I have used some of the Dymo products (not the old embossing type, though they're popular for their retro charm). They work well if you get the paper-based labels but the plastic labels are poor on all but plastic surfaces. If you fold them in half to mark a wire they unfold and unstick themselves, and the same can happen on cardboard boxes.
The latest versions also have DRM to force you to buy their refills. I think this has now been broken but not necessarily well enough to buy compatible products - more to allow you to refill the cartridge. I will try to get some paper labels for my older machine but if I replace it I will probably look at Brother and Casio. On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 8:38 AM 'Grahame' via neonixie-l < neonixie-l@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hi > > I have a Brother PTE300VP - cost was £50 in the UK by waiting for an > "offer" to appear. Here's a tear down of a label cartridge and short run > through the capabilities by Big Clive > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2SRePOg4VM > > Grahame > On 08/06/2022 00:32, Mac Doktor wrote: > > My collection of Nixie tubes, magic eyes and everything else you can name. > has grown to the point where I need to get serious about storage. One > aspect of this is labelling things. I'm tired of writing on boxes with a > Sharpie. > > I really like the capabilities of this Epson series: > > > https://www.amazon.com/LABELWORKS-LW-PX300-Industrial-Label-Maker/dp/B08JQMFZ6F > > https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JQMJ7RD > > > I know there's cheaper stuff out there and the profit is in selling tape > cartridges (*à la* printer ink) but this thing prints on heat-shrink > tubing. > > So what are you guys using? > > > Terry Bowman, KA4HJH > "The Mac Doctor" > > https://www.astarcloseup.com > > “...the book said something astonishing, a very big thought. The stars, it > said, were suns but very far away. The Sun was a star but close up.”—Carl > Sagan, "The Backbone Of Night", *Cosmos*, 1980 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/795AB7A6-4296-4B7B-9980-B375454A617F%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/795AB7A6-4296-4B7B-9980-B375454A617F%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/b3e2c850-9e76-8c29-fe37-d28231b2cb3f%40googlemail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/b3e2c850-9e76-8c29-fe37-d28231b2cb3f%40googlemail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CALiMYrvU%2BJXAk18eDnyb0y3V_7dDXXzF7ce8CYevnKddNNMRDA%40mail.gmail.com.
