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| tooki:
--- Quote from: shabaz on August 17, 2024, 12:13:05 am --- --- 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 --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- 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! --- End quote --- It is not a Zebra. The Wago only resembles the Zebra insofar as they are both share the basic body plan of midsize desktop label printers. None of the details in any way look alike. On the other hand, it’s a dead ringer for the GoDEX RT230i, including in fundamental specs, as well as details like the shapes of latches and control panel layout. Without a doubt, that’s the printer the WAGO is based on. But the print mechanism might be slightly modified to allow it to feed much narrower and much thicker materials than the GoDEX can. (The thickness is accommodated by having different rollers to swap in, some with grooves to “countersink” thick materials.) Wago’s optional cutter accessory is completely different from GoDEX’s, probably to be able to cut thicker materials. |
| chrisc:
--- Quote from: tooki on August 16, 2024, 11:12:52 pm ---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. --- End quote --- I second this. I dicked around with various label printers over the past 20 years until I decided to fork out for a Brother PT-E550WVP. The tapes are ultra-cheap if you buy generic and the Flexible ID tape sticks and stays stuck when the cable flexes. No non-stretchable cable labels can achieve that. It also handles printing on heat-shrink tube-type labels if you want to go that way, though note their widest heat-shrink (24mm) is not quite wide enough to fit over the end of an RJ45 that has a boot fitted :-\ OP, these printers are beasts - they can print dozens of labels at once with only one single leader as they have the ability to do a half-cut (slice through the label material while leaving the backing intact). You can set spacing and auto-increment of labels and as such print a single label for a 24-port Ethernet switch or a fuse board. They also have one really interesting tape called the "Stencil". When printed the part that would normally form letters is in fact removed from the tape. Hence if you stick it on something you can etch it or label it with ink directly. Haven't tried etching glass with it yet but the usual electro-etching of metal works fine. You then remove and discard the tape. There's a decent keyboard (which is what I use most of the time), a WiFi interface and USB also. They seem to be selling for around AU$250 at the moment, which is what I paid a few years ago so the price seems stable. I've attached the current tape catalog and tape technical data in case it's of interest to readers of this thread. |
| tooki:
The Flexible ID tapes aren't actually stretchy, though. It really surprised me when I first tried them. They just don't have "memory" of their unbent, flat state like the regular tapes do. Those want to flatten out eventually. The Flexible ID tapes are happy to stay wrapped tightly or bent around a tight corner (even with only a small length on one side). There actually is a 31mm heat shrink tube (HSe-261E). Not sure why Brother's own tape overview omits it! Of course, the PT-E500 series can't print them, since it maxes out at 24mm. You need a PT-P900 series or PT-E800W. |
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