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easy to use and the labels are common enough to find in store on island. The price was just right.
this is a great little printer. my shoe boxes have never looked so good. i have not tried too many things on it, i am not too technically advanced, but my neighbor figured it out immediately. one thing i did to avoid wasting tape between items is just to string along each title with only a space or two between them and then use scissors to cut them apart afterward.
After two weeks it's fast, reliable and I like the set of printing options. It shuts down too quickly during idle time even while plugged in and I haven't yet figured out how to change that.
Great product. Once I master everything though, I'm confident that I will truly enjoy this machine and the convenience it offers. New to me though as I've never used a label machine before. Has a lot of interesting features that I'm becoming familiar with.
I believe this printer was mainly designed to sell a lot of tape cartridges for Brother. Changing the cartridge is simple. So, at the very least, you'll waste about an inch of tape for every label you make. They're nice in the fact that you can change the cartridges out before they're empty. I would never have paid the full price for this labeler, but when Amazon offered it for around thirty bucks, I couldn't pass it up.
You have to provide the USB cable. The default setting has rediculously wide margins before and after a label's text. This means you can put different widths of tape in for different applications with no trouble or other waste. Each label is printed, cut, and ejected when you're done. I don't believe the software (for using the printer with a computer) is rated for Windows Vista, but it's supposed to work with everything below that.
Even if you narrow the margins, or select "none", the leading edge still has nearly an inch of tape that you must cut off (it prints a mark to show you where). It's expensive to operate, but if you can get one dirt cheap like I did, it's kind of worth it. The cartridges aren't cheap (about $11 and up).
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