Label Maker suggestions (NA)

[AdamZ]

I want to purchase a label maker for use in my office to label sub folders with in any given client's folder for example: Correspondence, Investigative Reports, Witness statements etc. I went to staples and was frankly faced with to many options, from $19- $40.00.Brother P-Touch was the biggie but there was a dymo and a few others.

I don't want to get an inexpensive label maker only to have to pay a fortune for the lable tape.

Anyone have any experience with lable makers in a business / file labling application that can give their thoughts?

 

[wbarnhill]

I use my Dymo LabelWriter Turbo for all my QSL card stuff in amateur radio. They've even got a dual one for two different sizes so you don't have to swap out label rolls if that makes any difference. Also, since Dymo is one of the big companies out there, finding compatible labels shouldn't be difficult.

Of course, Dymo is also more expensive initially than the Brother brand.

 

[Gary]

I want to purchase a label maker for use in my office to label sub folders with in any given client's folder for example: Correspondence, Investigative Reports, Witness statements etc. I went to staples and was frankly faced with to many options, from $19- $40.00.Brother P-Touch was the biggie but there was a dynon and a few others.

I don't want to get an inexpensive label maker only to have to pay a fortune for the lable tape.

Anyone have any experience with lable makers in a business / file labling application that can give their thoughts?

We have a couple of CASIO EZ-Label Printers, Model KL-780. Been using them for three years with no problems.

Gary

 

[EdFred]

Um...why not just buy the Avery (Or Office Max, or Office Depot) printer labels and use your word processing program to print off a sheet of labels that say whatever you need em to say?

 

[bbchien]

Get the Brother. Get the model that makes 1/2" and 3/4" as you can get clear tape with black letters or black with white letters for replacing you placards when you redo your panel overlay. Hey no kiddin, no matter how much you might wast on tape, you'll make it up on this single application. A piper placard runs $40 and I have eighteen of them on my panel.

Think OUTSIDE the box.

 

[AdamZ]

Um...why not just buy the Avery (Or Office Max, or Office Depot) printer labels and use your word processing program to print off a sheet of labels that say whatever you need em to say?

Could do that if I printed one entire sheet for what ever label I need ie " Correspondence and the peeled them off when I need them. But it would be a real PIA to do it for every file.

 

[EdFred]

Could do that if I printed one entire sheet for what ever label I need ie " Correspondence and the peeled them off when I need them. But it would be a real PIA to do it for every file.

In Office2007, you can print out single labels, and tell it to start at row x column y if you dont want entire sheets of em.

 

[Tom-D]

buy the Avery labels at OfficeMax, and down load the program from their web page. works great on any labels they sell.

 

[SCCutler]

In Office2007, you can print out single labels, and tell it to start at row x column y if you dont want entire sheets of em.

Yeah, you can do that, but by the time you've run the sheet of labels through the laser printer about five or six times, they get all funky and grey.

 

[EdFred]

Yeah, you can do that, but by the time you've run the sheet of labels through the laser printer about five or six times, they get all funky and grey.

When was the last time you cleaned your printer?

 

[SCCutler]

When was the last time you cleaned your printer?

During the Carter administration.

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

Um...why not just buy the Avery (Or Office Max, or Office Depot) printer labels and use your word processing program to print off a sheet of labels that say whatever you need em to say?

I've done that, but we ended up getting the P-Touch maker because you can get water resistant labels. Plus I don't have to worry about the label coming off as the paper goes around the bend in the printer that I have.

On the down side, the label cartridges are not cheap - and you do go through them quickly...

 

[Everskyward]

I bought a P-touch because I liked the one they have at work.

 

[BillTIZ]

Yeah, you can do that, but by the time you've run the sheet of labels through the laser printer about five or six times, they get all funky and grey.

That happens when you use cheap refilled cartridges.

 

[BillTIZ]

I use a P-Touch for the 50hr Due and AD 100hr Due stickers in the cockpit.
They do fade in the bright sunlight after a few months.

 

[Lawreston]

Someone should correct the title of this thread.

HR