Mallory's Musings & MischiefMay 22

I got a label maker and had the strangest experience. I opened the box, loaded the sample roll of label ribbon, inserted 6(!) AAA batteries, and it worked.

No apps to download. No account to log into. No firmware updates. No pop-over "helpful tips" about how it's "now enabled with AI" or whatever.

I just typed in the label I wanted and hit "print", and it did it. Astonishing. Nostalgic.

Show threadFurryBetaMay 22
@malcircuit Had a technician’s label maker from them at work. Worked great. Should’ve kept it when I quit, because they don’t make that model any more
Show threadBaral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲May 23
@FurryBeta @malcircuit Even their regular P-Touch label makers are super useful tho. I have the big brother to this machine, the PT-D400, and I've made *so many* labels around the house with it! They're not terribly expensive either, and the cheap aftermarket TZe tapes work just fine with it too
Show threadFurryBeta
@baralheia @malcircuit I really need to look at getting one, because yeah, they’re handy to have around and are more legible than my hand writing on a Brady fabric label
May 23 at 3:48pmWeb
Show threadBaral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲May 23
@FurryBeta @malcircuit funny that, if you need fabric labels, Brother has you covered there too:
Show threadRetMay 23
@baralheia @FurryBeta @malcircuit dread to think how much the “official” ones of these are…
Show threadBaral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲May 23

@ret @FurryBeta @malcircuit $26 USD for 9.8 feet (3m) worth of 1/2" (12mm) wide iron-on fabric labels.

Aftermarket is *much* more affordable, at around $5 USD each in a multipack on Amazon or eBay.

Show threadRetMay 23
@baralheia @FurryBeta @malcircuit same story with the heat shrink tubing (which is excellent btw)
Show threadFurryBetaMay 23
@ret @baralheia @malcircuit Yeah, the Brother branded cartridges are not cheap. For consumer level printers, they use the razor blade model of pricing: cheap printer, expensive tape. Of course when you look at the “professional” printers, then both printer and tape are expensive!
Show threadBaral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲May 23
@FurryBeta @malcircuit but yeah, these things are pretty great and there's tons of support (both first-party and aftermarket) for tapes in various materials and such. If you have a need to label things, they're well worth the investment. The PT-D410 is probably the best bang for your buck - it supports label tapes up to 3/4" wide, and works great standalone - but you can also connect it to a Win/Mac PC via USB to design labels if you wish.
Show threadFurryBetaMay 23

@baralheia @malcircuit That wasn’t what I was referring to to, but still neat! I didn’t know they made iron-on labels!

I grabbed a kept of packs of these when I left: https://www.bradyid.com/labels/inventory/write-on-blank-labels-cps-3089410?part-number=WO-56-PK