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Used for: More than a year
Two Christmas seasons without a hiccup
Direct thermal fades if the roll sits in the light
Our little shop sends about eighty parcels a week in the run-up to Christmas, and this has done two of those seasons now without a murmur. The labels have to live in a drawer rather than on the windowsill, because direct thermal fades in sunlight, but that is the technology rather than the printer. Calibration after a roll change is one button and about four seconds of feeding.
Used for: 3–6 months
Perfectly happy sitting unused all week
The bundled software is aimed at warehouses
This runs the despatch for a one-woman jewellery business, which means thirty or forty labels on a Sunday evening and nothing at all midweek. Four months in, it is plainly the right machine for that. No ribbon to dry out, no ink, no warm-up: press print and the labels come out faster than I can stick them on. Third-party rolls have been fine, which was the thing I worried about most after reading the horror stories, though you do have to run the calibration once when you change brand. The only real gripe is the software. Zebra's own is written for warehouses rather than for somebody making one label at a time, so I print from the courier's website instead and everything works.
Used for: 3–6 months
A postage label in about two seconds
Sits on a shelf above the packing table and prints a postage label in about two seconds. The peel is clean, the barcode scans at the Post Office counter first time, and there is nothing to run out of but labels!
Used for: 6–12 months
Works on a Mac with the generic driver
The roll goes in the opposite way to expectation
Set up on a Mac, which the box does not promise, and it worked with the generic driver in about ten minutes. It has printed every label the courier's site has thrown at it since, and the only thing I have had to learn is which way up the roll goes so they come out the right way round!
Used for: More than a year
Lives quite happily on a kitchen table
Labels fade if they are left in the light
Prints thousands of labels a year from a kitchen table and has never once complained
Used for: 6–12 months
Direct thermal labels fade in sunlight
Cheap, quick, and it has never jammed on us
Used for: 1–3 months
Cheaper per parcel than sheet labels
One label width and that is your lot
Bought when the postage labels stopped fitting neatly on A4 sheets. Cheaper per parcel, quicker, and nobody has to feed a sheet through by hand