the one i've got (brother p-touch) seems to require a proprietary software suite, but i haven't really put any effort into figuring out whether there's an alter

the one i've got (brother p-touch) seems to require a proprietary software suite, but i haven't really put any effort into figuring out whether there's an alternative way to print to it. it definitely does not "just work", it's not detected as a printer in windows.