Label makers

[Two Speed]

Eating batteries: Lots of electronics just use the "off" to turn off the display, calipers, flashlights, radios, etc. Just about everything is still active sucking back on the electrons. If there is a real switch to turn it off, different story. usually. But soft switches need standby power to operate, and at low price points don't expect much going into a good standby circuit. Just pop the batteries or boredom permitting wire in your own switch to kill a line from the batteries.

 

[rburke65]

Brother P-touch...I have one...maybe it's my personality, but typing on that little screen...then waiting forever for it to print (zzhhzzzhhhh), then it prints out 2 extra inches of label that I have to cut off with scissors, then I have to somehow peel the backing paper off with stubby fingernails and pick the tiny pieces of backing paper off the floor...repeat for all 64 drawers in my organizer. And the labels are still pretty small...

First world problems I guess

A Brothers P-touch here also ….that I like, but agree with the excessive waste of blank tape before and after it finishes

 

[ecotec]

I do hate that it makes the label way too long

Scissors.

 

[Sumboodie]

Scissors.

Yeah, just a pain to go find scissors.

 

[Jsf721]

Brady at work is awesome just too much money for home. I have a brother p touch from Costco and it’s great.

 

[Milton Shaw]

The secret to label length is to do long labels with a couple of spaces between such as: screwdrivers wrenches sockets etc. then print a foot long label and cut them out. That makes each label us less than half the tape individual labels will take. I did that with my medicines to label the top of each to make it easier to find without having to read each pharmacy label.

 

[kylefitz]

Yeah, just a pain to go find scissors.

I keep my label maker, all the extra tapes, a pair of scissors, and a small pair of tweezers in a plastic tote above the work bench. Tweezers make applying labels to bins much easier.