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Used for: 1–3 months
Saved templates make a batch a couple of taps
White on clear needs a cassette that is not included
Runs the labelling for a small preserves business off a kitchen table. Batch number, date, allergen line, all three on an 18mm label that sits neatly across the lid of a jar. I set the templates up in the app once and now it is a couple of taps per batch. The one grumble is that it will not print white on clear tape in the way the marketing photos suggest — you need the specific cassette for that, and it is not the one in the box!
Used for: 6–12 months
Works nowhere near a plug
Batteries go quickly if you leave it switched on
Runs off six AA batteries in the van and has never once let me down
Used for: 3–6 months
Sticks in an unheated shed
Small screen means scrolling to check a long label
Seed tins, propagator trays and the shed shelf have all been done with it since the spring. Tape has not lifted once out in a cold shed, which the sticky paper labels I used before never managed past Christmas.
Used for: Less than a month
Laminated tape survives small fingers
The mains adapter is an extra
Bought for a primary classroom and a whole wall of peg labels was done before the kettle boiled. The 12mm black on white reads from across the room, and because it laminates them the little ones can pick at them all they like!
Used for: 3–6 months
Flexible ID tape actually stays wrapped on a cable
The app is slow to reconnect over Bluetooth
Ordered it for a comms cabinet that had grown into a wall of patch leads with nothing written on any of them. Flexible ID tape wraps round a cable and stays wrapped, which is the whole reason for buying this over a cheap one. The keyboard is quicker than the phone app for short runs, though the app is better when you want a barcode on the end.
Used for: 6–12 months
Fabric tape survives an industrial laundry
Fabric cassettes are harder to get hold of than the plain ones
We label residents' clothing and toiletries with it in a care home, and the fabric tape has been through the industrial laundry without a single label coming adrift. Ten months in and we are on our fourth cassette.
Used for: 1–3 months
Getting a tape cassette seated takes a knack
The freezer test was the one that mattered, and laminated tape has been on the containers for eight weeks now without curling.
Used for: 6–12 months
Print quality is genuinely excellent
Every label throws away a leader, so short runs eat cassettes
Prints beautifully, but the running cost is where the smile fades. A TZe cassette is not cheap and you get through them faster than you expect, because every label throws away about an inch of leader before it starts. Printing a handful of short labels in a row wastes more tape than the labels themselves use.
Used for: 1–3 months
Came to this after years of a cheap Dymo that ate D1 tape and printed labels which peeled off in a fortnight. The difference is not subtle. Tape from this one is laminated, so the print is sandwiched inside plastic rather than sitting on top of it, and nothing has lifted off a shelf edge yet. Two things worth knowing. The Bluetooth app is the reason to buy this model rather than the cheaper keyboard-only one, because typing a long location code on a tiny QWERTY is misery and pasting it from a phone is not. But the app will not talk to the printer while the printer is also plugged into a laptop, which took me an evening to work out. Auto-cut is quick, the case has survived being carried round a warehouse, and the print head has not needed a thought.
Used for: More than a year
Cuts the tape itself, cleanly
Wastes a leader at the start of every label
Every drawer in the workshop finally says what is in it!
Used for: Less than a month
Only one tape cassette in the box
Straight out of the box and labelling jam jars within minutes