: https://cybarcode.com/sites/cy/files/manuals/ … user_manual.pdf
will dig deeped later...also found this: http://web.archive.org/web/19991103160548/htt … downloads.ihtml but same ftp...

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 2 of 4, by vetz

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Horun wrote on 2025-05-05, 23:00:
Hmm it appears CoStar joined Dymo in 1999 and they also show drivers but have yet to find them on their website as they were on […]
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Hmm it appears CoStar joined Dymo in 1999 and they also show drivers but have yet to find them on their website as they were on ftp also
https://web.archive.org/web/19990429010505/ht … //www.dymo.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20001203121600/ht … chnicalSupport/
https://web.archive.org/web/20001213040700/ht … twareDownloads/
which a little digging got this: https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=13308
did find a manual if you haven't yet: https://cybarcode.com/sites/cy/files/manuals/ … user_manual.pdf
will dig deeped later...also found this: http://web.archive.org/web/19991103160548/htt … downloads.ihtml but same ftp...

Thanks Horun!

I also found this mirror, but also on a FTP server: https://web.archive.org/web/20021018225607/ht … nt_CoStar_.html

The driver you found is for the XL and later printers (I have already tested it) and manual is for the XL version which is very similar, but not exactly the LabelWriter II. The manual should still come in handy as the construction is very similar.

I also checked download.dymo.com (which hosts their downloads after they moved away from FTP), but nothing there on archive.org. I also checked printer-drivers.com (as many of the files are on archive.org/driversdownload.solvusoft.com)

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Reply 4 of 4, by vetz

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PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2025-05-06, 08:14:

The old VersionTracker site pointed to v5.0.4 for the Mac... https://web.archive.org/web/20080405113437/ht … 2FDLS504Mac.hqx ...whilst the Dymo archive still retains v5.0.5... https://web.archive.org/web/20121019071641/ht … e/DLS505Mac.hqx ...worth a try maybe?

Yes, thanks! I just have Macs with USB so need to get a USB to serial adapter to test it.

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