Dymo LM 160 VP PRINTER QWERTY

EDIT: March 12th 2016. Six months down the line and my little machine has broken. I bought a mains charger so it didn't gobble up batteries and it was used maybe once a week for about 20 minutes at a time. It suddenly decided it was fed up with printing and so started to spew out copious amounts of tape with no print on it. However, if you held it up to the light you could faintly see the outline of the writing on it. I contacted Dymo and one of their associates took me through the process of attempting to find the fault. This didn't work so on receipt of proof of purchase and a photo showing the non-existing printing I was immediately offered a replacement. I duly produced the evidence and packaged the offending article back to Dymo (freepost). I then sent them a copy of the proof of postage and the next day after the phone call to Dymo I received an email telling me a replacement had been dispatched. Thanks Dymo. Good customer service is obviously one of their strong points and it is so refreshing to experience it.I am totally in love with my little label maker. For years I have been writing on 2ml perfume decant bottles with tiny writing. Granted I do have rather nice handwriting because I study calligraphy but the old eyeballs are not as sharp as they once were and tiny writing has to take a back seat now. I will come clean though. I actually called the Dymo company and explained what I needed one for especially as some of the more expensive models only seemed to have larger font/tape sizes.Thanks to Rick who took the time and trouble to tell me what I needed I now have a very modestly priced machine to make proper printed labels and all topped off with sticky backs so I don't have to put clear sellotape over the labels anymore.I also want to say how easy it is to use. I haven't tried to use any of the more elaborate symbols etc. but then I can't actually foresee a need to use them. Besides if I do, there is an excellent review by a fellow reviewer who actually went to a lot of trouble to compare it against another brand of label maker which is well worth checking out to see which would be best for your needs.I am also something of a luddite when it comes to modern technological gadgets. If anyone can break them within minutes I can. Even an abacus is not safe in my hands.But this little machine is a dream. I had it up and running within minutes of it arriving and will now probably spend a lot of time making little stickers for perfume bottles. I think I will invest in a 9volt adapter though as I can imagine it will whizz through 6 AAA batteries in no time. Also it will be interesting to see how many labels one replacement tape will make. I know they are much longer than the one given with the machine.Just for interest here is a photo of the first tape I made. One of the letters was a little squished but each one afterwards came out fine. I used font size 8 and it fits a 1ml perfume decant perfectly.

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Bottom line = I love this label maker. We had this label maker at work for several years, and when I wanted one for home I researched lots of options, but settled on this one as it has never caused any issues at work... And once you start labelling things you won't want to stop...I particularly love labelling my Tupperware storage containers with clear labels, and have labelled all my plugs and sockets... there are several different sizes of fonts, you can do bold, italic, underline, and even vertical text, there are also little graphic images you can add, you can get lots of different colours of tape, and switching them over is a breeze... You can buy a power adapter, but I just use batteries, and they seem to last a pretty long time.I have also dropped it several times, and it is rugged and has no sign of any damage, just in case you worry about that sort of thing. It is fairly heavy (with all the batteries in), so you'll probably want to lie it on a surface to create labels of any length, but it is more than portable enough to carry around labelling as you go.I know that there are fancier label printing machines out there, but the simple to use, affordable, well made Dymo LabelMaker 160 is all you probably need!

I've always wanted one of these and probably bought it too late in life.Great for labelling filing cabinet file tags and folder spines.Can print vertically tooEast to use.Nice fontLost a star due to:Inadequate manual.Fiddly to get the backing off the labelsNeeds 6 AAA batteries!Will only print two lines with reduced font size.Large area of tape a third top and bottom, cannot be printed on