04f9:202c — PT-1230PC P-touch Label Printer E mode
Brother Industries, Ltd
- Vendor ID
- 04f9
- Product ID
- 202c
- Combined
- 04f9:202c
- Decimal
- 1273:8236
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a PT-1230PC P-touch Label Printer E mode manufactured by Brother Industries, Ltd. The vendor ID 04f9 is registered to Brother Industries, Ltd with the USB Implementers Forum, and 202c is the product ID that Brother Industries, Ltd assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 04f9:202c Brother Industries, Ltd PT-1230PC P-touch Label Printer E mode.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f9:202c Brother Industries, Ltd PT-1230PC P-touch Label Printer E mode
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 04f9:202c, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 04f9:202c. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=04f9, idProduct=202c.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_04F9&PID_202C USB\VID_04F9&PID_202C&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_04F9&PID_202C"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
PT-1230PC P-touch Label Printer E mode:
Product ID: 0x202c
Vendor ID: 0x04f9 (Brother Industries, Ltd)Driver help
Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.
Raw usb.ids entry
The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:
04f9 Brother Industries, Ltd 202c PT-1230PC P-touch Label Printer E mode