( 16 reviews )
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Posted: Mar 26 2009
Great Printer for printing shipping labels. We use this for printing our shipping labels, w/stamp and delivery confirmation from Paypla's Multi Order Shipping application.
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Posted: Apr 8 2008
We bought one for our office, and proceeded to waste a lot of time trying to get it to print as a network printer. Brother's software is bug-ridden, and didn't install cleanly on any of our Windows machines. And online support is a joke. This printer worked fine on one machine, but is a terrible waste of time for network printing. You can't simply set this up as a regular printer, but must go through Brother's proprietary software for every print. A real pain.
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Posted: Mar 23 2008
At one time, the QL-550 was my favorite label printer, mostly because I liked its print quality better than DYMO's. When I upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard, however, I ran into problems. Installing Brother's "Leopard-compatible" driver and label software worked fine, and the label printer worked great. Unfortunately, installing the Brother software "broke" around 20 of my previously installed programs, including Microsoft Office 2008, Logic Pro, and Adobe Creative Suite CS3. I don't know if reinstalling each of these programs after installing the Brother software will work, as I don't have the patience to hassle with it. I'm instead doing a complete reinstall of my main hard drive's contents (pre-Brother) from Time Machine. This is a great printer, but until Brother comes up with software installers that don't cause problems for other installed programs, I can't recommend this printer for Mac users.
