08bd:0208 — CLP-521 Label Printer

Citizen Watch Co., Ltd

Vendor ID: 08bd
Product ID: 0208
Combined: 08bd:0208
Decimal: 2237:520

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a CLP-521 Label Printer manufactured by Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. The vendor ID 08bd is registered to Citizen Watch Co., Ltd with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0208 is the product ID that Citizen Watch Co., Ltd assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 08bd:0208 Citizen Watch Co., Ltd CLP-521 Label Printer.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 08bd:0208 Citizen Watch Co., Ltd CLP-521 Label Printer

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 08bd:0208, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 08bd:0208. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=08bd, idProduct=0208.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_08BD&PID_0208
USB\VID_08BD&PID_0208&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_08BD&PID_0208"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    CLP-521 Label Printer:
      Product ID: 0x0208
      Vendor ID: 0x08bd  (Citizen Watch Co., 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:

08bd  Citizen Watch Co., Ltd
	0208  CLP-521 Label Printer