On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:10 PM, Meenoo Shivdasani wrote: > If you want to label cables (professionally), then I recommend Brady.
When this topic comes up, historically, I'm usually among the first to spout off about how the Brady TLS2200 is, hands down, the greatest label printer we've ever used. The problem we have with the Brady product is cost. Not of the printer, but of the labels. Between ribbons and labels, 250 labels can run well over a hundred dollars in materials costs. When we recently rolled out a new facility, the local contractor, who we hadn't worked with before, showed up with SHEETS of cable-labels, using materials and software from Panduit. They are printed using standard laser- printers or inkjet-printers, and come in letter-size sheets like one might expect. Now, we're in the process of deploying using both methods. We have a Brady in the cabinets for "one-off" labeling jobs, so there's no excuse for them not to get labeled. But when we want to label both ends of 20-30 new cables, we will use the MUCH cheaper Panduit sheets, which are functionally identical, and fedex those to the data-center for the Colo staff to apply to the cables. We're talking pennies per label as opposed to over a dollar per label. Cheers, D _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
