Lowest Used Price: USD $25.99
Lowest New Price: USD $17.49
Features :
- Wide range of symbols
- 2-line printing
- 6 character LCD display for easy editing and preview
- ABC keyboard
- Direct-thermal print technology saves you money - no ribbons, ink or toner cartridges needed
Nearly 2 million sold and it's easy to see why. This inexpensive labelmaker makes it easy to label and organize everything around your home. Label files in your home office, organize photo albums, identify light switches and circuit breakers, label food containers in the kitchen, identify garden supplies, and much more. Designed to fit neatly into the palm of your hand, with a simple ABC keyboard ideal for adults and children. Prints labels on 1/2" (12 mm) wide tape in a variety of materials and colors.
Amazon.com Review
Remember those handheld plastic label makers we all had as kids? You'd spin the wheel around and then clamp down when you got to the right letter (and you had to clamp hard to make a mark on that heavy-duty plastic strip). After you got your name out or made a message like "This is mine keep your hands off," you'd discover you spelled "keep" as "kep" and had to start over. Plus, the tape would invariably buckle and fall off wherever you stuck it.
Now label makers have joined the information age. The LetraTag 2000 labelmaker is akin to a handheld word processor, and boy, is it fun to use. There are so many cool little features that you really do need to read the instructions to take full advantage of it. To get started, you just flip up the top of the labelmaker and insert the cartridge. This model comes with 13 feet of standard white tape, but you can purchase extra paper, plastic, or metallic labels in seven different colors. The LetraTag requires six AA batteries, which are not included. Once those are in, you can press the red power button and get started.
The LetraTag defaults to normal text and lowercase letters, but with a little inputting you can create capitals, bold, big bold, italic, outlined, shadowed, or vertical text. It also has a box/underline feature that will surround your text with underlines or rounded, shaded, toothed, or pointed boxes, plus our favorite, the crocodile box (the croc grins at you!). If your labeling area is tight, you can use the two-line feature to double up the text so it prints two lines instead of one. It also provides a host of international letters and accent marks in addition to a range of symbols including a telephone, smiley face, heart, and cat.
As you input your label, what you've typed scrolls across the LCD screen (up to 72 characters). To go back and change your message, just use the arrow keys. When you're ready to print, you can press "shift-print preview" to see your label. Once the label is printed, just press the scissors key and the label will pop off. Handily, the last label made will automatically be retained in memory in case you turn the LetraTag off by accident.
Great for the home or office, kids or adults, the LetraTag is handy and easy to use, and comes in a funky translucent lime-green color. --Dana Van Nest
Amazon.com Product Description
Dymo's 91346 Lime Translucent LetraTag label maker features a six- character LCD screen and optional one- or two-line printing. It accepts 0.5- inch-wide paper, plastic, or metal tape. Easy operation is encouraged with a color-coded keyboard. The LetraTag label maker is designed for the countertop or handheld operation. A built-in tape cutter and easy-peel tab are provided for easy backing removal.
Customer Reviews
customer service is lacking (2007-12-17)
The first unit I purchased was a complete dud. The unit had problems straight out of the package.
Customer service was no better. While they were friendly in their emails, they appeared to be clueless about the product and how to make it workable.
Thankfully the store I purchased it from allowed me to trade it for a different unit. I have had no problems with the replacement unit at the time of this writing.
If you like to gamble with your money, go ahead and get it. If you don't like dealing with less than satisfactory customer service, look to other brands.
just a note (2007-03-31)
I've got this label maker to. It works fine. Couldn't find anything as cheap with so many features.
PROS.
Cost less than most.
Works.
Many features.
Worth it.
Pretty easy to learn from the instructions...I got it the first try.
CONS.
Well, the letters print out pretty close together as if to save
space--I put a space between each letter--no sweat.
I noticed the S and 5 are almost identical just like you see them
on this page. Thats not a bad mark but when the two letters
are close together a quick glance might not be enough to
distinguish between them.
Inexpensive and great for most home/small office uses (2007-02-26)
I have used this label maker for all kinds of projects around the house and our homeschool classroom, and I really love it, for the following reasons:
1. The label maker itself is inexpensive.
2. It is simple & intuitive to use.
3. The replacement cartridges are much less expensive than other brands' refills, and very easy to replace.
4. The labels are pre-split for easy peeling (which is no small thing when you consider how long it can take to peel a label made with many competing products).
5. The labels can be immediately repositioned if necessary, without losing their 'stick'.
6. There is not a lot of wasted label stock from excessive margins, like with other labelers.
There are label makers out there with lots of fancy features and font styles, etc., but this suits my needs more-than-adequately, and at an excellent price. I love it for general indoor-only household/office use, such as labeling file folders, drawers and shelves, containers, spices, books, boxes, etc.
A note: These labels will not stand up to direct sunlight/high-heat applications because they are printed on thermally-sensitive paper. In my opinion they aren't a good choice for outdoors, very sunny areas indoors, or the garage in a hot climate, unless your label is intended to be very temporary.
Interestingly, I have seen fabric iron-on labels available for this label maker, allowing you to label clothing, etc. I haven't tried this feature myself, but I thought it was interesting to mention. My kids hate scratchy flap-type labels in their clothes, especially at the neck, but without them I lose track of valuable size/care information. This would also be great for labeling coats/hats/gloves, etc., which get left behind at parties, parks, etc.
This is not product-specific information, but a thought on labeling in general: I never appreciated how much labeling could improve the flow and function of our lives until I got started. One example: I decided to label the pantry shelves to encourage the kids to put things back in a place that makes sense, knowing this would save everyone time when looking for something. I didn't realize it would completely change grocery shopping, too. Now I can go into the pantry, look at the empty spots on the shelves, and 'voila!', my shopping list is nearly done and more comprehensively than before. Less time to create the list and fewer forgotten items. Besides, it stays much neater-looking in there! I am not an obsessively organized person, but I do appreciate a little order in my life. Labeling is an easy way to achieve a little of that, and it's actually kind of fun. $20-ish bucks for a little more time and a little less chaos isn't bad.
Good printing, Very poor label material! (2007-02-08)
I bought this as an occasional-use product, not wanting to spend 50 bucks for a labeler. It works pretty well -- but the included labels won't stick to ANYTHING! I've tried them on wood, paper, metal, and plastic and they fall off within hours. I plan to get a replacement label refill and try that. Maybe the glue was old. Otherwise it's OK for household use.
Easy to use (2007-01-30)
I thought the lack of the querty keyboard would slow me down. It didn't. This is an excellent labeler for only $20. I figured out how to make labels with different fonts, boxes, 2 lines, etc., in about 5 minutes, without reading the manual. The only small wish I might ask for is higher resolution print like the Brother labeler does. My wife uses that one. However, the labels with the split in the backing really makes this labeler superior for me. The Brother doesn't have the split backing and I've spent two or three minutes per label trying to peel the back off the Brother's labels. My son likes Dymo's alligator box outline. I like the BIG fonts option. I'm off to label some stuff that probably doesn't need a label, but I have new toy.
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