Printer Needed for Printing Labels but Which One !!!!

funkydresser

Hi all

Any help you can provide will be gratefully received. I need to buy a printer for printing high glossy labels for my sweetie jars. To be honest I don't have a clue where to start looking, someone recommended an Epsom workforce?

Hope someone can help

securityguy

I've got an elderly Brother PT9200 label printer, roughly the equivalent of the current PT2430, although mine does 36mm as well while the current one only goes up to 24mm. I bought it as a mail-order return or obsolete stock about twelve years ago, and I suspect it'll go on forever: PT tape is still current, so consumables are easy. It's incredibly useful, even if it does irritate me that it requires me to keep my last Windows instance going just for its benefit (the drivers are XP or OS9 only, so the only practical way to run it is with a Windows XP virtual machine on one of my Macs).

However, I've stopped using it for jam, because laminated labels which are dishwasher-proof are overkill for labelling marmalade where, pretty much by definition, you won't wash the jar until after the label's ceased to be relevant. For that, I just print a sheet of labels onto paper sticky address labels, which is cheaper and faster.

funkydresser

Hi Many Thanks for your reply.

which printer do you use for printing your sticky labels

marlot

I use a brother ql500. My wife liked it so much she also bought one for her business - I think hers is a QL550.

No faults, no label jams in 6 or 7 years of use, including all the christmas card labels each year.

securityguy

funkydresser wrote: »

Hi Many Thanks for your reply.

which printer do you use for printing your sticky labels

A standard A4 inkjet printer (Brother again, by coincidence, but anything will do it). Just buy a packet of A4 sticky label stock, use the software on the Avery website to fill a sheet with the same design, and you're good to go.