Shipping Label Printers - Recommendations?

[swiss_expert_uk]

Hi all, can anyone recommend a label printer that I can use to print self adhesive Royal Mail shipping and customs labels please? Currently I use a standard printer and paper I can no longer stand the cutting and sellotaping! 🤪 thank you. 

[bojangled]

I’m a big fan of the Jaden. Works from any device, easy set up, excellent print quality. Have a look on YouTube for some reviews.

Had it for around 2 years.

I’m sure others will be along with other recommendations.

@swiss_expert_uk 

Jo

[swiss_expert_uk]

Thank you I’ll take a look. 

[darth_baggins]

I recently got a Beeprt BY243 from eBay for about £80. Cracking little printer, takes the RM labels and is pretty quick and so far reliable.

[jokers_toybox]

I picked up a munbyn, great printer, works with rolls or fan feed labels, but also does a variety of other fancy labels

[moldosgifts]

Zebra thermal printers are by far the best bit pricey , but they just work, i have one for my business so as you can imagine it prints allot, had it 4 years not a spot of bother.

[jokers_toybox]

I had a zebra (still do) but I got fed up of it wasting 2 labels every day for "calibration" 

[moldosgifts]

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@jokers_toybox wrote:

I had a zebra (still do) but I got fed up of it wasting 2 labels every day for "calibration" 

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I've never calibrated mine never needed to it just worked straight out of the box.

The label you can get for free from royal mail business account ordering consumables

[jokers_toybox]

they called it calibration, it was an ex dhl printer, just annoyed, super reliable 8yrs on but that wastage just annoyed me, free labels or not 

[moldosgifts]

So you bought a second hand printer dhl have hard set shipping labels set to their printers , you need the zebra calibration tool to override, but its testament to how reliable they are DHL would have used it to death themselves then it lasted a further 8yrs and counting,

The only wastage i have is when we have a power cut it then spits one label out, that i then use for something else.

Even invoices are reused hear so very little is wasted. our oldest accounts get reused when no longer needed.

[jokers_toybox]

I tried everything under the sun, I used to switch it off every night so that didn't help, the munbyn is great though it does little holographic sticker I can put on my products and takes up waaaaay less space, plus I can use the zebra if it goes pear shaped

[swiss_expert_uk]

Thanks everyone this is a great help. Cheers! 

[fatbobfan]

Zing was cheap and works fine, not used much

Dymo - Used Daily, Good physical product, Software issues with Windows updates which is a mare, Dont buy original labels, alternatives  work fine despite the manufacturers worries (15 years no issues) 

[moldosgifts]

I'll look up that munbyn sounds interesting

[4_bathrooms]

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@fatbobfan wrote:

Dymo - Used Daily, Good physical product, Software issues with Windows updates which is a mare, Dont buy original labels, alternatives  work fine despite the manufacturers worries (15 years no issues) 

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The newer 5th generation Dymo printers have firmware that only accepts original Dymo labels - there is an NFC chip in the cardboard core of their newer label stocks. For that reason they don't even accept older Dymo-branded label stock as it won't have the NFC chip. It's a pity really as my 4XL has been going strong for many years but when it needs replacing (if ever) it will be replaced with a Zebra. 

[fatbobfan]

Ouch, what a cash cow

I pay £1.60 a roll of 260 for a LW450on this platform

The same product from Dymo-Express, guessing they are affiliated comes in at £6.70

I have a spare, they often come up cheap on selling platforms, had mine for close to 15 years now

[willrose-elec]

Definitely Zebra. Had mine 10 years and do 1000+ labels a month.

[rainbowtrax]

We have a GPrinter GP-1324D, use it daily and haven't had a single problem. It takes generic label rolls so you can buy unbranded. You can usually find them new for around 60 quid.

[bzmotman]

Completely agree. Done 5000+ labels with no problems so far. My model is GK420d.