If you are like me and like to send quiet a lot of items in the post it can be pretty tedious filling out envelopes and while most printers can print onto standard sized envelopes they cant usually deal with things like jiffies bags.
The dymo is a simple little printer aimed solely at printing little adhesive labels which you stick onto parcels, jiffy bags and packages. You can also make little labels to stick onto things, I labelled up some of my storage boxes with contents.
The package came with a usb cable, software cd, initial roll of labels and thermal paper. The drivers were easy to install and integrated with Word, and my address book. The software works for both PC (Windows XP) and Apple Macintosh though you would have to go onto dymo's website to get it to work with the very latest Macs.
I bought the dymo from Misco (www.msico.co.uk) for 55 pounds plus delivery. It was actually an end of line item the 400 series has replaced the 300.
Companies like Avery Make laser labels which are sheets of labels you can feed through an ordinary printer. Avery labels work but personally I prefer the convince of having a single device for the job. Also when I used avery labels I found I ended up wasting loads when I left sheets in the printer or forgot to change the label to print onto.
Printing speed and quality is great the label is there a few seconds after clicking print. Even on big runs it seems to cope well, newer and turbo models are faster.
Labels work out about 3 pence each which seems reasonable enough, ive gone through several packs of labels without having to change the ink so it seems to be pretty cost effective. Be sure to shop around for supplies they vary greatly in price.
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Reliability
Excellent
Design
Good
Range of extra features / functions
Satisfactory
Instruction manual
Good
Manufacturer Support
Good
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