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Anybody have experience with label printers? The classic one of course is Dymo but I truly hate how they’ve gone all proprietary with their labels. The series 5 printers have rfid chips on the rolls(!) so zero chance of using 3rd party labels.

I’m seeing there are thermal label printers as well, requiring no ink, which seems appealing, but also very nostalgic for me. Believe it or nor I had a thermal printer in the 1980s, for my Sinclair ZX81.

So what I’m really asking I suppose is if there’s anyone who could recommend a label printer, or knows what to especially watch out for.

Use-cases: address labels, name tags, labels on storage boxes, labelling various plugs and devices.

I realised I could have been more clear in saying I was thinking about desktop label printers rather than handheld ones, but I have always been a big fan of the handheld ones as well so I truly don’t mind seeing examples of them here as well 😊

🔗 Originally posted on Akkoma

19 Apr 2026, 12:09
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