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| Ed.Kloonk:
My Dymo which was bought before we knew about the shitcanery but prolly still possesses it, works OK but the tape doesn't like to stick to cat5. Well it does for a while. Annoying when you find them all laying on the floor. >:( |
| Black Phoenix:
I was looking for label makers back in 2018 and wanted the Brother PT-E550. A friend's company has gone bust and he gave me a new Dyno XTL300 he had in the warehouse as a spare. I could not say no. Their cable wrap tags are very good in terms of staying on the cables but too expensive. Don't know if that model have compatible tapes other than the Dymo official ones since I left it in Portugal before moving. Currently when I have a work that needs labels I just rent one via Taobao, it includes the tapes I will use (I say what tapes I need) and return it after the work is done, while I can keep the tapes I didn't use fully (the ones I return unopen I get a refund of part the rental price). Then next time I just rent the label if the tapes I need are the ones I have and finish them. Although I want to buy this time the Brother I was looking before. |
| AVGresponding:
--- Quote from: Gregg on October 15, 2022, 08:35:39 pm --- --- Quote from: dunkemhigh on October 15, 2022, 10:42:05 am --- --- Quote ---With a Brother printer, and not a Dymo one, of course... --- End quote --- Is there a practical difference? --- End quote --- I like to use my Brother label makers with the computer interface to make long strings of labels that reduce waste of the expensive label material. Also the program allows me to copy, paste and edit individual parts of the string of labels saving a lot of time. --- End quote --- I save the offcuts for making handwritten/temporary labels. |
| Red Squirrel:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on October 16, 2022, 01:04:44 am ---My Dymo which was bought before we knew about the shitcanery but prolly still possesses it, works OK but the tape doesn't like to stick to cat5. Well it does for a while. Annoying when you find them all laying on the floor. >:( --- End quote --- I have yet to find a way to label small cables like cat5. I have a Brother and even with that one the labels always fall off after a while, it's really annoying. |
| Whales:
EDIT: I most post some pics later Are you guys installing your labels along the cables (axially) or wrapping them around the cables (hanging off a bit like a flag)? I normally do the latter, it's uglier but it means the label adhesive is sticking to label adhesive, so it's much less likely to fall of. You do however have to write the same thing twice on the same label, with spaces in between, so both sides of the flag have writing. Aligning the flag isn't too hard once you have done it a few times (put the centre on the cable, align and stick the ends together, "push" the seal towards the cable, trim any slight mismatch on the ends with scissors). EDIT: An axial alternative I have seen are printing small labels on standard paper, cutting them out and using clear heatshrink to hold the to the cable. You can probably do this with existing label-making machine labels too. Doesn't help if your CAT cables are pre-terminated however :( |
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