Printing Labels Should Be Easy, But for 20 Years Many Have Persisted With a Cumbersome Method

For more than a decade and a half there has been anIf you're looking for the most compelling reason to buy
alternative to the struggle of printing labels on sheets.a personal label printer, think convenience. You get free
What we're saying here is that there are thousands ofsoftware that is so fundamental to use, and you can
people, if not millions, who use a whole sheet of labelseven print out of software like Word, Outlook, ACT!,
just to print a label or two. It's a total waste of time, it'sGoldmine and QuickBooks with just a click or two of
a waste of paper and it's a waste of money.your mouse - there is no retyping of addresses.
Some will present the fact that you can keep re-usingThe other part of the convenience factor is that you
the sheet of labels until all the labels are gone, so theredon't need to load a sheet of labels into your Laser or
would be no wastage. Wise point, but there isn't aInkjet printer every time you need a label. With a
printer maker in existence that will recommend youDymo LabelWriter, the labels are on rolls, and when
doing this, and we will describe why in due course.one label is printed, the LabelWriter cues the next label
Then there's the argument that sheet labels are cheapinto the print-head, ready for action.
(per label) when compared to the alternatives. AnotherSee if you can find any recommendations (in the user
Wise call, but it isn't just about the cost of the labels,manual) against re-feeding used sheet labels into your
you need to factor in the cost of ink, toner or ribbonsInkjet or Laser printer. There isn't a printer
and time. Printing a single label or just a few labels on amanufacturer in the world that proposes this exercise
Laser or Inkjet takes longer than the alternativeand there are many reasons why.
solution.First, once a sheet of labels has traveled through a
So let's discuss just exactly what the 'alternative' is.printer and a label has been peeled off, the subsequent
The answer to all the pain of printing on sheet labels istime the sheet is re-fed through the printer, there is a
known as the 'personal label printer'. They have beenvery high chance that the labels surrounding the
around for 16 years. That's right, 16 years, yet so manymissing one will peel off.
people still waste time, effort and money printing onNext in line is the fact that in most printers nowadays,
sheet labels.the path that the sheet of labels takes while traveling
The most popular personal label printer nowadays isthrough the printer is very condensed and sharp. Grab
the Dymo LabelWriter. The LabelWriter is a smalla sheet of labels and wrap it around anything that is
office tool that serves just one very important purposeround and thin - like a Sharpie for example. You will
- printing professional looking labels. You can printprobably notice that the labels will start to peel off, and
anything from address and shipping labels, right thru tothat is what actually happens inside a lot of the newer
file folder labels, name badges and even labels for thesleeker printers we buy these days.
center of CD's or DVD's.Another reason printer manufacturers don't
But what makes this device so much better than usingrecommend re-using sheet labels is that the glue from
sheet labels? The answer is only too simple, andthe labels can bleed or leak into and onto the print
we've already touched on the subject. The answer ishead or laser mechanism, causing is to eventually
that it is distinctly designed to print labels. It doesn'tglue-up and jam.
serve any other function. The whole product fromThere are so many more reasons why people opt for
concept to conclusion centers around printing labels.a personal label printer like the Dymo LabelWriter over
But it does go much deeper than that. There are manyprinting on sheet labels. The strange thing is that these
advantages of using a Dymo LabelWriter over sheetprinters have existed for 16 years and people are still
labels, and when you are talking about printing like oneonly just catching on because they believe they have
label, two labels, three labels or even a hundred labelsa future use for them. As long as we need labels,
at a time, the absolute convenience of the Dymowe're going to need a personal label printer.
LabelWriter will make it the wise selection.