( 4 reviews )
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Posted: Aug 3 2009
best price on the net and shipped ready to go. love the product and cant wait to get the labels i purchased. will recomend for anyone.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Dec 15 2006
The other reviewer is correct that the "boot" is totally useless - take it out of the box and just throw it away. You can't even modify it to make room for the door to open. He is also correct on the backwards brackets in the extra small font - to print them "correctly" you have to type them in backwards. He is slightly off on the switch for the label type - it does switch over to the different size tapes when you press it them in, in the manual it says "set the cassette switch for the size of the tape cassette that you are inserting. A notch in the cassette fits over the switch when the cassette is in the correct position." The cable wrap in vertical and horizontal works great. The handle on the side is a little hokey compared to my last Dymo labeler. It does include a little "cheat sheet" for different options though they could have just printed that on the back of the unit instead. The unit could use a larger collection of special characters - the group included is a little small and I would recommend checking to see if what you might want to print isn't listed. It can run off an AC adapter and has a plug for one but doesn't come with the power supply. It doesn't say in the manual if the power supply can also charge rechargeable or not. I do like the backlighting on the 2 line display and the letters are reasonably spaced out so that you don't press two buttons when you have gloves on. In general, I am happy with this label printer that I got for 90$ including shipping. I do electrical and low voltage so this unit is exactly what works for me. I did find something really interesting that doesn't seem to be documented anywhere in the manual or on the company website. You can put the much more common (as in Walmart common) D1 type labels in the same printer as well as the more expensive RhinoPro 18xxx style labels. It's obvious they designed it for this purpose and I'm surprised they don't tell you this in the manual.
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( 4 of 4 found this review helpful ) Posted: Feb 28 2006
A handsome, mostly well-built device with the following fatal flaws, in my order of concern: -Larger printing on the polyester label stock is very hit-and-miss. Five attempts to address-label a mailbox using the 3/4" polyester ultimately failed, I had to substitute Nylon to have an appearance I could live with. I'm talking corrupted letter forms, partially inked letters. Perhaps the glossier surface of the polyester is problematic. But that's quite a lot of tape burned up. -Important symbols such as "#" and "*" (star) not available (Dymo verified this reluctantly). -Software errors such as parentheses printed backwards in XS size, ie. "[ ]" prints as "] [". I didn't look much further. -The entire one-piece heavy rubber surround enclosing the unit has to be peeled off to access the tape-cartridge compartment. Major design flaw. It doesn't come off easily, making tape changes a real pain, and removing it imperils the delicate tape-cutting lever. To think that highly paid designers with degrees come up with such things- baffling sometimes. -No auto-sensing of tape in use. Instead, a tiny 3-position switch buried in the tape compartment must be manually adjusted whenever you switch sizes. If you forget, you'll be peeling that rubber surround again. Look for auto tape-sensing, top load drop-in tape, and a full complement of symbols. The Brady ID Pal has all this with one drawback- a one-line text display. The Brother P-Touch has it too (not the top load) if you don't mind less robust construction, and the annoying 1 1/2" tape leader burned up on every label. The Brady ID Xpert cooks your dinner and does the dishes too, and priced accordingly.
