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Label Printer For Small Stickers For Small Cables

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artag:
With one manufacturer's labels (not sure if Dymo or Brother) I found the polyester label didn't like to crease around a very small radius. The result was that it wouldn't stick in roll manner at at all and if placed as a flag the crease would unstick itself. The same manufacturer also offered a paper label and this was fine though it may be less resistant to washing.

Before these label makers were available we used to print or write labels on paper and then place them inside clear heatshrink.  This is more fiddly but completely protects the writing as the label is on the inside rather than outside of the heatshrink.

tooki:

--- Quote from: artag on August 16, 2024, 04:18:01 pm ---With one manufacturer's labels (not sure if Dymo or Brother) I found the polyester label didn't like to crease around a very small radius. The result was that it wouldn't stick in roll manner at at all and if placed as a flag the crease would unstick itself. The same manufacturer also offered a paper label and this was fine though it may be less resistant to washing.

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The regular Brother TZe tapes will eventually try to revert to flat when applied to small radiuses on corners or cables. The “Flexible ID” tapes (TZe-FX series) look and feel the same, but are made of a different material that doesn’t revert to flat. Brother recommends the Flexible ID labels for all cable labeling. I actually don’t know why you wouldn’t use them for everything; I can’t see any aspect in which they’re inferior to the standard ones, and the difference in cost is minimal.

Brother’s own durability data doesn’t indicate any application where the Flexible ID tape performs worse than standard, and several where it does better: https://www.brother.eu/-/media/product-downloads/devices/nordics/eu_en/labelling-machines/2022-tze-tapes-booklet-160-x-227mm_eng_web.pdf

I have also found mention of a TZe-SL series of “self-laminating” tapes specifically for labeling network cables, which look like they might be ones with opaque base tape only on one part, so that the clear tape wraps over the printing multiple times.

See also: https://www.brother.eu/-/media/product-downloads/devices/nordics/eu_en/pro-tape/a5-civ-tape-label-catalogue_v3_eng_jun24_web.pdf


--- Quote from: artag on August 16, 2024, 04:18:01 pm ---Before these label makers were available we used to print or write labels on paper and then place them inside clear heatshrink.  This is more fiddly but completely protects the writing as the label is on the inside rather than outside of the heatshrink.

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Sure. I have done the same. But for most cables, unnecessary since all the relevant TZe tapes are laminated already. Good trick for making the HSe heat shrink printing more durable.

tooki:

--- Quote from: nctnico on August 11, 2024, 03:47:02 pm ---iring.
In my experience the Brother / Dymo labels are less suitable for marking wires as the glue tends to let go.

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Using the regular tapes or the Flexible ID tapes Brother specifically recommends for wires?

tooki:

--- Quote from: BeBuLamar on August 11, 2024, 02:42:24 pm ---This is not cheap but it will do nice jobs for wires marking including the heat shrink type.
https://www.wago.com/us/marking/thermal-transfer-printer/p/258-5107

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Another department at work has one of those the old version of that.* It seems like one of the most cost-effective printers of its type, in that both the machine and its consumables are quite competitively priced. (Especially if you can order consumables directly from WAGO and negotiate a good discount.)

It’s one of the printers that ejects the cut end of the roll of labels/tags quite far, making you think it’ll waste a lot, but then it retracts it back in to print right at the cut end.


*the new version, aside from having a different color enclosure, appears to differ only in having a more powerful internal controller board that allows for unlimited marking strip length.

shabaz:

--- Quote from: tooki on August 16, 2024, 11:23:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: BeBuLamar on August 11, 2024, 02:42:24 pm ---This is not cheap but it will do nice jobs for wires marking including the heat shrink type.
https://www.wago.com/us/marking/thermal-transfer-printer/p/258-5107

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Another department at work has one of those. It seems like one of the most cost-effective printers of its type, in that both the machine and its consumables are quite competitively priced. (Especially if you can order consumables directly from WAGO and negotiate a good discount.)

It’s one of the printers that ejects the cut end of the roll of labels/tags quite far, making you think it’ll waste a lot, but then it retracts it back in to print right at the cut end.

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Nice looking device. I wonder if Zebra make it for Wago, the design looks so similar to Zebra TLP paper label printers etc. If so, it will probably last forever, knowing how reliable the Zebra machines are!

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