Really really like my brother p-touch. Use it for gardening, labeling kitchen/canning stuff. A real trooper. Intuitive, battery powered, peelable labels and many choices of fonts/sizes. Don't get a used one. Buy your labels in spools of three ... when you plug in your third roll .... order three more.

Thanks, bragu. I’m going to see if I can find one like yours. Model #?

Mine is an older model -- Brother P-touch 1750. I use it mainly for gardening labels. It produces a good quality label.

Judy and bragu,

I also garden, but I wonder if these label come off in wet weather or fade in sunlight.

I suppose I should get one with an AC power brick?

I also garden, but I wonder if these label come off in wet weather or fade in sunlight.

No, they hold up just fine. Here are some of mine.

Judi, so neat! I am blown away. I do not have good penmanship and I sometime re-use those plasric labels and cannot rease the previous writing.

I say that, but this year’s and last year’s ” garden are a mess. I’ve had a problematic arm 9along with other issues. Then for a good chunk or May, almost all of June, and now the majority of July, it has been very wet, rainy, soggy or hot and humid. I wilt at 85 deg F and 80% relative humidity. I might as well become a mushroom. I remember when summers were not so crazy hot and muggy.

Thanks for showing me. I looked at a lot of label makers. Less choice fo simple label makers that there was a few years ago. And that simple DYMO letraTag has doubled in price (3-4 years).

I just replaced my vintage decades old Brother P Touch with another Brother. PTH110 seemed to be one of the more simple styles offered. It sees a little household use (storage boxes, herbs I've grown, dried and jarred myself etc) and a whole lot of garden labels. I think those labels will outlive me. They do not fade or come off. I would usually buy clear tape, black lettering but this particular model came with 3 tape cartridges of white tape, black ink. Fine with me ;)

I also use a P-touch. I think we bought it at one of the office supply stores several years aho (Staples, Office Depot). I also use mine on plastic plant stakes like Judi shows, and on the metal ones with 2 prongs. They last forever. We use them for other things around the house too such as labeling storage boxes on shelves, file folders, travel bottles.

I used a Ptouch for years. It is still around somewhere though I havent been able to get out for a while.

Thanks everyone. I am still perusing and learning.

It turns out the units stiil use some measure of battdry juice even when ”off” so that the memory with your text or settings is maintained. Some people just remove the batteries or disconnect them.

It can be hard to remember to remove all alkaline battieies from the many gadgets we have in our homes. Like morz8, I have had gadgets ruined by old batteries that have leaked.

Ours runs on 110v or battery so I just keep it in the utility room and plug it in as needed.

I also have a P-Touch. Mine is several years old and has two things I don't like about it, although it does print very nice labels. (1.) When it prints the label, it creates a lot of space before and after the print, so a lot of label tape is wasted. Perhaps they no longer do that. And (2.) The cartridges are expensive. I'd recommend checking the cost of your refill cartridges before purchasing, to make sure you are good with it.

Thanks again for helping me out with choosing a label maker. (I am voice to text and I will try to pay attention to goofs as this program creates a lot of them.)

I’m one of those nerdy people I suppose. I sort of get a kick out of gadgets but I also like reading reviews and thinking and researching a bit before I buy. I can get carried away and spend more time than I should evaluating the various details. If I spent the same hours babysitting somebody’s dog I could probably buy 10 of the most expensive labelers.

Your input was very a valuable and helpful because you gave me a lot of good information to think about and I came up with some labelers that I think rank the best in different categories and I’ll talk to you via in a minute. This may take a long Post cell if you want to just Peru’s by our not bother that’s OK I won’t be offended. PERUSE.

My criteria was pretty basic (I think):

• QWERTY keyboard layout
• Vertical printing
• Power block for AC to save on batteries — want this option
• Display that is readable not so faint. May be backlit. A lot of the Brother LCDs get critical comments
• Tiny font (would like) — most of the P-Touch label makers only have small, medium and large. The DYMO LetraTag offers Ex Large, Large, Medium, Small, Ex-Small. However is has a good clear LCD Display, but only one regular font.
• Cable printing
• Preview
• Optional margin settings to conserve tape

Brother is the predominant label maker in the US and maybe elsewhere. I found three models that I thought were worth recommending or at least looking over. If I recall correctly all of them will print vertically (handy for things like book bindings or perhaps labels). Add all of them will take an AC power block charger or adapter so that you do not have to use batteries. And I think all of them would print labels for cables easily.

The three models that I found most appealing, and they are different price ranges, are:

• Brother PTH110 — about $30
• ❗️Brother PT-D210 — about $50 with labels as a Prime Day deal
• Brother PT-D610BT — about $85

I believe I recollect somebody mentioning that posting a particular vendors URL address isn’t prohibited, but I will just say I looked at vendors such as Staples and Walmart and found their prices appreciably higher than Jeff’s.

If you plug-in any of those label maker model numbers into the big river/Jeff’s place you will come up with some results.

I was tempted to get all of these or anyone of them. The first to have the LCD display that is often criticized for not being particularly sharp and tweaking it doesn’t help the contrast for intensity very much so. Because poor displays bugged me I opted for one that gave better illumination. In fact it’s in color. But it comes at a price. I chose the Brother PT-D610BT because it has a lot of nice features and is overkill and cost more than I need to pay and is a nerds delight. You can hook it up through Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to a PC, laptop or a smart phone or device like an iPad or tablet. It comes with software or you can download a little editing program that lets you do essentially desktop publishing and you can print out just about any font you can imagine. I think it uses to type fonts that you can edit and maneuver. And if you are interested you can go to any of the reviews or you could look online at various venues to see what I mean.

I don’t need any of this, but when I first looked at it it wasn’t that much more expensive than the brother a PT-D210 (which was $63 before the Prime day markdown). I also got the other egg head in the house to take a look at it because I wasn’t sure if I could use the LabelMaker as standalone and get the features I wanted without having it connected by USB cable, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to my PC or smart device. So he got a little “hooked,” but he would have been fine getting the less expensive one at the top of my list. The answer to my question was yes, as a standalone the D6 10 can be used just like any other LabelMaker and you get a choice of I think 17 fonts, various sizes, a color display and could use various size tapes you have a greater selection of options.

I found a nice little case for it (not the one made by brother which people did not like). In fact I found it made a note of cases for the other two on my list. And I think I might’ve saved links for the Optional AC power blocks/chargers for the PTH110 and the PT-D210.

When I get the LabelMaker and play around with it a little bit I will let you know what I think.

I will make another post commenting on the wasted tape issue that Bluebell66 referred to.

In looking through the reviews and images on A, I came across a good and concise explanation for how to limit wasted label tape. I took a screenshot of it and I think it will be self explanatory. Thank you for taking the time, Mrs. Johnson!

Most label makers let you do what I do to save on tape.

Avoid printing each label independently because the device with use the necessary inch at the lead, but also advance the tape (wasted, blank) so that you can access your label.

Instead, plan ahead a bit and make several labels, with a couple of spaces between them before you print and cut. You can then use scissors to snip between each label.

Using the ”Preview” feature can allow you to view the approximate spacing as well as ensure there are no errors.

Tapes are expensive. There are third party vendors. Some users want to stick with the propriety (manufacture’s) brand, others find third part tape acceptable. One A******* reviewer acompared different tapes. If you want the tape to hold up outdoors, you may want to use the Brother’s laminated tape.