Print it right! (without ink or toner)
Printers have evolved, they’ve been evolving for a while now.
We’ve moved a long way from side perforated dot matrix printing.
If you print anything at all these days (because we’re all going paperless, right?) you’re more likely to print a photo, label or postage.
Yes, trips to the post office have gone out of fashion too.
You don’t need a huge great inkjet printer taking up your desk either, specialized printers lie those used for labels and stamps aren’t a lot bigger than the label itself now.
Though they’re specific as to what they print these label printers are by no means limited in how they’re printing what they’re printing.
Take the Dymo company for example. For many years they’ve been at the forefront of any and all labeling technologies.
Dymo has a variety of printers available for printing your labels and online online stamps. Let’s look at a couple of your options from the Dymo LabelWriter series.
There’s the LabelWriter Twin Turbo which allows you to load two types of labels or stamps into the machine so that you don’t have too change the reel each time you want to print. (costs about $190)
There’s the LabelWriter 400 ($110) and the LabelWriter 400 Turbo ($140) which are great for express printing right on your desk.
Oh and also, did you notice that I didn’t use the words ‘ink’ or ‘toner’? well, there’s a good reason for that. These beauties don’t use any! they use thermal printing. Never replace a cartridge!
One Response to “Print it right! (without ink or toner)”
March 10th, 2008 at 4:21 am
I use to work from home and had to print out all my own labels and to be honest I found it quite hard work. I would agree that yes these printers are now evolving. However, I believe it will take some time before they reach the standards that professionally printed labels do have. When I was printing all my labels out I had many problems with the printers being faulty and as a result my labels were looking rather tacky and I was not happy to not be able to send out professional looking labels when posting items to my customers. The other problem I have with these printers is that they cost so much money and if they do not work or are temperamental then you end up wasting a lot of money on them, and when you’re paying out so much money on printers and labels you might as well pay for your labels to be printed by a professional so that they reach the high standards your customers would expect. I searched many sites on the internet and finally found a company called Mercian Labels who were able to print all my labels for me at a reasonable price. The company was so efficient that I would never go back to printing my own labels as I believe it is not worth the hassle.
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