What label printer?

[A-Non-eMouse]

hi

does anyone know of a decent label machine that can print in a size that will be readable under an mcb.

eg.

upstairs
sockets

so it will fit under an mcb in a consumer unit. they have a brother pt touch one at work but the fonts a little too large. i imagine it would have to be in a 2 x 2 cm square. scissors are available to

cheers

 

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[Phil]

i have the dymo. about 20 £ and good for the job been dropped a few times and still works

 

[ghost]

I use the Brother PT 7600, great bit of kit.

 

[DurhamSparky]

i got a dymo printer that i "borrowed" from the royal navy before i left..... them nice guys also gave me 20 packs of batteries and over 70 packs of tape cartridges!! how am i ver goinng to use all them!

 

[allsparkjonny]

always used a dymo,cheap and never failed

 

[Guest123]

I got one of them big orange brother ones....dont know the model number though

It does mains board circuit labels though.

 

[RhinoKing]

i have the dymo. about 20 £ and good for the job been dropped a few times and still works

Hi Phil, judging by the picture I'd say that was a LetraTAG machine. We sell those at our Dymo site, but wouldn't really recomend them for electricians. They're really home based consumer labellers and labels. It should be ok if you're just sticking them to clean flat surfaces and don't need the electical symbols or advanced features.

The problem is that the adhesive isn't strong enough to hold in dirty/dusty environments, and the label material is not ideal for curved surfaces and especially not labelling cables. Once you apply it to a curved surface the label will try to get back to it's original shape (flat!) and this combined with the standard adhesive it will tend to 'ping' off after a while if you try to put it either length ways along the cable or create a flag label. So you may come back a week later and find all your labels sitting in a pile on the floor...

The RhinoPRO labels on the other hand are designed to be extra sticky and the Nylon, Vinyl and self laminating labels are ideal for cabling as they don't try to ping back to their original shape and have extra strong adhesives. You can also print directly on to heat shrink tubing.

The RhinoPRO printers also have extra features useful for electricians, such as the module label feature which is useful for labelling consumer units (the one on the right in the following image):

I got one of them big orange brother ones....dont know the model number though

That would probably be either a PT-7500 or PT-7600 machine. But, I would go for the RhinoPRO 5200 KIT at the moment as they are quite a bit cheaper with the current £40 cashback offer. (Unless you need 24mm tapes or PC connectivity in which case you'd need the RhinoPRO 6000 kit). We sell both the RhinoPRO and Brother printers btw, so we can offer independant advice.

 

[Mark_Burgess]

The cash back offer was only valid until 18th February according to the promo link, why dont they just discount it £40 in the first place?

 

[RhinoKing]

The cash back offer was only valid until 18th February according to the promo link

Ooooh, my bad. I attempted to cut out two stages (choose your language, choose your printer) of the promo site and send the user directly to the correct page. However, they seem to have done the promo site in a weird way and it looks like if you haven't been through the first few pages it defaults you to the French promo with different dates. Worked fine for me when I put the links in because I'd already been through the first few pages so I guess I had a cookie or something... I've changed the link on my site now so you should get to the correct page with the correct dates.

why dont they just discount it £40 in the first place?

Don't know about that - it's a manufacturer promo, but I'm sure their marketing dept have some reason for it. They'd probably give some marketing mumbo jumbo about £100 printer with £40 cashback is seen as 'more valuable' than a printer allegedly worth £100 that is discounted to £60. If they're selling a quality product they don't want it discounted as it makes it look 'cheap'. Better to retain it's 'value' and then just give you some (of your own) money back at a later date.

Also, it would allow some people to buy via their company then pocket the cash themselves...

I guess it also lets them control the promo - ie. this way when the promo period ends then the promo stops dead. If they offered the machines to resellers at a £40 discount then there'd be nothing to stop one big supplier from buying 2 years worth of printers at the reduced price then when the manufacture put the prices back up at the end of the promo all the resellers would have to buy them in at the original expensive price, while the reseller with all the stock can under cut everyone else by £40 and sell tons of printers. Obviously that would annoy all the other resellers who would see their sales drop through the floor and would then threaten to drop the whole product line unless they got the reduced pricing again. Then the manufacturer would end up permanently selling the printer at a loss, or very small profit, when it had only intended to sell it at that price for a few months to boost sales of a new product...

Probably. Just guessing. I just sell the stuff...

Seems everyone is doing it these days though - especially with laser printers - so there must be some good reason for it.

 

[Octopus]

Cash back, direct to the end user, allows the manufacturer to identfy the users and direct mail them there after - allowing them to (potentially) bypass their distributors and resellers in the future.