It's a personal preference thing. If you are planning a large garden with lots of plants do your home work. Shop around and make sure you have made the right decision for labels. You don't want to change in the middle of the stream. I use a HP Laser Jet printer. Prints on Avery Easy Peel clear address labels. 30 labels... 1" x 2 5/8 per sheet. I key the names in on Microsoft Word. It prints them off in seconds. Once applied on tag they never discolor or deteriorate. You must use a Laser Jet printer. Since you don't have a Laser Jet then give careful consideration to the Brothers. They work very well inside. I am not familiar with their ability to with stand the outside elements. rick? Dave

Here's my latest attempt. Uninstalled the software everywhere I could find it. Did an Error Check and then a defrag. Rebooted. Downloaded the software again. Disconnected the printer and reconnected it accoriding to instructions on the Quck Start poster that came with my printer. After installation, I did a manual test page, which printed out fine. I made sure the printer is listed as the default. But when I tried yet again to print from a computer file, yet again nothing happened. If I had a cd, I don't now. That's strange because I have the cd for my scanner,which is older than my printer. I also have cd's that came with my first computer, years ago. But no printer cd. There is still an explanation in front of the Printer Port in the DM, and the printer is still not listed there. The link you gave, grandms, didn't help, unfortunately. I will go to the hp site to locate the live person when I have the time to devote to it. I've spent so much time on this, my RL is slipping, and I have to catch up. Thanks to everyone who has tried so hard to help me. If any more ideas occur to anyone, just post it. I'll be checking back here, as I always do. I love this site. Dee

I should have come here yesterday early in the morning. Thank you, thank you. Several times you have helped solve my problems.........I did go to the link again, this time I saw that there was a specific method for Windows 7......I had no idea that installing the disc would have an option for uninstall.......I used the disc..........This old thing prints again Thanks, zep, owbist.and damccoy

terrapots, You asked "Can you run other devices through the same USB port," -- Yes. "or can you connect through a parallel port or serial port?" -- Don't have either. (The printer originally went through a parallel port; had to get a "conversion" plug to connect to USB on this computer.) "sounds like something in the printer is dead or a bad contact." -- That's what I figured. But I wanted opinions from this forum because I've received help here previously.